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Respectfully,

Don Mashak
The Cynical Patriot

Pelosi
Frank
Reid
Feinstein
Boxer
Franken…..etc, etc.
Too many bad guys to do just one.

Hello All:

A few days ago in the comment thread for the Vote-No-Confidence Group, there was a debate about tolerating politicians who breached the public trust/ ethos by for example having affairs, conflicts of interest etc. I have wrote a lengthy responsive argument regarding this topic.
I would appreciate it if you visit my response here:
http://twurl.cc/177k — Examiner.com
and here:
http://bit.ly/vkwV1 — NowPublic.com (liberal strong hold)

Here is the teaser -

TO THE DEBATE - TOLERANCE OF BREACHES OF THE PUBLIC TRUST (in elected officials and Government Bureaucrats)

The topic of this debate revolves around tolerance and intolerance of moral, ethical, legal and political trespasses by elected officials. In this story, I may sometimes refer to these collectively as ”ethos* Further, I may refer to breaches of any one of these aspects of American ethos as Breaches of the Public Trust. Broadly the four major perspectives on this issue are:

1) Biblical Mandate - That we must permit/practice tolerance, because politicians have the same failings of average people (Let ye without sin cast the first stone);

2) Political Reality - That politics attracts a certain element of society with a propensity to, for lack of a more secular and less offensive term, sin;

3) Political Loyalty/alliance/allegiance/expediency - Some of these folks that ”sin” share our same political beliefs and/or party and therefore we should overlook their trespasses to achieve our political goals;

4) Zero Tolerance - If a Politician breaches the Public Trust, their oath of office, or otherwise betrays the moral, ethical and/or legal beliefs of their constituency, the constituencies support for them should end, period.

Before I say more, I wish to thank all of you TEA Partiers that posted on or discussed this issue with me. I appreciate your thoughtful, reasoned dialogue. It is so much more pleasant and constructive to discuss the issues fully and freely without it degenerating into personal attacks. To the extent possible, I am going to make my arguments in in favor of Zero Tolerance without attacking the other perspectives. Let whatever position that prevails, prevail upon its own merits. This, as opposed to the dismantling of its competitors, as a show of contempt for the intellectual dishonesty that has become political tradition in America these days.

With that back drop, I am for Zero Tolerance. I do not arrive at this position with religious considerations. I come to it from a practical perspective. My position evolves from the following beliefs, thoughts, arguments and premises:

Please visit the links above to read the rest of my argument!

PS I get money for hits at the first link, so I would appreciate the click!

Respectfully

Don Mashak
The Cynical Patriot

Hello All:

Things to do to bring the heat to the government.
Here is an email i sent to my Country Auditor. They say it got lost when first sent. Now they are pondering telling me that the information i have asked for on our budget will cost 35 dollars an hour to get the information. They are suppose to get back to me before they commit the 35/hour ransom.

May I suggest you write your local governments and start asking questions? Use my email as a template if you like.

—–Original Message—–
From: dmashak@aol.com
To: bob.hiivala@co.wright.mn.us
Sent: Thu, Jun 18, 2009 12:01 pm
Subject: Request for information

Hello:

My taxes, and the taxes of other Wright County Citizens, have increased greatly in the past 3 - 5 years.

My off the hip estimate is that my taxes have went up about 500/year over the past 3 years.

At the same time, the value of my property has decreased.

Please quantify how much my taxes have went up on my property for the last 3 to five years respectively.

Further, you folks rescinded my agricultural homestead status. At this point in time, I intended to have 200-300 colonies of honeybees. However, a disease known as colony collapse disorder has decimated the honeybee population. I am now down to about 10 colonies, but can show you empty hive equipment representing another 40 colonies worth of equipment that is mothballed to prevent wax moth damage. But you decided to punish me because now I do not have enough colonies or some other arbitrary and capricious reason.

Please identify how much my taxes will go up next year as a result. I am thinking now that my taxes are going to be about 800-1000 per year too high.

With that in mind, i am thinking we need to start making cuts, to reduce my property tax load (and the tax load of other Wright County Residential and Agriculture property owners by similar amounts. )

Please provide me with the following information.

A list of all personnel that work for Wright County, including Title, job duties, payroll, and benefits packages for the past 5 years formatted from highest to lowest salary/benefit package. (delete all private information)

Please provide in that list a calculation for each position of compensation and benefits package divided by the number of 1) residents of Wright County, 2) Taxable Parcels in Wright County 3) Taxable acres in Wright County

Then, at the bottom, a aggregate total of payroll and compensation package divided by 1) residents of Wright County, 2) Taxable Parcels in Wright County 3) Taxable acres in Wright County

Please then also provide what the comparable position in the private sector would pay.

Please provide a list of things we could cut to save 10% in the next year and 10% in the following year, reflecting the sever down turn in the economy.

Thank you for your time.

Don Mashak

The Cyncial Patriot
Wright County Free Press
http://donmashakswrightcountymnfreepress.blogspot.com/

And, as all work and no play, makes jack a dull boy - here is some suggested music to tea party by on the fourth of July!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiWGk4Ejup4
http://video.yahoo.com/watch/223551/547331
http://vodpod.com/watch/1334568-tom-petty-i-wont-back-down
http://donmashakteapartyindependentdissent.blogspot.com/2009/06/music-to-tea-party-by.html

Wishing all my fellow TEA Party Patriots, A wonderful and fulfilling 4th of July..

Don Mashak
The Cynical Patriot

Barack Hussein Muhammed Obama. (Yes, that is what I have heard his full name is.)
Michael Moore
Nazi Pelosi
Janene Garofola (I know that’s not the correct spelling)
Rosie O’Donnell
Shucks, it’s too hard to stop once you get started