U.S. CONGRESSMAN PAUL C. BROUN, M.D. 10th Congressional District of Georgia

The march to socialism goes on as we citizens demand more involvement of government in our lives. Regulations control almost every part of life that accompanies each funded project. People ask for a new road and somebody seeks federal money. The road then is built by federal standards and mandatory features such as timed crosswalks go in where nobody crosses the road. Years ago when I lived in south Georgia there was a government plan to build a hydroelectric dam on a local waterway. Somebody in Washington DC was looking at a map and saw this project as a good way to spend money to impress somebody. Eventually the message got back to Washington that the body of water was a creek about three feet across. The plan came to a stop. Suppose that absurd little dam had been built. Regulations would have accompanied the dam and the electrical output,. Also the surrounding property would be under federal regulation. We must seek to work out our problems locally.

My favorite Reagan quote is the one that goes something like, "Government is not a solution to our problem, government is the problem." Congress needs to dissolve the Department of Education immediately. Congress needs to dissolve the Environmental Protection Association. When will Congressman Paul Broun, M.D. cast his support for the Fair Tax, H.R. 25?

Ronald Reagan is dead so I won't so anything about him, other than he gets a lot more credit than he deserves. For people who think government is the problem, let me state that without government we wouldn't be a nation today. It isn't government, but the people in government who are the problem: the people who don't want to do what our founding fathers meant when they said a government of the people, for the people, and by the people; the people who don't recognize that the preamble to the Constitution is the mission statement for the government, and not just some fancy sounding elite, liberal words; the people who think the Declaration of Independence is a law and who won't acknowledge that the so-called rights mentioned in the Declaration are not God given, but given by man to man when it suits their purpose.

Dear Representative Broun, I apologize for posting here, but it was the easiest way for me to get a message onto your system. I notice as a legislator that morality is an important criterion for you. With that in mind, I ask you if you think you could have done better in responding to the person who asked about shooting President Obama. I understand that you respectfully treated that remark as if it were a legitimate part of the political conversation: "The thing is, I know there’s a lot of frustration with this president," etc. Of course, politicians often have to do this when they don't understand a constituent's question or the constituent is confused or doesn't understand a policy issue, but this is not an example of that. This is part of a larger rhetoric of violence that has infused recent political speech from the citizenry to political candidates to elected officials. I truly feel it was your moral responsibility to deal with that dangerous rhetoric on the spot and at the time. No responsible politician should tolerate this violent rhetoric. I hope you will have the opportunity to reflect on this and as a moral man take more appropriate action in the future. I know if I were in your shoes, given that this has already received press attention, I would take the opportunity to acknowledge the mistake and speak out against this sort of rhetoric and distinguish yourself from the "second amendment solution" and "lock and load" crowd. Sincerely, Robert T. Brennan

Dear Representative Broun, I too apologize for posting here. However you are a U.S. Representative and even those that are not in your district should have an easy way to reach you. I ask that if you truly believe in your own BROUN'S 4-WAY TEST? Was the question posed to you about shooting Obama any of the following? Lastly I think you should add one more question to your test. Was not addressing the question any of the following? 1. Is it Right/Moral? Answer NO 2. Is it Constitutional? Answer NO 3. Is it Necessary? Answer NO 4. Is it American? Answer Hell NO

I fully agree with Mr. Brennan's comment on Feb. 25, 2011

I'll tell you Representative Broun, Ronald Reagan would have deplored a constituent asking about shooting the president. He wouldn't have laughed. This act will follow you for the rest of your life. What has happened to the Republican Party? Is it now the party in favor of political terrorism? I am sick at heart, hearing this story and your words. Where is the fear? When there is another Republican President, don't you understand this gives the go ahead to the nuts on both sides? How moral is it, to laugh at the murder of the President, whoever he is. As a Republican, don't you remember Abraham Lincoln and his fate at the hands of a southerner? Tim Brown

Please show us where Ronald Reagan would have condoned anyone threatening the life of any United States president. Would Reagan have laughed at someone who suggested shooting a sitting president? No, he would have condemned it and probably had the man removed from the event. The era of Ronald Reagan Republicans is over. You and your constituents are nothing like Reagan. You do not deserve to be associated with his political party.

