Union thugs beat Steven Crowder, State arrests parents trying to save their baby, Was Jesus Married, Scalia

Bible (Photo credit: Sean MacEntee)

 

UNION THUGS BEATING A STEVEN CROWDER FOR ASKING QUESTIONS:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/12/11/fox-news-contributor-punched-in-face-at-pro-union-protests-in-michigan/

 

Questions like why are you against somebody getting a job who doesn’t want to join a union?

 

One Michigan legislator even said that union dues are not used for political advocacy. Anybody who has paid attention knows that they do. It’s difficult to have a rational discussion when such big bald-faced lies are told.

 

A Congressman even threatens blood. Steven Crowley got multiple hits to the face and threatened with murder, and they were tearing down the tent with people still in it.

 

There goes Lanny Davis again protesting that non-union workers are only “forced to pay” an equivalent of union dues so they don’t get “a free ride”.

 

But then they wildly yell protests when anybody suggests the same thing about freebie programs. Don’t touch the “free ride” for almost half of the entire country. If half the country already gets more out of government than they contribute, how can that mean that we need to take even more out of the working half to give more to the dependent half?!

 

Collective bargaining is just like any other groupthink. Once the “collective” agrees to think the same thing, they will have to have somebody tell them what to think.

 

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MEDICAL DICTATORSHIP:
In other news, an example of the tyrannical use of child abuse laws to abuse both the child and the parents:
Parents Unhook Baby From Monitors, Storm Out of Hospital | NBC 10 Philadelphia
http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Mom-Dad-Take-Sick-Baby-From-Lehigh-Valley-Hospital-182954441.html

 

Whose baby is it?

 

Do they really care about the babies? Some of those social workers got into it because they do care, or did care and got sidelined by reality. And they think they are trying to do the best for the kids.

 

But now this. As far back as the 1990s I remember a story of a new mother who got a bit distraught and called a hotline to see if it was normal to get a tingle when the baby was suckling. She was just trying to learn and she just wanted to do right by her baby. A little slow in the noggin maybe but no criminal.

 

And certainly not a child abuser. That social worker on the other line set in motion the child abuse by “authorities” that tore that baby from its mother for two years!

 

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WAS JESUS MARRIED?

 

What’s the big deal? Does the Idiot Press think this will disprove the Bible? It may cause a few wishy-washy opportunists to give it up, but not the ones who have their faith founded on the obvious historical fact of the Resurrection and the science that points to Bible truth.

 

http://www.lodinews.com/news/article_4e25b6cf-5c19-5ca9-a9f8-839b77d91de5.html

 

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Obama said he didn’t know of anybody who would rather collect a check than get a job. Let’s go see what they found in the the welfare state of Britain:

 

Lie-Detector tests for welfare cheats (In Britain):
http://www.wnd.com/2012/12/lie-detector-tests-for-welfare-cheaters/?cat_orig=money

 

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For the clueless, looking at Scalia‘s comments on the subject, Scalia NEVER claimed that homosexuality is “similar to” bestiality.

 

It’s another example of professional propagandists trying to make people forget that what he was saying that the moral basis that underlie most laws, like those that relate to bestiality and murder, might also be applied here. The burden of argument is otherwise, and expressions of righteous indignation at the idea do not count as a rational response.

 

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CNS: About James Taylor: Exactly how did he “suffer” with Bush that he does not “suffer” with Obama?

Did CNS even ask? IF they were not there, and got their information from somebody else, did their source answer that question or the ones below?

 

Rock singer/songwriter James Taylor tells the National Press Club he “suffered” during the Bush administration:

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/pop-star-james-taylor-i-really-suffered-under-8-years-cheneybush

What I don’t get is what this article is doing on the “Conservative” News Service web site, without any mitigating perspective by the writer, like,

(1) Was there a Q&A session after this guy’s talk?

(2) Did this guy give ANY specifics as to HOW he “suffered” under Bush and has not “suffered” under Obama, or WHAT it is he suffered?

(3) How did Obama’s policies 2009-2010 “fix” anything?

