Posted by DebbieMcKee on 11/04/09
Last updated 11/06/09

11.4.09  http://www.heraldbanner.com/opinion/local_story_309003304.html

Dear Editor,

This is a response to Mr. Jaco’s letter about taxpayer funded health care. That’s nice that your family has been so well cared for by medicare, etc. However we should look at the realities of expanding or even continuing such programs- yes, health care must be paid for- but the idea of taxpayers footing the bill is a rather new one - only a few decades old. The consequences of such programs are unfunded liabilities that our country has no way to pay for, to the tune of 60 +/- trillion dollars. That means we’ve obligated ourselves to that as a future debt, promise to provide and pay for services we can‘t afford.

Whatever happened to personal responsibility, the free market and real charity? I’ll tell you what’s happened to it - the federal and state government came in and gradually took over just about every aspect of our lives. We look to big brother or nanny state instead of the person in the mirror.

 The more government has entangled itself in health care the more the costs have risen and efficiency and quality has gone down. What has government ever taken control of that has IMPROVED?

 Why am I, an uninsured person paying for the healthcare of EVERYONE else? Through corporations and businesses passing their expenses to consumers (me) and government passing the programs’ costs to taxpayers (me) - I pay for other’s care and cannot afford my own. There is something wrong with this picture. And no the answer isn’t for me to get in line for Medicaid (which I’m sure our family would qualify for, but we wouldn’t dream of asking others to pay for something that is OUR responsibility!).

 Healthcare choices should be left to the individual. No one should be forced -YES - forced to pay for someone else’s personal choices or consequences from those choices.

Imagine how much money we’d have in our pockets if we weren’t forced to subsidize - with everything we buy and taxed on every dime we earn - the care of others.

We could afford our own insurance if we chose to, whatever level we decided and from whatever provider we wanted. Like buying auto or home insurance. Insurance should cover the major catastrophes in life. Every sniffle, flat tire, routine oil change or burned out light bulb shouldn’t be paid for by insurance.

 Then we’d also have more money in our pockets to help the truly needy with charity. Which should be in the hands of community and churches, NOT the government.

We need to get back to taking care of ourselves- we do a much better job.

The trillions in promised future benefits is unsustainable. We must work toward removing government all together from those areas of life not authorized by the Constitution and not impose further burdens of debt on our people - such burdens will be born by children not yet born!

 Like Melody Brunson’s op-ed about changing buying habits and Ms. Eades letters about helping one another. We must start being more responsible for self , family and neighbors. And strengthen our churches and communities.

 Our debt based economy will continue to come crashing down. We’ve been plundered by Austin, Washington, Wall Street and the Federal Reserve (as well as the international bankers). And the looting hasn’t stopped. You think the dollar losing 95% of its purchasing power in the last 90 years is bad, just wait until the inflation which will result from the recent printing of trillions more in monopoly money comes home to roost. We will be the ones to pick up the pieces, we CANNOT look to the ones who’ve done this to us to take care of us.

This will mean a paradigm shift. Back 100 years or more would be a good place to start. Before the Federal Reserve Banking system, before the AMA censuring alternatives to healthcare, before socialism and fascism, before U.S. global empire building, before Federal indoctrination institutions (government controlled public schools), before the propaganda machines run by a few corporations.

 It’s not left vs. right folks, it’s tyranny vs. the people.

 Personal responsibility and local control are the prescriptions we need.

Posted 11/04/09 Mike in Virginia Fredericksburg, VA

Outstanding letter. Thanks for sharing it with your fellow C4L members.

Posted 11/06/09 DebbieMcKee Campbell, TX

Thanks, Mike! After I quickly wrote it and sent it off I read a really good article in American Free Press, expanding some of the same points. I really wished I could have edited it and improved it!

Posted 11/06/09 slamar Canton, TX

Way to go Debbie, very well stated. You have an ability to write, glad your using your talents are here at C4L.

