About Welcome to Citizens Reforming American Politics

Welcome
to
Citizens Reforming American Politics
(Formerly known as The Lake Michigan Ron Paul Meetup Group)

We are working here within our community to return back to a Constitutional Republic by promoting Civic Education.

- America should not be involved in any pre-emptive wars.

- America should not be involved in any undeclared wars or police actions, that war can only be waged after a declaration of war has been made, and that only congress should be able to declare war (as the U.S. Constitution demands).

- Our elected representatives, from the President of the United States down to our locally elected officials should, at all times, practice strict Constitutional adherence - and be held accountable when they don't.

- So-called "free trade" agreements such as NAFTA and CAFTA have all but destroyed the American manufacturing sector, sent countless good paying American jobs to foreign countries, are major factors in the ongoing American economic crisis, contribute greatly to the destruction of American sovereignty, and should be repealed immediately.

- The Federal Reserve System (a privately owned corporation) is a scam designed to deprive the American people of all of their wealth, and replace it with debt.

- The Federal Reserve System has failed miserably in it's supposed mission to stabilize markets and control inflation, and should be abolished following a complete audit of it, the nation's gold reserves, and the criminal prosecutions that would likely result.

- The income tax is a corporate excise tax, as it is a direct tax, and not apportioned (as the U.S. Constitution demands).

- The I.R.S. and personal income tax should be abolished.

- The Federal Reserve System should be replaced with a gold and silver based monetary system (the U.S. Constitution states that our currency is to be backed by Gold and Silver).

- The "Patriot Act" is anything but patriotic, infringes on our liberties, and should be repealed immediately.

- The "Real I.D. Act" is a dangerous affront to our right to privacy, and should be repealed immediately.

- U.S. membership in international organizations such as the U.N. greatly weaken U.S. sovereignty, and increase the likelyhood of military entanglements - therefore, the U.S. should pull out of such organizations permanently.

- Taxpayer bailouts of Wall Street's fat cats are un-American, unconstitutional, unfair, and unbecoming of a free society; socialistic economic policy like this is best left where it belongs - Russia and/or China.