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Interesting interview with Jim Gilchrist, former Constitutional Party candidate for Congress and president of the Minuteman Project (not to be confused with Chris Simcox and the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps).

He doesn't mention Simcox or his views of the situation between the two of them, but he does talk about Marvin Stewart and Debra Peterson (calls them sociopaths and says Stewart is insane!)

He also offers an odd list of political heroes ... Who'd've thought FDR belonged on the same list as Reagan or Jefferson?

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On Federal Spending:
“The federal government is in debt because it spends too much, not because it taxes people too little. Government spending is classified as either discretionary or mandatory. Discretionary spending includes funds for things like the military and is explicitly set by Congress on an annual basis. But the major culprit in ballooning budgets is mandatory spending for entitlement programs like medicare, expenditures which are determined by the number of beneficiaries. The only way to control the budget is to reform the entitlement programs that mandatory spending funds. Those decisions on how to allocate resources are as economically necessary as they are politically and ethically difficult. ”
-Tom Tancredo

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Although we find it strange I know several people including my father who went from being FDR democrats to Reagan republicans but never lost their affinity for Roosevelt. My dad has a picture of Reagan and Roosevelt on his mantle.