Posted by DebbieMcKee on 09/15/09
Last updated 09/16/09

Small turnout, but we met new folks and had fun anyway.   We visited Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson's office when we first arrived at 4 PM  to make sure they would be open closer to 5 when we brought in the petition signatures we told the secretary we were there supporting HR 1207 and wanted the Congresswoman to co-sponsor it.  She didn't think she'd heard of it, ( I thought, boy the constituents aren't making enough phone calls!).  Anyway, thankfully 2 of the guys who showed up WERE her constituents so we were covered.  We had 5 of us outside her office building holding signs, we got some pretty good response from the passersby.
 
When we went in just before 5 PM with the petitions, a letter and a packet of stuff I brought (JBS movies, AFTF, Fiat Empire, a Republic Magazine, etc.) the secretary told us that they had heard from DC and she did sign on!!!!
 
That was VERY exciting to hear! 
 
We left there and some of us went to the Fed, we were joined by others during the course of the evening.  All total, there were 9 of us and Adrienne, Sharrod and I were there for 3 1/2 hours!   We really got a LOT of good response tonight, even the Loomis truck driver who just left the FED with his police escort from OK honked and waved! 
 
I got more hassle from the Fed security guards than ever before, it was weird.  They kept trying to get me to tell them what group we were with.  I kept saying we were just concerned citizens, WE THE PEOPLE.   At EBJ's office we were officially from Campaign for Liberty, but at the Fed bank, we were just grassroots, concerned people in my book.  We did tell one security guard to go to auditthefed.com  for info (that was on a couple of the signs and he was trying to read them)  He kept trying to get info from me so he could have their public relations people contact me.  I said that wasn't necessary, and told him I'd been on the tour,   I did give him my name though.  (I didn't have any desire to sit down with a FED PR person.)
 
I guess maybe they are starting to wonder, here we are 10 months later, still demonstrating. 
 
Debbie McKee
interim coordinator Texas CFL
Dallas End the Fed organizer

Posted 09/23/09 doctor jones New York, NY

Hey Debbie, heard you became the new state coordinator in Texas! Congrats! If you haven't seen me around lately it's not because I don't care but because I moved to New York in June. We're doing big things up here. Hopefully, if we do our job, the midterm elections will vindicate us. -Dustin

Posted by DebbieMcKee on 09/07/09

Hello Hardworking Audit the Fed "ers"!!!  

 On September 15th we'll hit as many district offices as possible!  If you are close enough and can make it to Dallas, please do join us (we have a Federal Reserve Bank we'll be visiting for a sign wave afterwards)!   

 If you will contact me with the office you will be delivering to/rallying at, I will notify others in your district/area.  Let me know ASAP please to get the word out to everyone.  Also, please do everything you can to spread the word as well.  I can only reach those who see the email and the announcements. 

   Debbie McKee  

 (These locations were taken from their official websites, you may want to call the one you are planning to visit to verify the address before notifying me.) 

Mr. Al Green
TX-9th (D)

3003 South Loop West
Suite 460
Houston, TX, 77054
(713) 383-9234
(713) 383-9202

Mr. Ruben Hinojosa
TX-15th (D)

Edinburg Office
2864 West Trenton Road
Edinburg, TX 78539
Phone : (956) 682-5545
Fax: (956) 682-0141

Beeville Office
107 South St. Mary's Street
Beeville, Texas 78102
Phone : (361) 358-8400
Fax: (361) 358-8407

Mr. Silvestre Reyes
TX-16th (D)

310 North Mesa
Suite 400
El Paso, TX, 79901
(915) 534-4400
(915) 534-7426

Ms. Sheila Jackson Lee
TX-18th (D)

Houston Office
1919 Smith Street
Suite 1180
Houston, Texas 77002
(713) 655-0050 Phone
(713) 655-1612 Fax

Heights Office
420 West 19th Street
Houston, Texas 77008
(713) 861-4070

Acres Home Office
6719 West Montgomery
Suite 204
Houston, Texas 77091
(713) 691-4882

Fifth Ward Office
3300 Lyons Ave.
Suite 301
Houston, TX 77020
(713) 227-7740 Phone
(713) 227-7707 Fax

Mr. Charles A. Gonzalez
TX-20th (D)

San Antonio Office
B-124 Federal Building
727 East Durango
San Antonio, TX 78206-1286
Phone: (210)472-6195
Fax: (210)472-4009

