When Southwest Missouri's Congressman was first elected in 1996, the Republican Party National Platform promised to change the direction of Washington D.C. from a socialist one to a capitalist one:
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As a first step in reforming government, we support elimination of the Departments of Commerce, Housing and Urban Development, Education, and Energy, and the elimination, defunding or privatization of agencies which are obsolete, redundant, of limited value, or too regional in focus. Examples of agencies we seek to defund or to privatize are the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and the Legal Services Corporation.
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The National Endowment for the Arts was notorious for its subsidizing of anti-Christian, pornographic “art,” including “art” which featured a figure of Jesus Christ submerged in a container of the "artist’s" urine. These programs mock the idea of "Liberty Under God," and undermine the very heart and soul of America.
But not only have these wasteful, unconstitutional, harmful bureaucracies not been abolished, they are all dramatically bigger than they were before Republicans took control of Congress. The Department of Education, as an example, now has a budget twice as big as it was under Bill Clinton.
These were good promises. They should have been made, and they should have been kept.
They should have been made because Republicans took an oath to "support the Constitution." None of these agencies have any constitutional justification. Everyone who Signed the Constitution would be outraged at their very existence, even if they weren't so wasteful and unAmerican.
Southwest Missouri needs a Congressman who will follow the Constitution and restore "Liberty Under God." We need a Congressman who will remember these basic features of the Constitution: