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 :“Had Congress, in particular, been focused on doing its job of setting priorities and cutting the kind of wasteful spending outlined in this report, we could have avoided both a government shutdown and a flawed budget deal that was designed to avert a shutdown. The nearly $30 billion in questionable and lower-priority spending in Wastebook 2013 is a small fraction of the more than $200 billion we throw away every year through fraud, waste, duplication and mismanagement.
-:“This report speaks volumes about why confidence in government is at an all-time low. The hard truth is we’d much rather borrow than cut. The American people are right to expect more.” Source–[http://www.coburn.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/pressreleases?ContentRecord_id=e7359436-1572-414e-8acc-0222cad1c7d5 Read More…]
+:“This report speaks volumes about why confidence in government is at an all-time low. The hard truth is we’d much rather borrow than cut. The American people are right to expect more.” Source–[http://www.ibtimes.com/sen-tom-coburns-2013-wastebook-shows-how-government-lives-large-or-simply-careless-taxpayer-money Read More…]
 To give you better understanding of the problem, here is an excerpt from Sen. Coburn’s 2012 waste book.
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 :“With the House and Senate controlled by opposite parties, partisans point fingers of blame at the party in control of the other chamber. But, the stalemate is not simply the product of split-party control between the two chambers. The Senate has cast fewer votes in 2012 thus far than any year in decades. More than 20 of the 100 senators — on both sides of the aisle — have not had a single amendment considered on the Senate floor in 2012. And after blocking senators from offering fixes to bills throughout the year, the Majority Leader of what once was the world’s greatest deliberative body publicly announced from the Senate floor, “I will say this so it will save a lot of trouble for anybody…Amendment days are over.
-:“A number of important committees within both the House and the Senate are failing to do the important work for which they are responsible.” Source–[http://www.coburn.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?a=Files.Serve&File_id=b7b23f66-2d60-4d5a-8bc5-8522c7e1a40e Read More…]
+:“A number of important committees within both the House and the Senate are failing to do the important work for which they are responsible.” Source–[http://www.yorkblog.com/ydrpolitics/2013/04/06/read-the-full-wastebook-2012-report-from-u-s-sen-tom-coburn/ Read More…]
 ==Dissatisfaction With the Federal Government Has Become a Major Problem==
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 '''Federal overreach through state governments'''
-A Tennessee farmer who kills a chicken snake encroaching upon his henhouse would be subject to a class B misdemeanor with a fine range of up to $500 + court costs and/or six months in jail." This would be true in other states also, since it was adopted as mandated by federal regulations. Source–[http://www.tndeer.com/tndeertalk/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=2847199&page=1 Read More…]
+A Tennessee farmer who kills a chicken snake encroaching upon his henhouse would be subject to a class B misdemeanor with a fine range of up to $500 + court costs and/or six months in jail." This would be true in other states also, since it was adopted as mandated by federal regulations. Source–[http://www.ehow.com/info_8718418_laws-killing-snakes-tennessee.html Read More…]
 '''State government overreach'''

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 |HasSummary=Many of the founding fathers, including Thomas Jefferson, argued for the addition of a specific Bill “providing clearly and without the aid of sophisms for freedom of religion, freedom of the press, protection against standing armies, restriction against monopolies, the eternal and unremitting force of the habeas corpus laws, and trials by jury in all matters of fact triable by the laws of the land.” Most of that – which Jefferson called for in a letter he wrote to Madison after the Constitutional Convention – indeed ended up in the Bill of Rights.
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 :“Had Congress, in particular, been focused on doing its job of setting priorities and cutting the kind of wasteful spending outlined in this report, we could have avoided both a government shutdown and a flawed budget deal that was designed to avert a shutdown. The nearly $30 billion in questionable and lower-priority spending in Wastebook 2013 is a small fraction of the more than $200 billion we throw away every year through fraud, waste, duplication and mismanagement.
-:“This report speaks volumes about why confidence in government is at an all-time low. The hard truth is we’d much rather borrow than cut. The American people are right to expect more.” [http://www.coburn.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/pressreleases?ContentRecord_id=e7359436-1572-414e-8acc-0222cad1c7d5 Read More…]
+:“This report speaks volumes about why confidence in government is at an all-time low. The hard truth is we’d much rather borrow than cut. The American people are right to expect more.” Source–[http://www.coburn.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/pressreleases?ContentRecord_id=e7359436-1572-414e-8acc-0222cad1c7d5 Read More…]
 To give you better understanding of the problem, here is an excerpt from Sen. Coburn’s 2012 waste book.