Rep. Broun - I, too, apologize for posting here but I saw no other forum on your site where this issue could be appropriately discussed. I find it appalling that someone in your position, as an elected official, sworn to uphold the laws of the land, could not face the issue posed by the questioner at your town hall meeting. It would have been the perfect opportunity for you to come forward and speak out against intolerance and ignorance. To let those whom you serve understand that your talk about the "is it right/moral?" aspect of your decision making process isn't just talk but can and should be put into action. Immediately. Without discussion. Regardless of the circumstances. Your tacit approval of the question, your inability to discern even the most basic elements of understanding such a blatant right vs. wrong issue, are warning signs that you do not possess the capabilities you claim to possess - to make right and moral judgments/decisions as a representative of the people of the state of Georgia. You are an embarrassment, sir. "The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future - must mediate these things, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm." You failed to mediate these things. Failed as a Representative, as a physician and as a moralist. Sincerely, James Trestrail

Representative Broun, Political differences can be settled in many ways. Shooting the President is not acceptable as one of them.. Condoning it by omission is also not acceptable. The Republicans of today are nothing like the Republicans of the Reagan era. and I think Abe Lincoln no longer want to be a member of such a party. You failed your own Broun's four way test. I am sorry for the State of Georgia having a person of such you representing them

Congressman Broun's latest blogpost on his website, http://broun.house.gov, is Remembering Ronald Reagan. An ironic thing, since President Reagan himself was the victim of a traitorous attempt on his life by another mindless nut job of a gunman. But I seriously doubt if Broun can appreciate irony like that, because people like him don't understand that Presidents represent this Country and our shared Ideals of what it is to be American. Presidents don't represent just Republicans or Democrats or Hoosiers or Georgians. They represent us all. And the twist here is that Broun can't claim he wasn't taught that, because he's a Marine. He was taught that Presidents are somebody important. Like the flag, they're bigger than politics. And I’m guessing if the nut job at Broun’s meeting had stood up with a match and tried to light an American flag on fire, Broun wouldn’t have been “stunned” into inaction. He would have stopped the wacko and probably punched him in the nose. So I don’t buy his excuse and I have no respect for his actions. My advice for the man is, if you don’t love this Country and everything it stands for, the door is open and you can leave. I’m posting this on his blog at the Remembering Ronald Reagan page. Maybe it will remind him of his Marine days.

SHAME on you! Your original response to a person's comments that asked about shooting the president, shows your true feelings on the matter. Laughter? How very disgraceful! Your incendiary comments last month about our president not believing in our constitution(how ridiculous) or that the president is a socialist(do you KNOW what term actually means?) shows how you really feel about the president of the USA. If something happens to President Obama, it will be people like you that will have a share of the blame for your public comments OR silence when they are made in your presence.You are an embarrassment to the US Congress!

SHAME ON YOU, YOU THINK A MURDER THREAT IS A JOKE?

You are a disgrace to decent people. No one, least of all am elected public figure should allow or let go unchecked such a statement as the one made about the President. And this in the wake of the recent Gifford shooting that killed a 10 year old girl? Gifford shooting. The gunman, walked up and shot Gifford in the head first, “point blank”. After shooting Gifford, the gunman opened fire indiscriminately for a few seconds, firing 20-30 rounds and hitting a number of people, including a kid no older than 10 years old who died. six people dead. FUNNY STUFF HUH CONGRESSMAN? You must think so. The fact that this statement at your town hall event about "Who's going to shoot Obama?" didn't even cause you to pause and think about the Gifford tragedy and then saying nothing to him this person only helps create more psychos like the one in the Gifford tragedy. Now your condemning the statements? Your to late. Thanks for showing your true colors. You, and the man in your audience are a disgrace to America and the republican party!

laughing at the nutcase in the audience was weak, lacking in leadership & disgusting to me. And yes, it DOES seem like tacit approval.

I do not live in the 10th District, however, I must comment on the recent suggestion of the assassination of the President at your political gathering. Because you refused to IMMEDIATELY confront this apparently unstable person who posed the question and those who laughed, I can only conclude that you share the hope that someone will actually undertake that assassination. Having read and heard your other coments regarding President Obama, I regret to say that I am not really surprised that you joined in the "fun." How can you, an elected official, stand by and allow such awful rhetoric as well as overtly spew out ridiculous and ignorant accusations and epithets regarding the actions of this president yourself? Have we not had enough killing? I am ashamed of you, and of those who support you. I say ENOUGH!!!

I am writing to express my deep sadness that you, Mr. Broun, represent my state because, unlike your constituents, there are many Georgians those who profoundly oppose the accusations and epithets you hurl at the President. Furthermore, your inability/unwillingness to confront the suggestion of the assassination of the President during your political gathering simply confounds and nauseates me. Where is your sense of responsiblity to this nation? Have we not had enough killing? Do you share the opinion that the President should be assassinated? Do you intend to continue to project an image of hatred and ignorance for my state? I cannot even address issues of morality, truth and fair play because I see no evidence that you represent any of those virtues.

Dr. Broun, You are a disgrace to your office.

After learning about your response to the man who asked who is going to shoot Obama I cannot tell you how disappointed I am. You owe it to America to go on radio and TV and apologize to America for your blunder in not immediately telling that man that this is not how America works. I feel helpless when people like you take the same road as Sara Palin. Wake up Doctor. Do you realize the load you are placing on the Republican Party?

Please support the budget agreement on Thursday to fund our government for the rest of 2011.

I felt I was the only person on some strange planet in this district. The responses about the terrible comment give me hope that I'm not alone. The President is OUR President and deserves respect. I have heard Dr. Broun on more than one occasion be very disrespectful. What kind of example is that?

