Thoughts on the Road with Steve Part 1 of 2 (May 8 2010)

Thoughts on the Road with Steve Part 1 of 2
Just after weekly Street Cleanupin Cayce, South Carolina
Saturday
May 8, 2010
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South Carolina State House
The "roll call" or "transparency" bill H.3047 and S.11

Our elected representatives need to be recorded on every vote.

To obfuscate, or hide the issue via complexity of the house/senate rules and procedures, is just that, its a form of Obfuscation.

All votes be recorded for accountability purposes.

The inconvenience, at this point, of a little time, just to show how we record votes, all votes, is worth the price for our representative democracy, our republic. Lets make all of our votes recorded votes. If it becomes an issue of time, of inconvenience, lets leverage our technology. -- Steve Isom

"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." -- Thomas Jefferson

"But you must remember, my fellow-citizens, that eternal vigilance by the people is the price of liberty, and that you must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing.
It behooves you, therefore, to be watchful in your States as well as in the Federal Government." -- Andrew Jackson, Farewell Address, March 4, 1837

"Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!"
-- Patrick Henry

If its a game, freedom trumps life, for me, freedom, freedom to choose, freedom to live life, to follow what is in your destiny, what you desire to work for. -- Steve Isom

Declaration of Independence - JULY 4, 1776
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. "

1st Amendment :
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the
right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America
That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, - That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

"History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme."
-- Mark Twain

"Lets look back at history, learn from history, look at the immediate situation, and what we foresee coming down the road, and prepare, and let the great thing, the diversity, within our governmental structure, the free enterprise system, the moral fabric of this country (our religious groups, our churches) the belief systems individuals have in this country, lead, and, guarantee all of our freedoms."
-- Steve Isom

"Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."
-- John Adams

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