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 :“With the House and Senate controlled by opposite parties, partisans point fingers of blame at the party in control of the other chamber. But, the stalemate is not simply the product of split-party control between the two chambers. The Senate has cast fewer votes in 2012 thus far than any year in decades. More than 20 of the 100 senators — on both sides of the aisle — have not had a single amendment considered on the Senate floor in 2012. And after blocking senators from offering fixes to bills throughout the year, the Majority Leader of what once was the world’s greatest deliberative body publicly announced from the Senate floor, “I will say this so it will save a lot of trouble for anybody…Amendment days are over.
-:“A number of important committees within both the House and the Senate are failing to do the important work for which they are responsible.” [http://www.coburn.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?a=Files.Serve&File_id=b7b23f66-2d60-4d5a-8bc5-8522c7e1a40e Read More…]
+:“A number of important committees within both the House and the Senate are failing to do the important work for which they are responsible.” Source–[http://www.coburn.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?a=Files.Serve&File_id=b7b23f66-2d60-4d5a-8bc5-8522c7e1a40e Read More…]
 ==Dissatisfaction With the Federal Government Has Become a Major Problem==
-“When it comes to excellence in education, red states rule—at least according to a panel of experts assembled by Tina Brown’s ''Newsweek'' …Using a set of indicators ranging from graduation rate to college admissions and SAT scores, the panel reviewed data from high schools all over the country to find the [http://www.newsweek.com/2011/06/20/best-american-high-schools-how-we-compiled-the-list.html best public schools in the country]…The results make depressing reading for the teacher unions: The very best public high schools in the country are heavily concentrated in red states.” [http://www.businessinsider.com/shocking-red-states-have-the-best-public-schools-in-the-country-by-a-long-shot-2011-6 Read More…]
+“When it comes to excellence in education, red states rule—at least according to a panel of experts assembled by Tina Brown’s ''Newsweek'' …Using a set of indicators ranging from graduation rate to college admissions and SAT scores, the panel reviewed data from high schools all over the country to find the [http://www.newsweek.com/2011/06/20/best-american-high-schools-how-we-compiled-the-list.html best public schools in the country]…The results make depressing reading for the teacher unions: The very best public high schools in the country are heavily concentrated in red states.” Source–[http://www.businessinsider.com/shocking-red-states-have-the-best-public-schools-in-the-country-by-a-long-shot-2011-6 Read More…]
-Of the 16 states with tax burdens of 9% or less – 15 are red states. [http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/personalfinance/2013/03/02/state-local-tax-burden/1937757/ Read More…]
+Of the 16 states with tax burdens of 9% or less – 15 are red states. Source–[http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/personalfinance/2013/03/02/state-local-tax-burden/1937757/ Read More…]
 ==The Larger the Government, the More Overreach and the More Infringement on the Bill of Rights==
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 '''Federal overreach through state governments'''
-A Tennessee farmer who kills a chicken snake encroaching upon his henhouse would be subject to a class B misdemeanor with a fine range of up to $500 + court costs and/or six months in jail." This would be true in other states also, since it was adopted as mandated by federal regulations. [http://www.tndeer.com/tndeertalk/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=2847199&page=1 Read More…]
+A Tennessee farmer who kills a chicken snake encroaching upon his henhouse would be subject to a class B misdemeanor with a fine range of up to $500 + court costs and/or six months in jail." This would be true in other states also, since it was adopted as mandated by federal regulations. Source–[http://www.tndeer.com/tndeertalk/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=2847199&page=1 Read More…]
 '''State government overreach'''
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 In Louisiana there are more than 280 offenses relating to hunting, fishing and wildlife that could get a person locked up for a long time. If a shrimper in the state picks up another person’s broken crab trap and throws it away on land, he or she could be sent to prison for two months. If it happens more than once, there is a mandatory prison stay.