The reason I ask these questions is that almost everything the usual famous suspects were complaining about with Bush, Obama has done it all and done more of them.  I would have asked him one more thing:

(4) Did you understand Ron Paul‘s message? Do you understand why people on polar opposite ends of social behavior and philosophy came together to support him? Polar opposites on theology, family, different ethnic backgrounds?

Of course the 4th question would be an exercise in spreading the message of liberty.

 

There was a reference to the topic being Campaign Finance Reform (groan, again!) but no quotes or paraphrases from that topic either. Does he think legislators need to make it harder for people to run against them? Does he think legislators should be able to make the rules that make it harder for opponents to raise the funds they need to run against them?

 

Or did he even wonder whether the gang that made McCain-Feingold into law, whether the law was really meant to be fair to both incuments and opponents?

 

If limiting corporate influence in elections was the problem, then why does he think it no problem that big corporations own the broadcast networks and cable networks and the (declining) newsprint industry, or that NPR is the government reporting on itself and on opponents of the ones that fund them?

 

If you think government funding for campaigns is the answer, why do you think government making rules for who gets the money is fair to anybody, or how it takes considerations of money out of the picture? How is fair to favor people who already have all the name recognition, for example?

 

Tax and Spend % GDP 1993-2008 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

 

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Clinton-era taxes? How about Clinton-era spending as a baby step toward sanity?

English: Given permission by creators and owners (namely, board members of the Free State Project) to upload this image with a share-alike license. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The usual suspects that seem oblivious to the problem of an infinite money supply problem and on-rushing Weimar Republic sinking of the value of your dollar, are going on talk shows to claim that going to Clinton tax rates will not hurt the economy because there was so much prosperity.

Let’s even skip over the fact that Federal Reserve policies were spinning the economy into a recession in Clinton’s last year or two….

That argument only works if you declare an election like that of 1994 (or 2010 eh?) that “the era of big government is over” like Clinton did, and then implement pro-business policies like Clinton did, and if your budget is the size of Clinton’s, and your national debt is still “as low as” it was during Clinton’s presidency, indulging the oxymoronic use of “low” and “national debt”.

Oh yes, and remember, also, that he did have the “peace dividend”, and avoided getting the USA into the really big and very costly interventionist wars that G.W. Bush and Obama did, in Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, Libya and elsewhere.

Heck the most radical spending-cutter in Congress in 2012 is (still this month) Ron Paul, and in the campaign he only demanded a return to 2008 spending levels!!!

 

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CPA-USA is all giddy over Obama’s plans –same as their plans

Ron Paul, member of the United States House of Representatives from Texas. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

But get this, the Communist Party USA is having multiple orgasms over Obama getting (putatively) elected again:
http://www.cpusa.org/defeat-for-the-right-victory-for-the-people-democracy/

And the word “war” appears nowhere at all on this glowing basking in the fact that their platform got elected on –so they say– the issues they advocate.

Of course they ignore the elephant in the room, the fact that the genuine lovers of liberty abandoned the Republican Party in great numbers, after their brutal suppression of Ron Paul delegates both in the local and state levels and at the national convention itself in Tampa, and that many Tea Party types also decided not to vote for a fraud that would do the same things as the worse of the two evils.

And get this jewel of tortured lack of logic:

The Republicans were quick to say that no sweeping mandate emerges out of this election — people voted for the status quo. Look at the results in the House, they say.

But apart from the House, where Republicans retained their majority (in part because of gerrymandering), there is no evidence to support their claim.

By golly is that all? Republicans kept the House? And gerrymandering is all you got? So votes for Republicans don’t count? Phht, such hypocrisy.

Not that I believe in the “majority vote” as some bequeathing of divine wisdom, after all, Obama was re-elected. And Scott Walker got re-elected even after winning the first recall vote of a sitting governor in the history of the United States.

So the secret is out, and no longer secret. The Communist Party USA agenda and policy is the same as the Obama administration‘s. Sorry Newsweek, that still does NOT mean that we area “all socialists now”. That stupidity was knocked down in 2010, wasn’t it. All? By force?

