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Debbie McKee (DebbieMcKee) [Message] 1510 CR 4208 Campbell, TX 75422

We do things bigger and better in Texas and so sometimes that means things take us a little longer!  We are getting organized and WE WILL have a powerful state organization.  I'll update with news on the Texas Liberty Campaign as it becomes available.  

 For now, the executive board and committees are busy and you are welcome to join a meeting conference call or volunteer for a committee.  We don't have a website up yet, although that is a high priority, so for now you can see what's happening at:  http://www.meetup.com/tlc-board

Working Tirelessly for Liberty!

Debbie McKee

Interim CFL Coordinator

Greenville Herald Banner published my letter to the editor on healthcare Posted by DebbieMcKee

Posted 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.

Some guides to the Texas 2009 Constitutional Amendments Posted by DebbieMcKee

Posted 10/29/09

  The League of Women Voters of Texas 2009 Constitutional Amendments Election Voters Guide    http://www.lwvtexas.org/2009VG/2009CAVG[FINAL].pdf

 A Conservative Review of the 2009 Constitutional Amendments by Brent Chambers    http://files.meetup.com/1529739/TX%20Amendments.pdf

Texans for Fiscal Responsibility (Empower Texans)  most conservative guides lined up with this one.    http://www.empowertexans.com/nov_3_constitutional_amendment_election

Emails to Senators Hutchison and Cornyn in regards to the Federal Reserve Accountability Act Posted by doctormark77

Posted 10/20/09 Last updated 10/21/09

I just got the word about the Federal Reserve Accountability Act. This compromise is not going to do the job S604 will so it is not good enough for me. Both of my senators already are co-sponsors of S604, so hopefully nothing will change. I did not waste anytime though and threw together this email and sent it to both senators. Here it is, feel free to use it and/or modify it. The senator's name and my name have been removed.

Good Evening Senator [name],

First of all I would like to thank you for your co-sponsorship of S604, the Federal Reserve Sunshine Act of 2009. Our dollar is worth about four cents compared to what it was worth when this deplorable, unconstitutional central bank was created in 1913. This bank is doing whatever it pleases with taxpayer money, giving it to other banks, even foreign banks. The worst part is that title 31 of United States Code prevents the GAO from being able to tell us what the federal reserve is doing with taxpayer money. Your co-sponsorship of S604 shows me that you are as concerned about this as I am and that you actually, unlike many politicians, have my best interest at heart.

Secondly I would like to warn you about the Federal Reserve Accountability Act, Introduced October 20, 2009 today by Senators Jeff Merkley (D-OR) and Bob Corker (R-TN). This bill would permit an audit of the Fed's actions in the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) and similar high profile bailouts, but would not allow Congress to review the Fed's inflation of the money supply or the its agreements with foreign central banks. This compromise will simply not suffice. The federal reserve should not exist since it is not constitutional to begin with. I am aware that the fed was created by congress in 1913. I am however also aware that section eight of article one of our constitution begins to read, "The congress shall have power to..." not "The congress and all of it's creations shall have power to...". With this being said, I will get to my point. At the very least, the federal reserve must be absolutely crystal clear transparent, like every other branch of our government. This watered down compromise does not accomplish what needs to be done, whereas the bill you are currently co-sponsoring does.

In closing, I am very pleased with the fact that you are co-sponsoring S604. This shows me that you are looking out for the best interest of your constituents. I sincerely hope that you are not fooled by this weak compromise. Your continued vigilance in the struggle for real fed transparency will directly affect my voting in the 2010 elections.

Thank you for listening!

Your friend in liberty,

[name]

Not too late ... Patriots assembling to peacefully protest our out-of-control Federal Government Posted by JRedd

Posted 10/14/09 Last updated 10/14/09

Oct. 16, College Station, TX. All freedom-loving patriots should converge and show how we feel about Health Care Reform, out-of-control spending, and our bloated federal government. President Obama will be speaking on community organizing while thousands, hopefully hundreds of thousands, assemble and show unity against what he is doing to our country.

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=164677638202

How can we make a coalition work? Posted by DebbieMcKee

Posted 10/01/09

I attended a coalition meeting last night where Republicans, Libertarians and somewhat independent leaders came together.  We introduced ourselves and discussed ways we can work together.

 The saddest thing was the party loyalists who said they wouldn't support the Libertarian in the general election if the bad Republican won the primary.  They would still support the bad Republican, just because they had an R next to their name.  Which is what they have been doing for too many years and it's been ruining the country AND the party. 
 
How can they in good conscience put the PARTY before the COUNTRY?    Or put the PARTY before PRINCIPLES?

 Fortunately they aren't ALL like that, but the ones who run the clubs and counties for the most part STILL think that way. 
 
ARGHHH.  We must continue to be voices of reason in this insane world. 

Incurably optimistic,

Debbie McKee