-In Alabama, getting rid of scrap tires in an “unauthorized” manner is considered a felony, punishable by up to 10 years in prison. [http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/01/26/study-finds-gulf-states-are-biggest-targets-government-overcriminalization/ Read More…]
+In Alabama, getting rid of scrap tires in an “unauthorized” manner is considered a felony, punishable by up to 10 years in prison. Source–[http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/01/26/study-finds-gulf-states-are-biggest-targets-government-overcriminalization/ Read More…]
 '''Federal overreach into local government''':
-To what degree should the federal government be deciding what should be done in your local school? A lawsuit against a Tennessee school board has been filed in federal court for their practice of, among other things, prayer over the loudspeaker; the display of a cross on a classroom wall; graduation and other school events being held at churches; and the opening of school board meetings with prayer – a practice that occurs before all congressional sessions and at the presidential inauguration. [https://www.aclu.org/religion-belief/aclu-tn-lawsuit-charges-widespread-religious-activities-sumner-county-schools Read More…]
+To what degree should the federal government be deciding what should be done in your local school? A lawsuit against a Tennessee school board has been filed in federal court for their practice of, among other things, prayer over the loudspeaker; the display of a cross on a classroom wall; graduation and other school events being held at churches; and the opening of school board meetings with prayer – a practice that occurs before all congressional sessions and at the presidential inauguration. Source–[https://www.aclu.org/religion-belief/aclu-tn-lawsuit-charges-widespread-religious-activities-sumner-county-schools Read More…]
 '''Federal overreach into state government '''
-Does the state have the right to define marriage for that state, or is that a right of the federal government? A Federal Judge recently struck down Kentucky's ban on recognizing valid same-sex marriages performed in other states. [http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/02/12/federal-judge-strikes-down-ban-gay-marriage-other-states/5421509/ Read More…]
+Does the state have the right to define marriage for that state, or is that a right of the federal government? A Federal Judge recently struck down Kentucky's ban on recognizing valid same-sex marriages performed in other states. Source–[http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/02/12/federal-judge-strikes-down-ban-gay-marriage-other-states/5421509/ Read More…]
 '''Local government overreach '''
-In New York City, a limit was placed on soft drink size and types. It was to have taken place on March 12, 2013. Those plans fell through due to the invalidation of the law by New York Supreme Court Judge Milton Tingling. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_soft_drink_size_limit Read More…]
+In New York City, a limit was placed on soft drink size and types. It was to have taken place on March 12, 2013. Those plans fell through due to the invalidation of the law by New York Supreme Court Judge Milton Tingling. Source–[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_soft_drink_size_limit Read More…]
-Officials at a Talbot County, Maryland, Elementary School suspended two 6-year-old boys from their school after making gun gestures during a harmless game of pretend – they were playing a game of cops and robbers. This left the parents outraged. It was the second such incident in the state in recent weeks. [http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/01/16/two-maryland-school-children-suspended-for-making-gun-gestures-with-hands/ Read More…]
+Officials at a Talbot County, Maryland, Elementary School suspended two 6-year-old boys from their school after making gun gestures during a harmless game of pretend – they were playing a game of cops and robbers. This left the parents outraged. It was the second such incident in the state in recent weeks. Source–[http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/01/16/two-maryland-school-children-suspended-for-making-gun-gestures-with-hands/ Read More…]
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 The primary government issues today are in the purview of these five amendments:
-#Freedom of religion, speech, the press, assemble, and to petition the government
+<ol start="1" style="font-weight: bold;">
+<li><b>Freedom of religion, speech, the press, assemble, and to petition the government</b></li>
-#Keep and bear arms
+</ol>
+<ol start="2" style="font-weight: bold;">
-#Privacy
+<li><b>Keep and bear arms</b></li>
+</ol>
-#Liberty
+<ol start="4" style="font-weight: bold;">
+<li><b>Privacy</b></li>
-#The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.
+</ol>
 Growth of the federal government in recent decades seems to have made the 10th Amendment (“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people”), obsolete, but it isn’t. When government programs violate the Bill of Rights, the voters can turn to the Bill of Rights for guidance and return important powers to the states and the people, if enough of us exercise our power.
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 :“With the House and Senate controlled by opposite parties, partisans point fingers of blame at the party in control of the other chamber. But, the stalemate is not simply the product of split-party control between the two chambers. The Senate has cast fewer votes in 2012 thus far than any year in decades. More than 20 of the 100 senators — on both sides of the aisle — have not had a single amendment considered on the Senate floor in 2012. And after blocking senators from offering fixes to bills throughout the year, the Majority Leader of what once was the world’s greatest deliberative body publicly announced from the Senate floor, “I will say this so it will save a lot of trouble for anybody…Amendment days are over.
-:“A number of important committees within both the House and the Senate are failing to do the important work for which they are responsible.”
+:“A number of important committees within both the House and the Senate are failing to do the important work for which they are responsible.” [http://www.coburn.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?a=Files.Serve&File_id=b7b23f66-2d60-4d5a-8bc5-8522c7e1a40e Read More…]
 ==Dissatisfaction With the Federal Government Has Become a Major Problem==