This makes sense to me

[Jo McDonald]

I thought some of you might enjoy this.  A "good ol farm boy from western Oklahoma" writes a column like this each week. 


"What's Under My Hat" by Monte Tucker----------January 28, 2008

Howdy friends and neighbors.  Come on first Tuesday in November!  I have already had about all of the Presidential election I can stand.  Surely, somewhere out there in this great nation is a "good ol' boy or gal," that is worth voting for.  You know, someone that has actually done something, not just talked about what they think they have done.  It's only the first quarter in the game between the R's and the D's  Both sides keep talking about time for change.  Just what are they going to change?  They obviously haven't changed the game of politics.  Billary and Bama Lama Ding Dong boost the word "change" every time I see the media put their face on my boob tube.

The first place they could start changing things would be on the Senate floor that they're already on.  Just go and look at their voting records for the last several months and you will find they aren't showing up to vote.You know, the job they campaigned so hard to get by promising "change,"  but they just don't have the time.  McCain isn't immune from this either.

Let's talk "change."  What in the world do these hot air compressors think they are going to change and why?  Again, I'm just a professional bovine relocation specialist (it's the 21st century, we used to call them cowboys).  But the way I see it from Sunny Point , Oklahoma , how are they going to change the greatest nation in the world?  All of the candidates are demanding we must change!  OK.  I wake up a free man every morning and I'm free to do anything that is morally right or I can do nothing.  If I choose to do something productive that day, well I can whistle at my dog, start up my ol' tan feed truck that I bought with the help of a free enterprising banking system I chose to use.  Plus, there's the fact that other free Americans assembled this truck, and the companies that bought, sold and hauled parts and supplies to make that pickup possible.  As I turn the key, "Ol' Tan" fires up on diesel fuel that a mean, nasty, big oil company conveniently made very accessible to me.  I turn out of my land that I can freely own, onto a county maintained road that leads to any point in North America I would choose to go to that day. Also, in this country, I am free to own livestock and free to care for them so that the livestock will return a profit so I can repay my bank, buy my feed and fuel, and provide for my family.  On Sunday Morning (or any other day that ends in "Y") my family is free to drive from our house on a ribbon of roads that lead to the Church of our choice and worship the real owner of all things we know, God.  We can give praise to Him for all and especially for Jesus.

Why can't these hopefuls for the highest-ranking governmental seat see that it is just that simple?  Provide me infrastructure and protect me from these knot-headed whack's that think they can take away our freedom. Billary,  Bama Mama or McNobrain aren't going to change anything.  The foundations of this great country can't be changed by one person, no matter how much they think they can.  As Americans, we have the right to succeed or fail and try again as we please.  As a free man, I'm getting good at failing but I get smarter when I try again.

When presidential candidates tout change, the only thing I see in this country that needs changing is them.  Life in America is good and for those that don't think so, you're free to leave at any time, go to another country of your choice and try to change it.

I'm Monte Tucker, and that is what's under my professional bovine relocation specialist hat.  Wait, I'm not changing, that is what's under my COWBOY hat!

Remember our freedom is not free; try to wear a red shirt on Fridays to show support for our troops.

[T. Sackett]

     I will have to agree with this, Jo.  Here are some of my ramblings---- I am wondering if the ballots will have  "None of the above" printed on them for this next election..............the presidential contenders that are running for election seem to think they are a hot potato on a china plate, but in stark reality they are nothing but a cold, left over, dried up potato on a paper plate........every election time, it's the same old, old story, only a different verse added.........it's no wonder politics turns me off.

[Wilma]

Don't you like those nicknames for our leading candidates?  Very suitable.

[Roma Jean Turner]

  I agree, I love the names, very appropriate.

[flo]

There may be a place to "write in" and I think I'll write in Monte Tucker.  Sounds like my kind of level headed AMERICAN

[Teresa]

Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and
then campaign against them. Have you ever wondered why, if both the Democrats and the
Republicans are against deficits, we have deficits? Have you
ever wondered why, if all the politicians are against inflation and
high taxes, we have inflation and high taxes?
You and I don't propose a federal budget. The president does.
You and I don't have the Constitutional authority to vote on
appropriations. The House of Representatives does. You and I
don't write the tax code. Congress does. You and I don't set fiscal
policy. Congress does. You and I don't control monetary policy. The
Federal Reserve Bank does.

One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one president and nine
Supreme Court justices - 545 human beings out of the 300
million - are directly, legally, morally and individually
responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country.

I excluded the members of the Federal Reserve Board because that
problem was created by the Congress. In 1913, Congress delegated
its Constitutional duty to provide a sound currency to a
federally chartered but private central bank. I excluded all the special
interests and lobbyists for a  sound reason They have no legal authority.
They have no ability to coerce a senator, a congressman or a president to do one cotton-
picking thing. I don't care if they offer a politician $1 million
dollars in cash. The politician has the power to accept or
reject it.  No matter what the lobbyist promises, it is the legislator's
responsibility to determine how he votes.

CONFIDENCE CONSPIRACY Those 545 human beings spend much of
their energy convincing you that what they did is not their
fault. They cooperate in this common con regardless of party. 
What separates a politician from a normal human being is an excessive amount of gall.
No normal human being would have
the gall of a SPEAKER, who stood up and criticized a president ALONE
for creating deficits.  The president can only propose a budget. He cannot force the
Congress to accept it. The Constitution, which is the supreme
law of the land, gives sole responsibility to the House of
Representatives for originating and approving appropriations and
taxes.
Who is the speaker of the House? The leader of the majority
party. She and fellow Democrats, not the president, can approve
any budget they want. If the president vetoes it, they can pass
it over his veto.
REPLACE THE SCOUNDRELS!
It seems inconceivable to me that a nation of 300 million cannot
replace 545 people who stand convicted -- by present facts - of
incompetence and irresponsibility.  I can't think of a single domestic problem,
from an unfair tax code to defense overruns, that is not traceable directly to
those 545 people.  When you fully grasp the plain truth that 545 people
exercise power of the federal government, then it must follow
that what exists is what they want to exist.  If the tax code is unfair,
it's because they want it unfair.
If the budget is in the red, it's because they want it in the red. If
the Marines are in IRAQ, it's because they want them in IRAQ.
There are no insoluble government problems. Do not let these
545 people shift the blame to bureaucrats, whom they hire and
whose jobs they can abolish; to lobbyists, whose gifts and advice they
can reject; to regulators, to whom they give the power to regulate
and from whom they can take this power.
Above all, do not let them con you into the belief that there
exist disembodied mystical forces like "the economy," "inflation"
or "politics" that prevent them from doing what they take an oath to
do.
Those 545 people, and they alone, are responsible. They, and
they alone, have the power. They, and they alone, should be held
accountable by the people who are their bosses - provided the voters
have the gumption to manage their own employees.

We should vote all of them out of office and clean up their mess.
However, it is all OUR fault that we have allowed those 545
to do as they have!

[Calibritwo]

This is a terrific article,
I am in agreement to write this man in!
He tells it just like it is, and when do we ever hear that from our poloticians. Good for you ,
and thanks Jo for posting this, we could use more of this mans wise wirds.!

[archeobabe]

I agree with Teresa on her last reply.  I have been stating along to replace those in Congress to make the changes.  I still believe that the House of Representatives and the Senate should serve two terms just like the president instead of being re-elected into office until they die in office.  Look that how many of our congressmen and women are over 70.

[Wilma]

Hey, over 70 isn't old.  Your mother is over 70.

[archeobabe]

But you are smarter than any person in the congress, young or old.