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Representative Marilyn Ruestman, a Republican, represents District 131 in the Missouri House of Representatives.

This includes portions of McDonald and Newton counties in Southwest Missouri.

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The Capitol Report

 Power Belongs to the People

 

Recently, the news has focused around town hall meetings being held by members of Congress.  After failing to pass socialized healthcare before their August break, the Democrats returned to their districts to drum up support for it.  Instead of support, they are quickly learning that Americans are strongly opposed to the newest socialism scheme.  So, as they did with Joe the Plumber, they are seeking to discredit the average, hard-working American.

Our Founding Fathers knew that the government can control its people if it can suppress their voices.  While passing the Bill of Rights, they were sure to include our Freedom of Speech in the First Amendment.

I would like to remind everyone of the exact wording in the First 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.”

 

For the third in my series on conservative principles, I’d like to discuss our First Amendment rights.  Our nation remains great and true to its values only by keeping the power in the hands of the people.

What our Democrat Congressmen have forgotten is who can hire and fire them.  When their constituents show up to oppose the healthcare bill, they refuse to listen.  Instead of taking it for what it is – the voice of the people rising up – they say it’s not real, “manufactured” or a Republican conspiracy.  Some of them are so adamant about not listening to the people; they are canceling their town hall meetings and scheduling manufactured conference calls where they can pick and choose who is involved.  In Missouri , our Senator chose to cancel one of her meetings and one of our U.S. Representatives seemed to restrict his meeting for union members.

In these times when the elected representatives are trying to stifle our voices, we should remember the First Amendment.  We have the right of free speech.  We have the right to peaceably assemble.  We have the right to petition our government for the redress of grievances.  These Congressmen have some grievances to redress.  The people must not be stifled!

 

If you have problems, questions or wish to express concern over an issue, please do not hesitate to contact me or my Legislator Assistant, Jonathan, at my Capitol office either by phone 573-751-9801 or by e-mail at marilyn.ruestman@house.mo.gov.
 
 
 

The Capitol Report 

Free Enterprise Works

 

Let me begin this week by disagreeing with the following quote from our current President:  Capitalism is… “an economic philosophy that has failed.”  This “failure” was the theme of his campaign last year.

Continuing with the conservative principles I began last week, I’d like to shift the focus to free enterprise (Capitalism), the economic philosophy that has made us the most successful nation on earth.  America ’s opportunities and prosperity are the result of free enterprise and individual initiative.  This “failure” as the President claims comes after the most prosperous century human beings have ever known.  The United States of the last 100 years is the wealthiest nation to have ever existed, not by a small margin, but by a giant gap.

The technology and quality of life we ALL enjoy (even the poorest among us), is far beyond what our Founding Fathers could have imagined.  Everywhere you look, we are surrounded by monuments to capitalism that never would have existed under socialism.  Not far from my district is the Home Office of Wal-Mart, the largest retailer in the world and nearly the largest employer.  Wal-Mart would never have been considered under socialist policies.

Yet, with all the evidence of the success of free enterprise and individual initiative, the liberal media and Democrat White House want you to believe it is a failure.  It baffles me that the very people who enjoy the fruits of individual incentive and capitalism would claim it is the problem.  I really wonder how they believe we became so successful.  They must believe it is a cosmic coincidence that brought us to be the only super power and the largest force behind the world’s economy.

The promise of a better life and the “American dream” has been the drive for millions of people over the decades.  That promise brought us amazing technology like the personal computer and major leaps forward in healthcare.  Now, we have a Leader who says it was all a waste. 

Our President believes the government should compete with you and I for business.  He says that Washington should compete with Detroit .  Ford Motors already knows the struggle other companies will soon face under socialism policies.  You cannot compete with the government because it is subsidized by you and I, the taxpayers.

As a small business owner, I have faith in Missourians.  I believe you best know how to spend your money.  I believe that when you are able to enjoy the wages of your labor, you have an incentive to work harder.  When you open a business, I don’t think the government should be next door trying to steal your customers.  I believe that Capitalism has not failed.  We must stand up and defeat the liberal policies of this administration!

If you have problems, questions or wish to express concern over an issue, please do not hesitate to contact me or my Legislator Assistant, Jonathan, at my Capitol office either by phone 573-751-9801 or by e-mail at marilyn.ruestman@house.mo.gov.
 
 

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