Posted on 04/02/2009 7:02:07 AM PDT by erkyl
Texas Secession - Washington continues to ignore the 10th amendment. Until Texas independence, Washington's mandates on transportation, education, housing, health care and family issues will continue. Texas GOP Platform page 8 and 20:"We support state sovereignty reserved under the Tenth Amendment and oppose mandates beyond the scope of federal authority. We support downsizing of the federal government in order to re-establish states’ rights."
Economy - Washington requires Texans to pay for their corporate welfare bailout schemes. The debt is equal to $175,000 per person. For every dollar sent to Washington from Texans, we get back 94%; while New Mexico gets back 203%. Texas GOP Platform page 23:"Corporate Welfare/Business Subsidies – We oppose all corporate welfare that supports continued inefficient businesses. We encourage our government to allow a free market economy to prevail both domestically and internationally."
National Security, Immigration and Trade Agreements are inseparably linked - Washington refuses to protect Texas from illegal foreign invaders. Many Texans are upset about NAFTA, WTO, SPP and other international agreements that Washington has gotten us into. North American Union is coming unless we act. Texas GOP Platform page 23:"We strongly oppose and call on Federal and State officials to place high priority on the withdrawal of the United States from the Security and Prosperity Partnership and the formation of the North American Union."
Education - Washington & Austin usurps the authority of local school districts. While spending $75B to control local education. Texas GOP Platform page 8 and 16: "We call for abolition of the U. S. Department of Education and prohibition of transfer of any of its functions to any other agency. Abolish the School Property tax. District superintendents and their employees should be made solely accountable to their locally elected boards."
Health and Human Services - The $53B spending by this Texas government agency drives up health care cost for the rest of us. Texas GOP Platform page 8 and 15: "Reduce the indigent healthcare burden for counties and local government. Free market principles and competition shall be encouraged in health care."
Abortion - Washington usurped Texas sovereignty in the Roe v. Wade decision. Texas GOP Platform page 8: "Life begins at the moment of fertilization and ends at the point of natural death."
War on Poverty - Since 1965 the U.S. government has spent more than $11 trillion fighting poverty without success. Texas GOP Platform page 15: "Welfare Reform - The current system encourages dependency on government and robs individuals and generations of healthy motivation and self respect."
War on Drugs and Alcohol - Law Enforcement Against Prohibition: "The War on Drugs has cost taxpayers over a trillion dollars, we are approaching 40 million arrests for nonviolent drug offenses." County governments in Texas should determine the drug and alcohol policy not Washington. Texas GOP Platform page 8: "We understand most crime is local, and the states, reserve law enforcement authority under the Tenth Amendment."
Texas Military Forces - Texas Military Forces have be conscripted by Washington to fight undeclared wars. Texans need these volunteers in Texas to protect Texas.Texas GOP Platform page 8 and 15: "We charge the President to cancel the state of national emergency and charge Congress to repeal the War Powers Act and end our declared state of emergency. Never deploying the military except against invasion or threat to our vital interests."
Trans Texas Corridor - Rick Perry continues to support the TTC thus ignoring the people of Texas. Criticisms include the high cost, environmental damage and property confiscation. Texas GOP Platform page 23: "We emphatically oppose the Trans-Texas Corridor in any form or manner. We call for full investigation of any public officials authorizing any form of eminent domain for the Trans-Texas Corridor and foreign funding."
Sounds good to me... with that platform he can’t be a gun grabber.
Being from Amarillo is, in the eyes of most other Texans, anything BUT a recommendation.
The only worse Texas town to be from is El Paso.
** ducking and covering **
Oooooh, you beat me to it! Nicely played.
We will never break up the Republic Of Texas. If anything, we'll take back eastern Colorado & New Mexico back to the Rio Grande.
Met him at a Glenn Beck 912 Project meetup. You don’t want to follow him.
I will go with you.
Actually, that's not quite right- Forty million of them are ILLEGAL ALIENS.
Wow! You found a picture of him, too. That was fast.
please elaborate...
I personally know Larry Kilgore and his wife Valerie and the children. He was a friend of mine for about five or so years. Very nice family, but I guarantee you that he is Extreme (with a capital “E”). Conservative, yes. Christian, yes. But has some of the most extreme political views I have ever encountered. On capital punishment, he goes well beyond what I would be in agreement with. Death to homosexuals. Death to many criminals of lesser crimes. Definitely rule from a theocratic form of government. Many laws imposed. Such as execution of adulterers. Corporal punishment of violators, such as lashing illegals immigrants caught. I can’t remember all the extremist views he has, but they are many and rather shocking. I enjoy him as a friend, but I would never vote for him. He would take the state of Texas down a road that would be regretted. My honest and humble opinion.
Okay, then...never mind.
Why can’t we get a decent secessionist to run? dagnabbit.
You had me at “Secessionist”
We must never, ever divide because if we do, all five states would be fairly powerless. Texas, as it is today, is perfectly capable of supporting itself and has a wealth of natural resources: shoreline and ports (Houston), oil (throughout the state) and refineries (Beaumont and Houston), cattle (all parts of Texas) and stockyards (Ft. Worth), agriculture (East & Central Texas), a steel mill (Lone Star Steel in East Texas), business and financial center (Dallas/Ft. Worth), international airport (DFW), we have our own electrical grid, plus windfarms in West Texas. This is just what I can think of off the top of my head.
Can you imagine Texas being free from US oil restrictions? It would be “Drill Here, Refine Here All the Time!” We could sell our oil to the foreigners in Washington, DC!
The Republic of Texas must never be divided!
Athens is in East Texas.
I know, my grandparents and much of the family on my father’s side lived there. I just wondered if it might be included in the “North”, as oppposed to the “East”. I like it there and would move back if possible.
Thanks,
AR
He has a website and I think he looks like a decent choice considering the other two candidates.
The post from Heartlander2 is a lie. Please contact the Kilgore campaign for truth.
What part of my comments is a lie? I speak from upclose personal experience with the man. (Hardy Har! Since when do you get truth from a campaign?)
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