Edwardsburg’s Mark Jamrog

CASSOPOLIS — San Francisco harbor needs a Statue of Responsibility to balance New York’s Statue of Liberty because one cannot exist without the other.
Mark Jamrog of Edwardsburg said at Sunday afternoon’s Tea Party Tax Day rally public officials need to take seriously their oath to uphold and defend the Constitution.
“They go do what they please to buy votes,” Jamrog said. “I’m a conservative, but I leave room on the Democratic side that there are strong arguments. The oath binds Democrats and Republicans together.”
“All money in government comes from wealth created in the private sector,” Jamrog said. “To take one more dollar than absolutely necessary does great harm to our society. It distorts markets. It says we should have more marble to build palaces of government than bricks to build homes. There is one pie of liberty with a constant struggle between government and the people as to who gets the bigger slice.”
Liberty is the freedom to think or act guaranteed in the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights and the Constitution, but there “can’t be liberty without responsibility,” Jamrog said. “A government of, by and for the people requires hard work.”
Circulating petitions for a U.S. Senate candidate put him in contact with an estimated 4,000 people, of which the “largest group doesn’t care and doesn’t care that they don’t care. That is a malignant cancer growing on this society. Liberty cannot exist without responsibility. We can blame the people at the statehouse and in the federal government. They’re certainly culpable, but we should look in the mirror first. A lot of people don’t know there’s a Senate race coming up.
“After 40 years in industry, it’s disturbing people think governments collect taxes. They take them.”
Jamrog said the Department of Education, which didn’t exist prior to 1973, and the Department of Energy should be eliminated in three to five years to start “systematically and methodically reducing the size of government.”
“The Government Services Administration spent almost $1 million on a party,” Jamrog said. “Evil will triumph if good people sit idly by.”
“We know our country’s in trouble and if we don’t turn it around, we’re going to lose it,” Chairman-elect Wally Berndt said.