Millions of us still appreciate it when our natural individual rights are respected. And some of that number are preparing to defend it.

Watch for a campaign against dissident Americans who dare to defend themselves against attacks by federal authorities or even local authorities. Already the police forces across the country get lists of bad guys where Ron Paul bumper stickers share a place on the same list with Aryan Nation.

When they do that, while they still let us run around with those stickers, it is a psychological preparation for more to come later.

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Socialism spends your children’s inheritance, and ours too

You ARE spending all your children’s inheritance when you think you get the state to pay for the nursing home and someone to change your diapers. The state pays for NOTHING, ZILCH, ZIP, NADA.

The ethical problem for takers is, they’re spending not only their children’s inheritance, they’re spending EVERYBODY ELSE’s inheritance with it.

The STUPIDITY of it all is that when the bill collector comes for his pound of flesh, the taker will whine and complain still blame the rich, blame God, blame anybody but the looting.

But by then there won’t be any of those “rich”, because the trouble with socialism is that you soon run out of other people’s money.

Except the small subgroup of the rich that has been pushing the socialist meme will have control of it all, including the “souls of men”, having converted religion into a merchandise.

We have been warned as a nation. The Federal Reserve is now a topic, and it is the most visible tool in the hands of this billionaire socialist/fascist ruling clique.

It is a private sector bank cartel with complete monopoly over all our currency, and most of the members of BOTH parties protect it. There is a small crack in their wall but they have all the money they care to print.

Now they’re in the open and they’re racing against time before there is enough momentum from the people to get the BIPARTISAN cronies in the Congress to do something about it, or a LIBERTY-minded new party gains a foothold.

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“Forward” to Election Fraud and Obama Layoffs – Carol Platt Liebau

The number of votes in the 2012 election that Congressman Alan West “lost”
141 percent of registered voters St. Lucie County in Florida tipped the vote against Congressman Alan West,
http://watchdogwire.com/florida/2012/11/10/massive-voter-fraud-in-st-lucie-county-florida-141-turnout/

From the report:

Click on the link below for the official St Lucie County, FL 2012 election results. Only one precinct had less than 113% turnout. The unofficial vote count is 175,554 registered voters 247,713 vote cards cast (141.10% ). The National SEAL Museum, a St. Lucie county polling place, had 158.85% voter turn out, the highest in the county.

When asked about the 141% Supervisor of Elections Gertrude Walker stated, “They may have had something like that in Palm Beach County, but we’ve never seen that here.”

Statement of Votes Cast St. Lucie County 2012 General Election November 6, 2012*

Supervisor Walker has posted this notice on her official website:

THE CANVASSING BOARD MEETING SCHEDULED FOR THE RECOUNT ON SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2012 AT 7:00 AM HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED FOR WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2012 AT 7:00 AM AT THE SUPERVISOR OF ELECTIONS OFFICE, 4132 OKEECHOBEE ROAD MALL ENTRANCE 2.

It appears that Allen West is justified in asking for a lock-down on the ballot boxes and machines in St. Lucie County. According to the November 7th Supervisor of Elections report Allen B. West garnered 52,625 votes in St.Lucie county and Patrick Murphy 65,896 votes.

Okay, there’s another side to the story, adn more details, find it here:

http://www.wptv.com/dpp/news/region_st_lucie_county/st-lucie-county-election-results-posted-after-hours-of-delay#ixzz2BnaZZjja

 

Okay, that’s Alan West in the recently redrawn district. Now let’s go to Ohio, the number one “swing state”, where some jurisdictions voted ONE HUNDRED PERCENT FOR OBAMA, just like Iraq did for Saddam Hussein:
http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2012/09/16/voter-rolls-in-ohio-are-bloated-experts-say.html

More than one out of every five registered Ohio voters is probably ineligible to vote.