Mr. Ciro Rodriguez
TX-23rd (D)

Del Rio

Fort Stockton
Pecos County Courthouse
103 West Callaghan
Fort Stockton, TX 79735
P: (432) 336-3975
F: (432) 336-3961

North San Antonio

Mr. Henry Cuellar
TX-28th (D)

602 E. Calton Road, Suite 2
Laredo, Texas 78041
phone: (956) 725-0639
fax: (956) 725-2647

320 N. Main Street, Suite 221
McAllen, Texas 78501
phone: (956) 631-4826
fax: (956) 631-4251

100 N. F.M. 3167
Rio Grande City, Texas 78582
phone: (956) 487-5603
fax: (956) 488-0952

615 E. Houston Street, Suite 451
San Antonio, Texas 78205
phone: (210)271-2851
fax: (210) 277-6671

100 S. Austin Street, Suite 1
Seguin, Texas 78155
phone: (830) 401-0457
fax: (830) 379-0984

Mr. Gene Green
TX-29th (D)
256 N. Sam Houston Pkwy. E., Suite 29
Houston, TX 77060
(281) 999-5879 tel
(281) 999-5716 fax

11811 I-10 East, Suite 430
Houston, TX 77029
(713) 330-0761 tel
(713) 330-0807 fax

909 Decker Drive, Suite 124
Baytown, TX 77520
(281) 420-0502 tel
(281) 420-0585 fax

Ms. Eddie Bernice Johnson
TX-30th (D)

3102 Maple Avenue
Suite 600
Dallas, TX, 75201
(214) 922-8885
(214) 922-7028

--
Debra Medina for TX Governor 2010!
For Life, Liberty and Prosperity!
www.medinafortexas.com

Posted by DebbieMcKee on 09/04/09

Free Market Foundation email letter

September 4, 2009
The President's Speech and the Rights of Parents and Students

 
Because of the concerns that many parents have regarding President Obama's Sept. 8 speech in public schools, FMF is taking action in protecting the rights of parents and students.  We've sent a national media release in order to speak out on the issue and defend anyone whose Constitutional rights are violated.  In addition to the U.S. Constitution, there is also specific Texas law protecting the rights of parents to opt their children out of instruction or activities which they oppose.
 
Your rights as a parent:
·         You may opt-out your child from such activities
·         You may request that your child receive an excused absence
 
The school's responsibility to you and your children:
·         The school shall not penalize your children for being excused from an activity
·         The school shall respect your decision as a parent
 
If you or someone you know has any difficulty in addressing these issues with your school district, please call our office at (972) 423-8889.  We live in a great country.  Our children are not "children of the state."  Parents have the ultimate responsibility and thus the authority to decide what is best for their children.
 
Visit our Texas Legislative Update blog  http://texaslegislativeupdate.wordpress.com/ to see our media release and what school districts in your area are doing.  We will continue to update the blog as more information comes out.

Posted by DebbieMcKee on 07/29/09

Local grassroots activists Debbie and Adrienne McKee joined delegates from all over the state at the Texas Liberty Convention in San Marcos this weekend to adopt by-laws, elect officers and choose directors for a new organization.  The Texas Liberty Campaign is now official.   

The mission of TLC is "... to restore our Republic as intended by the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States through the exercise of all our inherent individual rights as a free people in Texas. "  

 According to Debbie McKee "We are not a political party, we are a non-partisan, grassroots organization.    Our state organization exists to help regional  organizations and build coalitions."  That's a familiar message from McKee who has been busy with the local Tea Party effort.  

  McKee was chosen to chair the Training and Lectures committee, which is a natural for this former homeschool mom who has organized many educational film events at the Greenville library for the local Northeast Texas Liberty Campaign organization.   "Getting information to people is my passion.  We must take personal responsiblity to inform ourselves and it's our duty to share with others."  states McKee.   

 The Texas Liberty Campaign is an outgrowth of the nationwide Campaign for Liberty organization.  For more information call McKee at 903 450 6648 or email netxlc@gmail.com.

Posted 07/29/09 elkingrey Bowman, CA

That's awesome. First in the nation, too, right?