Update: "Debra Medina is scary ..." email response

Here is an email response from a friend in Las Vegas. He has a wife, 2 kids, very good job, home, and is a "typical American".

I am going to give this friend some effort and see how it goes. Looking to hear some response points that would be better than mine. What would be your responsive strategy towards educating this individual?

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Debra Medina is scary and so is most of Texas politics. Debra and others there talk about getting rid of the major sources that Texas now has for raising revenue to support the general well-being of it’s citizens. I ‘m not hearing a comprehensive plan for substituting that lost revenue from property taxes and other forms of taxation. Though aligning oneself with the causes of the original “patriots” from the 1700’s seems like a noble cause. The truth is things have changed quite radically from that time. Immigrants have poured in, horses have made way for motorized vehicles and all the structures that surround that accomplishment. There is more to learn in schools besides Bible versus, and “arms” are no longer single-load one bullet jobs, protecting the farmer from vandals. One gun can wipe out a whole block of people in two minutes. Maybe we should be less concerned with the person next door that doesn’t share our faith or our sexual orientation or our color and more suspicious of the gun collector who is stocking up for doomsday. What I think I’m seeing and hearing from Debra and others like her is that our country has been overrun by minorities from other cultures—that if we didn’t “provide” for these other people—we would have the capital to provide for “the real Americans”, I’m only guessing. And since when has it been a better idea for all those concerned to put into office people that have less education, less experience and less exposure to the outside world then we ourselves have? The world is too complicated to have “everyman’s neighbor” running it.

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My response 1-10:

Hey John, I recall myself feeling much the same about things.

Just for information, Debra is married to a Hispanic individual. So far, the freedom renaissance seems quite devoid of racism from what I personally experience.

(image of the Medina family)

There are other videos of Debra with much information and a revenue plan. The Laffer Curve - http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/2009/05/18/revenge-of-the-laf... is involved with this, which I too am putting forth the effort to understand.

Remember after the stimulus this past March when our government was telling us to spend money for our economy to survive? Does that sound logical? This advice comes from our government “who cares” about our families. We really can’t afford things (mostly inferior products and using debt to purchase) because of the loss of our purchasing power. Check this short and simple article with a graph on the loss of our purchasing power. - http://evoorhees.blogspot.com/2009/07/record-of-federal-rese.... I attached a few other graphs. This is a root cause.

Basically, all issues have money involved in some way. Bailouts, stimulus, health care, financial crisis, housing crisis, rising prices … are symptoms. So finding out what also feeds the symptoms is a 2nd root cause - fractional reserve banking. Here is a good 10 minute video if you want to check it out at a later time - http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4578903985916741358#

I cannot afford and therefore do not have health insurance. I also do not want the government to "fix" this for me. This is because I have learned from experiencing - our failed Keynesian economic system, and the poor historical results of big government intervention. The citizens are burdened, demoralized, and more poor. We are experiencing the middle class losing its wealth.

Not sure what is meant by doomsday… Do you recall the chaos during Hurricane Katrina, where some members of the police force “went AWOL” from their oath of defending the people’s rights? It seems common sense dictated to them that they should go home and protect their own family with their firearms. It is our natural right to have a chance to defend our ourselves. I own firearms, as everyone actually should. Hopefully I won’t ever have to use any for self defense. If something did arise, it would be unfortunate that unarmed neighbors could be at the mercy of someone else’s aggression. There is plenty of history describing what happens when the citizens are unarmed and those in power are. Here’s a short article on force vs reason - http://munchkinwrangler.blogspot.com/2007/03/why-gun-is-civi... and this good short video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nf1OgV449g .

“…less educationg, less experience and less exposure … The world is too complicated to have “everyman’s neighbor” running it.” – Can you elaborate on this?

Why not use self-determination and also gain knowledge from the facts of what made this nation free and prosperous – understanding liberty and free markets (Austrian economics). I’m glad that I have broke free (by reading, researching, keeping an open mind, and using logic and common sense) from the repressive socialist influence we all have been fed for our lifetimes. We have been mislead that man’s talents and goodness is not enough to solve problems, but government is. Those that promote liberty are cast as “not caring for people” which is false. We are trying to get people to once again believe in themselves and to help others besides solving root issues.

Take a peek at my website www.libertypursuit.com and scroll down the center. There is Judge Napolitano’s – “Rights vs Goods”, the two depression era economic articles, the Philosophy of Liberty video ... - On the left, the short Inflation, CPI video that is very good and simple to understand. These are where some of the answers lie so your children can have a chance to live in a free and peaceful society.

Hey, how about watching Debra debate the governor and the senator this Thursday? - http://texasdebates.org/index.php

John Lennon seems to have done some homework - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yRh5NNiFG0 Video - 1 min, 19 seconds

Tony