[LPmeck] Potential Senate Candidate Speaks at Tea Party

[Christopher Cole]

These are the remarks of Michael Beitler at the Raleigh July 4 Tea  
Party. Beitler is considering a run for the LP nomination for US  
Senate in 2010. Website, http://www.mikebeitler.com .

[forwarded from LPNC Yahoo Group]

Anybody here in favor of a smaller government? [Applause]

Anthony Gregory, the Editor-in-Chief of Ron Paul's Campaign for  
Liberty, was a recent guest on my "Free Markets" radio show. Anthony  
said, "I don't blame the government, the politicians, or the  
bureaucrats." He went on to say, "I blame the American people. The  
government could not get away with these outrageous interventions, if  
the American people refused to put up with it."

Are you willing to put up with it? [No]

Politicians and bureaucrats will take as much power as they can get.  
Every new program means more power for the politicians and  
bureaucrats. Every new program means less liberty and more taxes for  
you.

There are three possible responses:

If you agree with the government interventions, say nothing.

If you don't care about America's future, say nothing.

But if you disagree and care about America's future, you need to say  
no more interventions. [No More Interventions.]

Let me tell you what you have put up with so far:

A decade ago, mainstream Republicans talked about abolishing the  
Department of Education altogether. George W. Bush then invaded every  
public school in America with his disastrous "No Child Left Behind"  
policy. I'm a business professor at UNC-Greensboro. I've seen the  
terrible results of that government intervention.

The Welfare State has grown to a Cradle-to-Grave entitlement. It looks  
like Bismarck's vision for Germany, instead of the Founding Fathers'  
vision for America.

Elected politicians tell us they are going to raise our taxes to pay  
for their irresponsible spending. They have no intention to balance  
the budget or to reduce their spending.

The Federal Reserve has printed trillions of dollars and artificially  
held down interest rates. This will lead to an explosion in inflation  
that will destroy your savings and everything you've worked for. I was  
a Chief Financial Officer in banking for ten years. I've had a chance  
to see the Fed's shenanigans up close.

What are we to do?

We must demand the following:

Abolish the Department of Education. Permit choice in education.  
Demand quality in education.

Abolish the Welfare State. The Constitution does not give our  
government the job of charity. We must end individual and corporate  
welfare.

Abolish corporate and individual income taxes. Demand a balanced  
government budget. Hold politicians and bureaucrats responsible for  
their irresponsible spending.

Abolish the Federal Reserve. [loud applause]. Abolish the Federal  
Reserve. Return to the gold standard. Demand real money.

And finally, stop voting for the status quo. Stop wasting your vote.  
Find people who speak the truth; people who have earned your vote.

I hope to earn your vote for the U.S. Senate in 2010. Thank You!


-- 
Christopher Cole
Libertarian nominee, US Senate
Huntersville, NC
http://www.lpnc.org/2008/us_senate.php
http://www.votesmart.org/bio.php?can_id=12999

"The left has a massive agenda for the state at home, and
yet complains bitterly, with shock and dismay, that the
same tools are used to start wars and build imperial
structures abroad. The right claims to want to restrain
government at home (at least in some ways) while whooping
it up for war and global reconstruction abroad."
-- Llewellyn Rockwell