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Americans inherit from their ancestors a glorious tradition of freedom and resistance to oppression. Our country has long been admired by the rest of the world for her great example of liberty and prosperity - a light shining in the darkness of tyranny.
But many Americans today are frustrated. The political choices they are offered give them no real choice at all. For all their talk of "change", neither major political party as presently constituted challenges the status quo in any serious way. Neither treats the Constitution with anything but contempt. Neither offers any kind of change in monetary policy. Neither wants to make the reductions in government that our crushing debt burdens. Neither talks about bringing American troops home not just from Iraq but from around the world. Our country is going bankrupt, and none of these sensible proposals are even on the table.
This destructive bipartisan consensus has suffocated American political life for many years. Anyone who tries to ask fundamental questions instead of cosmetic ones is ridiculed or ignored.That is why my Campaign for Working Families was established: to highlight the neglected but common sense principles we champion and reinsert them into the local political conversation.
The U.S. Constitution is at the heart of what the Campaign for Working Families stands for, since the very least we can demand of our government is fidelity to its own governing document. Claims that our constitution was meant to be a "living document" that judges may interpret as they please are fraudulent, incompatible with free government, and without foundation in the constitutional text of the thinking of the Framers. Thomas Jefferson Spoke of binding our rulers down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution, and we are proud to follow in his distinguished lineage.
With our Founding Fathers, we also believe in a non-interventionist foreign policy. Inspired by the old Robert Taft wing of the republican Party, we are convinced that the American people cannot remain free and prosperous with 700 military bases around the world, troops in 130 countries and a steady diet of war propaganda. Our military overstretch is undermining our national defense and bankrupting our country.
We believe that the free market, reviled by people who do not understand it, is the most just and humane economic system and the greatest engine of prosperity the world has every known. We believe with Ludwig von Mises, Henry Hazlitt, and F.A. Hayek that central banking distorts economic decision making and misleads entrepreneurs into making unsound investments. Hayel wom the Nobel Prize for showing how central banks' interference with interest rates sets the stage for economic downturns. He also shed light on the central bank's interference with interest rates sets the stage for economic downturns.
