Dan on Values

I was visiting the website 9-12candidates.org and found that Dan Moadus had signed on to the 9 Principles and 12 Values of our movement.  Dan is a Constitutionalist who ought to be supported against Representative Ryan. Here is the sign paper.

Dan on Qualifications

Bo Perrin:  Dan, would you list the qualifications you believe make you worthy of the people’s vote and confidence?

Dan Moadus:  If you read my bio on my web site you will see that, though I haven’t attended college, I have a wealth of real world experience that few in our government have today . When I say, as Bill Clinton said, “I feel your pain”, I mean it.
I think if you get the chance to talk with anyone who knows me well, they will tell you that I am a bold fighter, who doesn’t look at the odds or stick his finger in the air to see which way the political winds are blowing.
I am sure they will attest to the fact that when I say that I will do something, I do it. If you talk to anyone who is familiar with my actions as a four term City Councilman, they will tell you that every vote I took was based on honesty and principle.

Dan on Aspirations for 17th District

Bo Perrin:  Dan, what are your aspirations for the people of the 17th District on the Federal level?

Dan Moadus:  I would work to bring them representation that fights to limit our government and that promotes frugality. But above all else representation that puts individual freedom first.

Dan on Responsibility

Bo Perrin:  Dan, what is your responsibility as a Representative of the people?

Dan Moadus:  I think one of my responsibilities as a Representative would be to apply the founding principles as voiced in the Constitution to the legislative process, and to provide oversight and a check of the power of the Executive and Judicial branches of our government.

Dan on the 1st and 2nd Amendments

Bo Perrin:  What are your views about the 1st and 2nd Amendments?

Dan Moadus: Your fourth question and your fifth question: Both of these amendments are sacred to me. Without them we would be slaves. I am absolutely convinced that Obama, Pelosi, Reid, and company, are trying to take both of these rights away. We have to exercise both of them or we will lose them, and if we lose them we are done. I don’t know if I mention this, but I have a concealed carry permit, and I carry a fire arm every day. In fact, the other day I left home without my wallet, but not my gun. Not only do I believe we have right to protect our selves and our families, but we have an obligation to protect our fellow man. Remember, “When seconds count, the police are only minutes away”.

Dan on Federal Spending

Bo Perrin:  What are your views about Federal spending and the budget?

Dan Moadus:  Your third question: Of course spending is out of control. It’s sad that people run for Congress based on promises of how much “Pork” they can bring back to the district. You can bet that Ryan will be bragging about the millions he brought back. But I tell people to remember that we benefit from the pork of one district, but we pay for the pork of 435 districts. That’s part of why our government is broke. If elected I will not view my role as one of bringing back pork. I will see that the tax dollars we send to Washington are returned to us, but nothing more. We simply have to elect people to Congress that agree with this or we are doomed. I don’t harbor any allusions about how hard this will be to achieve, but I will work towards it. There was a farmer who spoke at the Tea Party I attended last week. He was not a good public speaker, but he gave the best speech there. He said, “The Government has to learn that you can’t borrow yourself rich”. I thought that was the best comment all evening.

Dan on Constitution and Congress

Bo Perrin:  What are your views concerning the Constitution and the Congress?

Dan Moadus:  Your second question: I believe that the Constitution is a limiting document, and it is supposed to limit the Federal Government, especially Congress. It is only about fifty pages long so it shouldn’t be so hard to understand it’s intent. And it’s not that people disagree in regard to some of its tenets, it is that they have chosen to completely disregard it, in spite of the oath that they took to uphold it. I believe that our Country had the maximum amount of prosperity and freedom when our leaders obeyed the Constitution, and both have diminished as they have drifted from it. In short, if elected, I will use the constitution as my guide when voting.

Cap and Trade

Bo Perrin:  What Are Your Beliefs About Cap and Trade?

Dan Moadus:  Your first question made me realize that I don’t have a written position on Cap and Trade on my web site, though it’s the subject of my talk at the tea party, in the video I posted. I’m going to have to work on that, thanks.

I can’t tell you how strongly I oppose Cap and Trade. I read a good portion of the bill and it is so ludicrous that it actually made me laugh. When I was on WKBN with Dan Rivers I brought with me two items. One was a PUCO graph showing the various percentages of how Ohio generates eclectricity. It showed that we generate 86 percent of our power by coal. The second thing I brought was a transcript of an iterview with Obam in which he says, “You can go ahead and build a coal fired power plant, but this bill (Cap and Trade) will bankrupt it”. Where does that leave Ohio? As you probably know, Tim Ryan voted for this bill.

Dan on Global Warming

Though I disagree with the “Global warming” crowd I think we can agree on at least three things:

First, we know that the Earth has been in existence for nearly four billion years, and mankind has been around for about ten thousand, with only the last hundred or so of those years being industrialized. So in this long existence, any damage caused by mankind has been limited to this narrow time span. Also knowing that the Earth has been through many cataclysmic climate events, I think it is safe to say that it will survive for another 25 years or so, regardless of what we do or don’t do. Other than Ted Danson or Al Gore, most reasonable people don’t see us perishing in the next decade or so due to global warming.

Secondly, I don’t see even the environmental zealots making the claim that we are being killed by dirty air. I think most people understand that life expectancy has risen continually, and we will probably continue doing so.

And third, we share the atmosphere with the rest of the world. We don’t have an “American atmosphere”. Bad emissions from American cars and industries will circle the globe, and bad emissions from other nations will as well.

With these three things in mind and considering the present plight we find our economy in, don’t you think we could take a break from saving the globe for a couple of decades and allow American industry a little breathing room so that it can be revived? Let China and India take up the fight for the next ten years, because if they decide not to worry about the environment and continue to build their industries at the pace they are currently doing, it won’t matter how “green” America becomes anyways.

Let’s get off the backs of American industry for a while so that it can do what it does best which, of course, is to lead the world. We need to restore our industrial base and economy to secure a decent standard of living for our children.

Let’s take a gamble that the globe can make if for another 20 or 25 years, and then revisit the global warming issue. In the mean time, maybe China and India could be persuaded to join us in making the necessary changes.
Taking into account the rapid pace of technology (think of all the products that didn’t even exist 25 years ago) there more than likely will be fuel and battery technologies developed in the next decade or so that we can’t envision today, that will help all of the world protect and restore the environment. Let’s not make our Country destitute before that happens.