Why I support the Contract from America

As reported today (of all days) in the New York Times: The contract, to use its own language, asks candidates to agree to:

1) protect the Constitution;

2) reject cap-and-trade regulation of climate-warming gases;

3) demand a balanced budget;

4) enact fundamental tax reform;

5) restore fiscal responsibility and constitutionally limited government in Washington;

6) end runaway government spending;

7) defund, repeal and replace government-run health care;

8) pass an “all-of-the-above” energy policy (referring, in part, to the exploration of domestic energy reserves);

9) stop the pork; and

10) stop the tax hikes."

My take on this:

1. I like the Constitution. I swore an oath to uphold it when I gained citizenship. We can always argue about the interpretation while drinking tea and hurling insults at each other. 

2. I have a problem with this one. Cap and trade sounds like a market, where people make deals and get rich. As an American I favor anything that gives me a slimmer of hope that I could make a million bucks or more.

3. My household uses a balanced budget approach. Works for us. 

4. I favor fundamental reform of any kind. Whether it is fundamental reform of taxes or the Constitution for that matter.  

5. Just love limited government. I love elections too and the ability of we the people to decide what we want by a majority vote. Can't get my head around unlimited government. Have always been troubled by the whole idea of infinity. Differential equations and integration were never my strong suit. 

6. We must end runaway government spending. Only leads to accidents. But we already took care of this with the balanced budget thing. 

7. As long as I can use my personal fortune to go to any doctor I want, swallow any pill I can get my hands on, I am ok with the left and the right fighting about the words.

8. I agree that we need to extract energy from all possible sources. So does the Leninist socialist Marxist Obama. Yikes, how did he get in here?

9. Pork is the other white meat. Enough white meat already. 

10. I favor getting rid of all taxes that impact me and my family. No exceptions. Sorry, I am ok with those that impact you.