He asks John for 3-5 hot topics, to which John replies:  Individual liberty, respect for the Constitution and the free market.

Nancy Pelosi’s jet transportation has costs the American taxpayers $21- to $28-million over the last 3 years, and we are borrowing 1/3rd of that money.  “That to me is unconscionable,” he says.
Dennis has the ambitious goal of ending the IRS, saying that we do not need the income tax to fund the government, despite popular belief.

When asked about the drug war, he recognizes the futility, saying: “I think we’ve seen that we’re not prohibiting anybody from doing anything.”  We are creating an underclass of former prisoners and costing a fortune, all for what?   Liberty is not a “salad bar”; if you are going to accept it, you have to accept the whole package.

He also feels the 700+ bases around the world need to be reevaluated from a socio-economic perspective.  We really should stop at “what is constitutional” and what isn’t.  Upon review, we may find that these bases do not make us safer, and certainly are not affordable.

Regarding Social Security, John considers it a pyramid scheme that depends on population growth.  We should allow people to opt out of the system and be responsible for their own retirement.

World Net Daily posted a lengthy article about John Dennis, who is running against Nancy Pelosi next year.

The attention is well deserved, as the liberty candidate (running Republican) shares many of the nation’s grievances over the House Speakers irresponsible actions in recent times.

He blasted Pelosi’s “disastrous” legislative agenda advocating government-run health care, cap and trade and the Cybersecurity Act of 2009, a bill that would give the president “emergency” control of the Internet.

“Everything that Nancy Pelosi has her hands on is anti-liberty and pro-government power,” Dennis said, with a laugh

Dennis is a successful businessman and real estate investor.  He is very concerned with our nation’s spend-thrift attitude, especially considering our current economic meltdown.

He said the nation cannot ignore a $12.5 trillion mountain of debt that doesn’t include unfunded liabilities.

“We have no choice, we’ve got to do this,” he said. “Either that, or we’re going to debase the dollar and have a back-door default on what we owe. That will create chaos in the world.”

Dennis calls cap-and-trade a “poor excuse for a new tax.”

Regarding the Department of Education, he brings up an example unfamiliar to most Americans: Holland.

“What I found was, instead of the money going to the schools, the money followed the kids,” he said. “That’s the objective – to actually have the money go to the kids as opposed to being stuck in schools or some bureaucratic organization like the Department of Education, which may be the single biggest waste of money in the federal government.”

Dennis is an NRA member and proud gun owner.

“You have the right to your person, and you have the right to your property,” he said. “Without the right to defend your property and your person, then those rights are meaningless. That just goes without saying.”

He believes in allowing the free market to work properly, meaning that the government should step aside on such issues as healthcare and social security, which he believes citizens should be able to opt out of, considering it has become a “pyramid scheme.”

Above all, he is a constitutionalists, suggesting most of our problems can be solved simply by resuming our nation’s original governing intent.

“I want to go back and look at every portion of the budget and say, ‘Is this constitutional, or isn’t it?’” he said. “If it isn’t, let’s cut it and manage to somehow create a surplus as opposed to a deficit. Let’s start paying down the debt that we owe.”

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