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March 22, 2010

Come Meet Van Irion This Weekend

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Cookout Invite
Gregg Juster, a leader in the Chattanooga Tea Party, the TN Tea Party Coalition, and the National Fiscal Conservative PAC, is hosting a cookout this Saturday for all our supporters. This will be a great time to get together, discuss the issues and plan for how we are going to take our country back from the strangle hold of Washington DC. We are inviting all our supporters and asking you to bring your friends and family to meet me and get to know me. Refreshments are graciously being provided by Gregg and DeeDee. So come out to support Van Irion 4 Congress, bring your friends and have a good time with us this Saturday, Mar 27th from 11:30am to 2:30pm. Take a minute to RSVP to Gregg Juster now at gregg@juster.com

The location is 55 E Main St #304, Chattanooga, TN 37408, 200 yds east of Market on Main, Park behind the building (3 story old brick warehouse), Walk through the gate and up the stairs (or elevator) to the third floor. If you need directions call 254-744-9562.
Health Care Bill
If you know me at all, you know my response is that it's unconstitutional. The federal government has no authority to regulate health care. This bill and all the shenanigans it took to get it passed should illustrate why. The framers of the Constitution didn't just arbitrarily say that most issues should be handled at the state or local level (10th Amendment); they had a very good reason for setting that model for how our country should run. The entire purpose of the Constitution was to protect one state from the whims of another state. If Oregon wants to provide health care to all their citizens they can decide to do that, but they should have no authority to make Tennesseans do the same. We were intended to have local control of such matter - if we didn't like how one state was run, we could move to another or we could seek redress at the state level. Thousands of Americans marched all weekend in DC seeking to be heard and they were soundly ignored. Redress by the individual on the federal level doesn't work, as it does on the state level. Now we have a federal government that ignores the Constitution. Now we have 219 representatives forcing their will on the vast majority of the country that loudly proclaimed we don't want government run health care. None of the East Tennessee Congressmen voted for this bill, yet all East Tennesseans are forced abide by the decision of Congressmen from Chicago, California, and New York.

The Role of the Federal Government 
I could go on about the details of the bill, such as in order to get those votes, promises were made that earmark our tax dollars to pet projects other states, or exempt some which puts an even higher burden on the rest that aren't exempt. Or that the bill forces all Americans to fund abortion while taking $500 billion from Medicare, all while our Medicare taxes won't go down. Or that taxes are assessed immediately while benefits don't start for another four years. This is devastating to our liberties and our economy, and it will start killing jobs immediately. But we must understand why it happened so that we can prevent it happening again and hopefully reverse this course in the future. The why is that there is a fundamental lack of understanding in Washington DC about the role of federal government. As one of my competitors in the race for the 3rd District said at the LiberTea debate, "Well if I knew the proper role of the federal government I'd write a book and be a millionaire." That is the problem; we continue to elect representatives that don't know. If they would just read and memorize the oath that they take, it's pretty simple, "that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help me God."
 
Where were the statesmen in this debate reminding the congress that they had no authority to introduce such a bill? Where were the statesmen appearing on every media outlet available to tell the American people that health care reform is an issue for the states, that federal government mandates have done nothing but increase cost and decrease options? Where were the statesmen going office to office with the citizens that rightly opposed the bill reminding the representatives of their oath? God willing I will be that statesman come November 2010.

If you have read this far and agree with me that we need a defender of the Constitution in DC, please join us Saturday at the home of Gregg and DeeDee Juster. Let your voice be heard, meet with those of like mind and let's plan for a revival of the Constitution in America. Email Gregg now and let him know you'll be there -gregg@juster.com 
 
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Mar 27th - 11:30am
Van Irion Cookout
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Posted by gid at March 22, 2010 01:53 PM
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