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My name is Christopher Panasuk. I'm running for the United States House of Representatives Congressional District 3 in Maryland.
I am a technician with Verizon and everyday I must employ logic and simple common sense to fix problems. I have found that in order to fix these problems in most cases I must turn to the original documentation for a piece of equipment and I believe that the problems of our country can be fixed in the same manner. The Constitution is our government’s original documentation. For a long time this government has lost its way, and has moved away from the principles of our Founding Fathers. Logic and simple common sense have been lost and we have allowed a government of huge, over-reaching power to develop.
“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.”
Abraham Lincoln
The legacy of Liberty and Freedom left for us by the Founding Fathers, and both the political elite and the common men of the time who rose together to meet an extraordinary situation are my inspiration. We have enough of the political elite. What we need more of is common men. I am a common man, I have lived a life of adversity and risen above it. Now I hope also to rise up and help turn our country to a more reasonable path. For far too long in this country we have allowed the so-called “elite” to run things. These are people who seem to have forgotten that the first responsibility of the government is to protect the Liberty of its people, not take it away.
“We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.” Thomas Jefferson
For example, the US Code is 50,782 pages, just the portion that is the tax code contains more than 3.4 million words. If printed with 60 lines to a page, it would fill more than 7500 standard letter-sized pages. How can the average citizen have Liberty when the law is so far removed from them? How can some of our people, people without higher education, be expected to know the law when some of the most learned among us cannot understand it, even with years of schooling? The law can be, and should be, a simple matter. Our Founders managed to cover what they felt was most important in 4 pages, using common everyday language. Over the years lawyers and judges have taken those common words and changed them, little by little, into the mountain of paper we have today.
“It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government.”
Alexander Hamilton
Why I'm running
My grandfather, a Pentecostal preacher, once said in a sermon “There are those that take the words of Jesus Christ and try to interpret them. You can not do this because if you take the words of the Lord and interpret them you make them the words of Man. You need to take the words for what they say and live by them.”It was this idea that influenced my thoughts on the Constitution. Why would someone take the words from it, and try to interpret its meaning when what it says is clearly laid out. I believe that in this, lawmakers do the Founding Fathers a great disservice. The Founding Fathers knew that this government would evolve, and they did not intend for it to stay static, but the processes by which it changes was not made to be easy because they felt changes should only be made with much thought and debate.
I am for a return to government for the people, by the people, and a return to a day when the laws of the land were clearly laid out for the people of our great nation in a comprehensible way. The bureaucracy and elitism of our government have obfuscated the law so that the average citizen can not understand the law, thus making the average man dependent on them.
"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."
Thomas Jefferson
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