The speakers here today don’t agree on everything. Where we do agree is simple. We agree that theft is wrong.

That’s what our current level of taxation is. That’s what inflation through the Federal Reserve is. That’s what these bailouts are all about. That’s what $99.1 trillion in Social Security and Medicare liabilities are because there is no lockbox. That’s theft. Congress is stealing our money.

The average American, through taxes at all levels, inflation and costs passed on by businesses in the same boat, pays more than half of what he or she makes. This isn’t freedom. This is debt slavery to special interests.

I pledge allegiance to the Constitution and the republic for which it stands. That’s why I ran for Congress as a libertarian. That’s why I’m running again. That’s why I have organized this event so we can come together against theft. There can never be too many of us here and this could not have happened too soon. That’s why we should all do everything we possibly can.

Ask what a free people would do, right here, right now. Ask what Thomas Jefferson would do. Start by saying “it’s not your money”.

I mean for the Constitution to be followed. I can’t sit back and make any compromises on that. Neither can you. We’ve been there and done that. And it works less every year.

We have allowed special interests to take over both major parties, to make favors a condition to be nominated. And those interests own the leadership of both parties. They created a never-ending series of permits, taxes, registrations, fees, fines, licenses, boards and committees. With the passage of HR 2454, which every Congressman from Connecticut voted for but clearly had no time to read, they have now taxed everything as the cap and traitors they are. Like other bills contrary to their stated purpose, this one harms the environment, enslaves the economy and creates even more pollution.

There is nothing I want nor any of us should want from the special interests running both major parties, our wallets and America into the ground. The bills they write for Congress to pass make this clear. There is a place where their favors belong. It’s time someone told them where to stick those favors.

The leadership of both major parties lead the fight for higher taxes, higher spending and selling our future along with our children’s’ future. Joe Courtney, Rob Simmons, Chris Dodd, Joe Lieberman… the list of enablers goes on. And these types of people come around telling us how they’re not part of the problem or that they’ve changed. Their compromises, like too many others, say to we the people that they know best what to do for us with our own money.

I’ve heard it before and so have you. They’re nice people in person. They talk a good talk. But it’s not their money.

No one deserves a 3^rd or 4^th chance. And if you put up with it, they’ll be asking for a 23^rd chance as we cart wheelbarrows of money to the grocery store for a loaf of bread. And they’ll still be treating you like an unlimited credit card.

We were warned about a central bank of issue, and the day of reckoning was in 1973, the last year median households got a true raise adjusted for inflation. We were warned about an income tax back in the days of Daniel Webster, a tax on our labor as if it’s not slavery. And we were warned about “factions” like the Democrats and Republicans in George Washington’s 1796 farewell address. Above all, we were warned by Thomas Jefferson to take the Constitution literally, not to stretch it for whatever meaning we desire. And I say that both major parties have usurped power by not amending the Constitution for the level and purposes of spending we see today – as if our money is their money. I take the warnings of our founding fathers seriously and object now.

It’s not their money.

And they use that money to tell us how to live. They have stooped to the level of bribing us with our own money. They use that money to assert what we can and cannot do with our own lives and our own property. They tell us how to raise and educate our children as if they are responsible for the outcome. They tell us what doctor to see, how much that doctor will be paid and where we can or cannot work through a never-ending series of laws, treaties and regulations. And they are so arrogant to suggest that they even pay us in action, or even outright speech sometimes. If you’re lucky, maybe unlucky, you can hear them refer to tax dollars as “their money” or “my money for their district”. And it angers me how servile Congress is when it comes to the Constitution, as if Valley Forge was a ski resort… with food or shoes.

Let me be the first to tell these people they can pound sand. It is not their money.

They tell us that it’s a problem that people who buy overvalued assets go out of business. We make bad decisions and pay for them everyday. Thanks to Congress, we now pay for good decisions. $15 trillion committed and spent on the bailout is paying dearly, with real unemployment, assuming you want to count all the unemployed, near 20%.

What’s next? Is Pelosi going to suggest stimulating the economy with bloc grants for chocolate covered dust bunnies? Will Obama suggest bailing out the economy by funding business ideas like Pizza Plane: the plane that delivers pizza? I say “why not?”. At least it’s more logical than bailing out casinos like Wall Street and telling us that a retail/service economy is fine because we don’t actually need to produce value to have an economy.

I want to work to create value, so I can live. I don’t work just to live like republicans and democrats want me to. How about you?

We need that kind of stimulus like we need a hole in the head. We need our money where it belongs – in our pockets. Giving credit where it’s due, there’s a difference between Washington and a casino. In a casino, the drunks gamble with their own money.

We need to remember that there was a depression between 1920 and 1921. Do you know what Congress and the Federal Reserve did? Nothing. We recovered in 18 months and shrank the federal budget. That’s opposed to what FDR and Herbert Hoover did then and what Congress and the Fed did starting in the Bush years. I notice this is conveniently omitted from the textbooks in our government schools, probably for a reason. Perhaps there isn’t a better way to sell paying farmers to destroy food so poor people without money can pay higher prices.

But you need to ask where we’d be without Congress… for at least the last 60 years… probably at the doctor’s office or buying groceries because we could afford to using the money we kept.

While we’re all here, let’s straighten out this business of where rights come from. They come from ownership. You own yourself. You have nowhere to ask for permission as long as you’re not hurting anybody else or using their property – regardless of any inane law or statute contrary to the Bill of Rights. I dare say you should challenge it with civil AND criminal complaints whenever possible. You are responsible for yourself. You are the sovereign. You hold the highest office in the land – citizen. That’s the way of freedom. That’s how we cut spending. That’s how we keep taxes low.

That is how we tell them that it is, in fact, our money.

It is exactly as the Constitution prescribes. That’s what made America an economic superpower. And it’s about time we went ahead with that plan because it worked, firing disobedient servants along the way. If we can find a criminal statute that fits an act they’ve committed, I say we follow up with grand jury complaints.

It’s not their money.

Let me close with some words of wisdom from the past:

But the Constitution which at any time exists, till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people, is sacredly obligatory upon all. The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish Government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established Government.

All obstructions to the execution of the Laws, all combinations and associations, under whatever plausible character, with the real design to direct, control, counteract, or awe the regular deliberation and action of the constituted authorities, are destructive of this fundamental principle, and of fatal tendency. They serve to organize faction, to give it an artificial and extraordinary force; to put, in the place of the delegated will of the nation, the will of a party, often a small but artful and enterprising minority of the community; and, according to the alternate triumphs of different parties, to make the public administration the mirror of the ill-concerted and incongruous projects of faction, rather than the organ of consistent and wholesome plans digested by common counsels, and modified by mutual interests.