“When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.” – Ben Franklin

A spokesperson for the Housing and Urban Development Office went on the record on CNN’s “State of the Union” program and announced that President Obama plans to offer refinancing aid and loans for jobless homeowners. I’m all for helping those in need, but are we completely giving up on personal responsibility?

Am I the only one with a problem shifting all the power of both government and business to Washington?

Most of my friends disagree with me on this and think that corporate America is just a pile of greed dressed up in an Armani suit. Their arguments are always centered around unregulated industries stepping on their employees and abusing the little guy along the way to print money for the stockholders and C-level executives. I don’t disagree that much of the damage for Wall Street has been self-inflicted.

Here’s my question: What makes the President or Congress any different? Why are they morally superior to these shyster business execs? George W. Bush started the trend of bailing out industries and the slippery slope has turned into bailing out every group or industry in trouble. Slowly but surely, we’re shifting more and more power to a handful of decision makers in Washington. Need help? Lobby Congress. They’ll give you money.

At what point do we just vote to print our own?

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We (RNC’s Indy dev team) built a very public and very aggressive campaign to get Nancy Pelosi out of office for trying to force through a bill that the overwhelming majority of American’s don’t support.

Check out the site at http://www.FireNancyPelosi.com

Yesterday the Indy RNC development team launched it’s first campaign on GOP.com. We built out an application for the American public to tell Vice-President Joe Biden what they think about Health Care.

Call 1-877-7-TELL-JOE or fill out the form below to let VP Biden know what you think.

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I’m a software developer. I build systems that collect and utilize user’s personal information.

As a conservative Christian that works for the political party known for fighting to protect constitutional freedoms, I believe that above my legal duties I’m responsible to use and protect this information for good and only good. No scraping, borrowing, renting lists, spamming, etc.

Watch this quick video about how a company like Google looks at privacy:

Read more about International Data Privacy Day

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I’m working on a couple of ‘unofficial’ tools for the RNC. My friend, Larry Ward, and his team at Political Media have built a branded URL shortener at GOP.am. This is a cool tool that let’s you “Make Long URLs…Conservative.” Larry and I are working together to build some add-on tools to this service.

Also, I created a Twitter overlay image at Twibbon.com that adds a red background and a Listen To Me badge over the top of your Twitter profile picture. You simply go here and click the ‘Show my support now!’ button to give Twibbon your permission to overwrite your profile picture. It takes 2 seconds and you don’t have to do any photo manipulation at all.