In two counties, the number of registered voters actually exceeds the voting-age population: Northwestern Ohio’s Wood County shows 109 registered voters for every 100 eligible, while in Lawrence County along the Ohio River it’s a mere 104 registered per 100 eligible

Venezuela has Hugo Chavez, and Venezuela has that problem too, where there are more people voting than there are eligible voters.

The same article quotes Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted as saying they wanted to clean up the registered voter rolls that have over 20 percent regarded as “inactive”. He says there are –get this, attention now– conflicting federal laws that cover the cleanup of voter rolls

 

 

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Forgotten by FEMA: Staten Island’s Sandy victims vent over lack of aid | Fox News

Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

 

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/11/08/volunteers-step-in-for-fema-in-storm-ravaged-nyc-borough/

 

Who didn’t build that now?

 

The election’s over, Chris Christie is finished as any kind of viable Republican candidate for pres or VP either, and the money is going to go to whatever Obama‘s sponsors want it to.. The Community-Organizer-in-Chief is too busy now.

 

Punch-drunk residents’ ire is also aimed at the city — which is going door-to-door to order people out of their homes — at the American Red Cross, which some say has not done enough and at police and firefighters. One group of residents, calling themselves the “Brown Cross,” is patrolling the devastated streets, armed with walkie-talkies, and helping residents clear debris and pump water from their flooded homes.

 

“We’ve done more for our community than FEMA, the Red Cross and the National Guard combined, directly hitting houses and people in need,” Frank Recce, the 24-year-old longshoreman and Iraq Army veteran who organized the group, told FoxNews.com.

 

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/11/08/volunteers-step-in-for-fema-in-storm-ravaged-nyc-borough/#ixzz2Bg6hziYW

 

 

Now that’s community organizing, Government Not Needed.

 

 

 

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Russia a threat to the USA? Really? or Not?

I was recently asked a question in another forum:

“Are you seriously suggesting you see Russia as a threat to anyone, anywhere, including Cape Cod, Kitty Hawk, or the Keys?”

That is an example of the very same typical American gringo hubris that your Great Leader supposedly complained about on what is now known as the “American apology tour”. The arrogance of the Great Whore of Revelation 17 and 18, by which all the kings of the world have enriched themselves, the Great Whore that thinks nothing can happen to her, she’s so great:

How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.–Rev 18:7

You think America’s sins cannot come back and bite you in the rear?

I used to think the hubris and arrogance belonged only to the warmongers, the neocons and the blind leaders of some evangelicals who think they have to wage a holy war (don’t call it that) against evil enemies before we first clean up. Evangelicals and neocons that don’t stop to think about the empires of history that rotted from the inside out and whose prideful attitude sunk them.

Impregnable Babylon fell while they were having a party inside the palace, Daniel warned them. The Persians and Medes had diverted the river that fed it, ran in on the dry riverbed under the barrier to boats. The Persians were overcome by the lightning fast run driven by one man (as prophesied by Daniel) who skipped looting Jerusalem because the priests at the time respected prophecy and welcomed him as the conquering leader of Daniel 8.

The Greek empires coasted along, contemptuous of the Italian barbarians, who were quick and ruthless in their own conquering of the great Greek kingdoms.

American used to recognize this in a saying: “The bigger they are, the harder they fall”. You would think that the statist thinkers who fancy themselves “left-leaning” would take to heart the lessons of Vietnam, that America is not invulnerable to attacks, especially from their own.

Though thou exalt thyself as the eagle, and though thou set thy nest among the stars, thence will I bring thee down, saith the LORD.–Obadiah 4

There is a path to truth and peace:

Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

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Citizens United decision helps the little guy have a voice

Citizens United (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Citizens United was where the little guy got a bit of a voice. I’ve listed four or five reasons below.

In the real world, incumbents re reelected something like 90 percent of the time to Congress, and the majority of times to the presidency. The reason?

The incumbent has a built-in billionaire advantage that comes automagically from (1) using the taxed and borrowed money, collected by taxation extorted from people of opposite sides of their positions and supporters all, for “official” communications, interviews, press releases, and (2) the payback from being a good “patron” for his sponsors’ causes, and (3) name recognition.

