Edward J. Foster

But yet, our school boards feel confident in requiring classes teaching the acceptance of homosexuality, of the fallacy of "global warming", of keeping parents ignorant of teen pregnancies and in the dispensing of condoms to school students. Our school boards continue to "promote" students from one grade to another, even when they haven't mastered the subject matter. They tell teachers, "teach to the test", it doesn't matter if the students actually learn anything, as long as they pass the test and the school gets a "passing mark" from federal and state regulatory agenies. They have determined that self esteem is more important than actual accomplishment, which is why students bring home trophies for finishing 23rd in a competition of 23.

America's problem is that we have failed to teach our children, as we once had in my time, to know this document, the Bill of Rights and the Declaration of Independence, and to be tested on it!

We no longer require this test to our Emigrants. We do not enforce in any way the oaths taken by any of our elected officials.

Those who now represent us no nothing of our basic Constituion, only their own legal arguments against it. And this is only not right, it is unjust.

We Americans, those born American and those who have legally emigrated into becoming an American need to call these people into accounted and vote them out of office one by one, one election at a time, and replace them with honest ment and women who promise to fall upon their swords if they in anyway break their allegiance to the Constitution of the Untited States of America, or their own State! Settle of nothing less.

Hozro

Dear Ms. Martin, Your proposal would create a massive review of all laws and possibly require changing many things that now exist in the State in which I was born. Further, the addition of, "…to be accountalbe (sic) to the citizens of Ohio" would open the state to what is called a "Tyranny of the Masses" which is the opposite of the rule of law.

I believe that in most cases, your request is already in existence. Certainly all elected officials are accountable to the voters, who can simply reject them at the next election, and in many cases initiate recall proceedings immediately.

Sometimes I wonder if any of them even knows what rights are or why we have them? (Much less how to protect them.)

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The health care legislation currently being discussed is moving forward, something will pass, but whatever is passed shoiuld have an amendment added that all government employees, teachers union members,Police and Firefighters, PERS,congressmen and women, federal, state and local city and town employees come under the same bill. No more special perks for those who are part of the cash cow of government health and retirement programs. The common folk can not afford to purchase the gifted full lifetime health and retirement benefits given to federal, state and local employees.

Bob Brandt

I digress, my main point centers around today's meaningful accomplishment and how our founders would view seeing estimates of $1,500 to almost $7,000 extra per year for my family to outlay in 'Cap and Tax,' plus another $1,000 – $8,000 grand for a 'Public Option' that my union heads seem to think is a grand ideal. I really have a hard time with political math because neither are or should be in OUR Constitution!

Congressman, please, please keep fighting the good fight – help your collegues and all of us emancipate ourselves from mental slavery. None, but ourselves can free our minds. Please relay for me this great quote:

"If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen."

Samuel Adams

God bless.