What I know about Ronald Reagan was that he supported free trade, and that he proposed a framework for free trade in North America in 1979. I argue that you cannot support free trade and a reduction of government in the every day lives of ordinary Americans. The efficiency of free trade is more than overwhelmed by the system of transfer payments that increase when domestic industry is exposed to imports. More Americans come under social worker tyranny when private industry cannot afford to hire Americans. I would like the Congressman to please download the paper by David H. Autor, called The China Syndrome: Local Labor Market E¤ects of Import Competition in the United States. The research paper details how SSDI payments increase over time as free trade agreements take hold of the America economy. I say you cannot be for small government if you support free trade. It is intellectually dishonest to say so. Either you are going to get big government that will enforce poverty through a police state or you will smother the population with a nanny state. Free trade will force you as a Representative to choose between 1984 or Brave New World. You cannot have anything near a free economy with these free trade agreements. You cannot have an effective Bill of Rights with a zero tariff economy. You cannot have low military spending when free trade policies are enforced on recalcitrant nations. True conservatism is anti-imperialistic. True conservatism supports a humble foreign policy. We cannot have this with the idea that we should force fake democratic republics, that leave domestic industries vulnerable to global competition. Our budget is huge because of war socialism and welfare statism. Each supports the other. Free trade is tyranny appearing as liberation. Only a strong nation state with a strong national interest can support the prosperity of its citizens. We cannot grow the rest of the world into prosperity if we harm our own prosperity. Our downfall started with progressive internationalism of Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, and we have seen our freedoms diminish since these two popinjays initiated such ruinous policies. Please download the study at http://econ-www.mit.edu/files/6613.

The Honorable Dr. Broun, I am listening to you speak on the House Floor. You are an outstanding speaker with the TRUTH. Please consider taking the U.S. Constitution and putting it up in portions in gold frames on the walls of the House of Representatives. The Preamble can be one portion. Be certain to have the signs even larger than those that you used for your presentation. One large sign should be at the Speaker's desk in the House. Get a Republican to do the same in the Senate. Let's see if Harry Reid refuses this. If so, take a vote in the House and in the Senate by Resolution. Thank you, Dr. Broun. Delores Smith Delores109@cox.net

Hello congressman Broun. I too am posting here to get a message to you. One of urgency . But not of the type you might think. Not one of political savvy, or in the vein of telling you how to do your Job. No, I am a carpenter with six children, The kind of family that America was built upon, And is considered a politically incorrect thing to do these days. Nonetheless, We love our country and family more then most any thing. But even more, we Love the God and the Lord that gave this nation its start. I rarely have any thing to do with politics. Frankly I do not trust a man in the business of thinking he knows what’s best for every one else. It tends to make hypocrites of men at best. So keeping away from that which entangles a man’s soul, I do my job and pay my taxes, We raise our children, and leave what’s sovereign to God, and his will. But I must take this time say that I was watching the telecast of your speech today 4-11-20011. And felt this compelling sense to write this letter of encouragement to you and your staff. In a time when working class men like me , and those I work with, are more then sure you all in the government have turned to the Devil. I found my self in astonishment today and in care of your Good words. The idea that this country is “perishing for lack of knowledge” is not lost in our little town and church here in Minnesota. But to hear that idea being spoke in the house of representatives truly gave me Hope. That, is what you did, for me today . You gave me a little Hope , and in this time when us working men out here.. have little or none, it is not with our notice when truth is spoken there. So dear were the words you spoke today, hat was enough to bring tears to my eyes. I can- not tell you how much it meant to hear a man in such a high office, speak the truth in regards to this mess we are all in. And because I to am a cynic, I will say this for all the hard hearted on lookers who read this . No I am not a bible thumping religiously crazed man. A fool for Christ yes, but mostly your average hard working American just nearly getting by, In fact we are just a month or so from losing our Home , and becoming one of the forgotten profits of the bankers, So even though some would mark me as one of the typical silent mass. I would let you know we are looking for Hope from you all there, We working class, know good from evil. And I know that when a Man of your position speaks the Good word of God , their in the midst of all those who are over come with the world, and the power of this world, Then i know that I have witnessed something rare indeed. I don’t know your whole history or line of political thinking, I do know that your speech today was one of the most encouraging speeches I have heard in a long time, So as a man who also places his hope in the mercy of the Lord, I encourage you to continue on the good fight your are called to do. God bless you sir. Ps. If you ever ran for the office of president for this nation, I would Vote for you. Sincerely Scott Van Zandt Mn

I like the independence, and your argument. I think there are more and more people agree

I'm new to Georgia--moved down from up north. I'm just amazed at the difference in attitudes about politics. Even more, the anger with which people express themselves regarding same. Neither my husband nor I certainly will not vote for anyone who will say "no" to anything and everything. It shows a childisnness we cannot abide. God is our judge--no one else. Keep an open mind. The pressure is so much less if you do.