In today’s world, item (3) has a dollar value in the millions.

As relates to Citizens United, it is absolutely true that corporations are NOT people.

BUT free speech ensues from natural INDIVIDUAL rights, and one’s contributions to the efforts of an initiative to publicize the views shared by the contributors, provides the individual a way to compete for attention with the big money. Ironic that the excuse they use to protect special interests is that they want to stop the influence of special interests.

Now there are some people that want to throw a mud cover on that, to obscure the fact that people contributing to a corporate initiative with the purpose of supporting their own personal ideas, is a right that ensues from the free speech rights of the INDIVIDUAL doing that contribution. The corporation inherits the rights of the individual owners of that corporation, who have agreed to the terms thereof, and it is the collective voice of those individuals that bestows the right to express opinions.

It is preposterous to argue otherwise. If you do, for consistency you have to ban the corporate free speech of all the newspapers, broadcast studios, and Internet sites that belong to corporations! That means you have to muzzle NBC, CBS, MSNBC, FOX, huffingtonpost, and God forbid, oh my, NPR!

That is a major, blatant, self-contradiction in laws that restrict corporate speech, obvious when uttered explicitly. The corporate news industry is always “exempt” one group of corporations. This group gives voice to Sony, General Electric, and other such giants. Sometimes I suspect “it goes without saying”.

Another self-contradiction is that the subtler forms of support for a candidate are left untouched by these hypocritical initiatives. Hypocritical because exempted or regular newscasts, news stories, and so on.

Hypocritical also when you consider that a recent survey (1990s I believe) showed that as many as 97 percent of the editors in a recent survey were registered to vote with Democratic Party affiliation, and about 80 percent of the journalists. That may have gone down one or two percent since Fox seems like at least to have about an even mix between the two parties.

Those numbers probably help explain why it’s the Democratic Party that pushes for shutting the mouths of others. Us poor people and middle class cannot pay for a full-page ad to explain our views or influence opinions.

But then there are gobs of independents, and a big part of those independents are people like me who hold to ideas vehemently and brutally opposed by the two-party cartel that holds power right now.

The special-interest group with generally the most influence anyway is the collection of companies that own broadcast and cable networks and print newspapers, and don’t forget corporations with massive Internet presence. ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC, FOX, HN. And remember that NPR is no obscure news source, as shown by the fact that one of its own moderated the first presidential debate of the 2012 campaign.

And remember that those news sources subsist from advertising almost exclusively. NPR has subscribers, and many of the Citizen United contributors may have heard about it from alternate media. Little-guy media.

NPR is a corporate entity, yes it is, and the fact that much of its funding comes from the current incumbent that has the elected office, along with the strings that come along with it. It also outlasts each Congress and presidency with their change in personnel. The effect is that their perspective influences them to favor the idea that government is a benevolent animal, simply because they view themselves as benevolent.

In other words, NPR’s government funding goes hand in hand with the philosophy that government should influence favorably the public’s view of government.

See here a diagram showing much of the interconnections between media corporations and their “cousins” in other industries:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Media_corporation_interlocks_-_2004.jpg

My read on Florida’s proposed constitutional amendments.

English: Honduran girls demonstrating against Manuel Zelaya. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

A fellow liberty champion in a meetup list shared the following link to a web site that has fairly good coverage of the amendments on the upcoming November ballot in Florida. Below are my decisions on these votes.

But before that, I want to say that I believe in a secret ballot and a secure ballot. Many states are passing voter-ID laws, and that makes all kinds of sense. In Latin America they would roll around in the floor with laughter for an hour about this. There is NOT ONE poor person in the United States, even in these Fed-infected economics, not one that can say they have more material obstacles to acquiring an official ID. And even the most corrupt of the rulers do not insult the intelligence of their victims that much.

That said, the tie-in to “secret” is that TOUCH SCREEN VOTING MACHINES ARE Trojan horses, whether by ignorance or design. You cannot trust them, and I’ve said this since the very first time I heard about them! But there must be a reason there was a mad rush to get them into voting booths long before the touch screens and touch pads got popular consumer market share!

