Forest Baker's Issue Positions (Political Courage Test)
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Forest Baker refused to tell citizens where he stands on any of the issues addressed in the 2010 Political Courage Test, despite repeated requests from Vote Smart, national media, and prominent political leaders.
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- Forest Baker. Blog: Forest Baker: The government is never efficient with what it does. 19 October 2010. "The government is never efficient with what it does. Indeed, when in doubt and if they have the money available then they are very much inclined to recklessly throw money at problems. We also do that when we fight a war: we deploy overwhelming force and that approach costs lots of money. There is always too much overhead when any organization (such as the Department of Education) is very large. Therefore, the government should only do those things that we cannot do for ourselves 'better, faster and cheaper' than they would. The idea that we would not educate our kids really well all on our own is simply wrong. Most families everywhere in the world are quite concerned with the good and the future of their children. We did fine with the Catholic parish parochial schools at very low cost per student?up until the 1970's when the government decided that public education was a good business to get themselves into. Same sort of thing with health care. Those costs went up but the relative quality of service (and measurable outcomes) declined. Instead of reforming public education or further socializing medicine We the People should start taking those services back into our own hands. A Libertarian approach to American society implies decentralization away from the central government toward a much more Jeffersonian model." (forest4congress2010.wordpress.com)
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- Forest Baker. Blog: Immigration: Stop the trafficking, defeat the cartels. 19 October 2010. "Laws are not very meaningful (as a suggestion to people who make their money breaking laws) if there is no mechanism to enforce such rules. When the bad guys know we cannot 100% (or even 10%) inspect carloads of drugs, contraband (or people) at the border because the volume of traffic makes this impossible, then they play the numbers that most of their lawbreaking will get past us. I'm suggesting a mechanism, that has been proved to work in places like the Philippines and that would essentially eliminate large-scale smuggling across our borders. The 80:20 rule applies. Once we have that bulk flow under control then we can focus on the much harder job of stopping one man a time on foot. If there are no drugs to distribute then the wholesale criminal personnel would not be coming over here to set up shop, for example, and that is the largest part of this problem. The government has libraries full of laws that are not enforced or even enforceable with the resources they underwrite. It's politics as usual, at our expense and the problems only get worse. Elect better politicians." (forest4congress2010.wordpress.com)
- Forest Baker. Blog: Forest Baker calls for "Rally Against Political Racism" on 9/25. 19 October 2010. "We should be talking about the War in Afghanistan that is being prosecuted by this President in such a manner that it can never be brought to a successful conclusion, and our Commander in Chief cannot back down after he has escalated this war himself (see Nixon regarding Vietnam), without bringing defeat on the United States at the hands of a few hundred Al Qaeda and the Taliban we crushed in only a few days, 9 years ago," Baker said." (forest4congress2010.wordpress.com)
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