Every programmer like me, or system administrator, knows that there is no security against the official, “legitimate” administrator of a system, no matter what. Like “Trust me, this is secure”?

What, like nobody’s cheated in an election before? Honduras’ ex-dictator Manuel Zelaya even admitted he got elected through fraud, out loud, in an interview on Univision with Jorge Ramos!

http://collinscenter.org/2012flamendments/proposed-constitutional-amendment-summary-information/

http://collinscenter.org/2012flamendments/home-2/
The following amendments will appear on the General Election ballot on November 6, 2012.  The Collins Center’s analysis of these proposed constitutional amendments provides  explanations of the proposals along with arguments for and against them.

For a brief summary of the proposed constitutional amendments, click here.  Select each link below for more information on each proposed amendment.

Amendment 1 : Health Care Services

    YES to banning medical insurance purchase command.

Amendment 2:  Veteran’s Property Tax Discount

YES to anything that lowers taxes for anybody

Amendment 3:  State Revenue Limitation

    YES – Limit revenue collection by the state to population and inflation growth (it’s a start)

Amendment 4:  Property tax limitations; property value decline; reduction for non-homesteaded assessment increases; delay of scheduled repeal

YES to limit taxes and cut the tie to incomes

Amendment 5:  State Courts

YES to more legislature oversight of the courts

Amendment 6:  Prohibition on Public Funding of Abortions; Construction of Abortion Rights

YES and YES

Amendment 7:   This proposal was known as Amendment 7 until a legal challenge by opponents led to the rewriting of some of the ballot language and its reinstatement on the ballot as Amendment 8. This is the reason there is no Amendment 7 on the 2012 ballot.

Amendment 8:  Religious Freedom

NO THE AMENDMENT SUMMARY FOR THIS IS WEASILY WORDED BY SOME OFFICIAL WEASEL SOMEWHERE. It does not say that this amendment would end the discrimination against the option by private citizens that is active today because of a court decision based on this amendment. The decision made some sense based on the law if the original statute used the word “indirect funding”. In any case, there should be no religious test in either direction, whether for public office or for public funds.

Really, the state should not be funding schools at all, including public schools, our graduates we are all dumb enough already!

Also I think all organizations with any religious or even non-religious purpose, profit or non-profit, should reject the chains that come with taxpayer-funded conditions.

The  ACLU‘s statements on this are self-contradictory. They claim there is no anti-religious bias in a statute that bans equal consideration for funding based on the recipient group’s religious character and prefers the secular. Second they specifically mention the voucher programs to argue against them, because PARENTS are prohibited from the free exercise of their own PRIVATE religious convictions in a decision on where they would place their children.

This again shows the ACLU’s own militant anti-religious proclivities.

There is a mention of Florida’s voucher program, which the Florida Supreme Court ruled that PARENTS of children (not government officials) could not use them to put a child into an explicitly religious school, based on the “no-aid” clause and also on a clause in the Constitution that requires the legislature to maintain a “uniform system of public schools”.

If that’s the essence of that constitutional clause, then the court ruling is a laughable and outrageous distortion of it; if it is not, then this explanation is bad. I suspect the former.

Amendment 9:  Homestead Property Tax Exemption for Surviving Spouse of Military Veteran or First Responder

YES to anything that lowers taxes for anybody

Amendment 10:  Tangible Personal Property Tax Exemption

YES to anything that lowers taxes for anybody

Amendment 11:  Additional Homestead Exemption; Low-Income Seniors Who Maintain Long-Term Residency on Property; Equal to Assessed Value

YES to anything that lowers taxes for anybody, although the fair thing to do would be lower them for everybody and stop spending so much of the money that wasn’t yours but confiscated.

Amendment 12:  Appointment of Student Body President to Board of Governors of the State University System

NO. In my opinion, this is something that leads to more bureaucracy controlled from top-down, and increases the conditioning of students to the current political structure that enforces conformity and compliance, and protects the incumbent two-party collusion.