Dan Reale is a freelance writer that lives with his wife, Kat, in Plainfield, CT. Soon, their twosome is set to become a threesome, as they are expecting the birth of their first child in July.

On his website, he describes his philosophy of good government as this: "I believe that the proper role of government is negative, not positive; defensive, not aggressive. The role of government is to protect, not to provide. If the state is to provide for some, it is to take from others. Upon granting the power to government in order provide, special interests would, and have, sought to use it for their own advantage. That advantage is no better than legalized piracy and oppression."

It is from there that we jump into the questions:

FF: I like your statement of principle about the nature of good government. Very Jeffersonian. Can you elaborate a little on that?

REALE: Read the preamble of the Constitution. Any government short of that purpose and intent is useless. Anything more than that is oppressive and wasteful, and ultimately destructive to its original purpose. Government is not reason. It is not force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.

Just government also sticks within the specific powers of its charter or constitution, as enumerated by the people.

And, like fire, or any tool, you don't use it to fix everything. For example, I don't fix my computer with a hammer. Government is only there to protect liberty, contracts and private property.

FF: Agreed. Of course, government has abandoned those principles. Is that why you are running?

REALE: I am running for office for several reasons.

The first of those reasons is $58 trillion in unfunded liabilities and obligations. Congress has raided Social Security and Medicare, in their entirety, every session without fail. We owe four times our GDP, today. The miracle of compounding interest is not working in our favor. This is our greatest national security threat. The two party system is only making it worse. It is taxing our great grandchildren beyond starvation.

Secondly, the value of the dollar is being eroded fast. 20 years ago, someone making $200,000 was considered wealthy. Today, that's upper middle class. It used to be possible to support a family, two cars, two children and a mortgage on one job and a high school education. The reason for this is the Federal Reserve, which counterfeits money and siphons purchasing power away from citizens and toward Wall Street. By the time the counterfeited money reaches us, it's lost at least 10% of its value. This will only continue as long as the two party system continues. Today, it's terminal.,P> As you probably know, the dollar we gave the Fed in 1913 is worth less than four cents. That's radically different from the 1700's and 1800's when Lincoln and Washington paid virtually the same for a loaf of bread. I think Ben Bernanke is lying when he calls that "price stability".

Tying into the second reason, the Fed has essentially created an economy of debt. Today, 2/3 of our economy is based on retail and the credit necessary to buy useless things we don't need. It has sent our jobs overseas, eroded our manufacturing base and created a society of debtors.

By all reasonable estimates, the Fed has gone too far. It has now enabled what will become $6/gallon gas in the next two years in a best case scenario, depression in the worst. Credit was too easily available, and a panacea of junk bonds in the form of sub prime mortgages, credit instruments, etc., are coming due. The Fed does not have the power or the resources to stop this tidal wave of debt instruments which have gone bad, and we're talking about instruments with a notional value above $400 trillion, that is the amount of expected payments on those instruments. If you think Congress is dumb now, wait and see what the same people will do when things get really bad. I prefer not to wait.

Government, in its infinite wisdom, tries to bridge every financial gap by stealing more money from one class of people and handing it to another. Today, government at all levels is half the economy. Taking any more would physically require government to, well, take it.

Of course, I object when my friends are sent off to get shot at for wars that were never declared by Congress. That includes wars without a clear and consistent justification or clearly defined scope. I think that after 50 years of these stupid, pointless wars against countries that present no credible threat is enough. That's especially true with every administration that gets more drunk with power than its predecessors and closer to flirting with World War Three. I can't tell you how a third world war will be fought, however, I can guarantee that a fourth will be fought with sticks and rocks by the time the neocons get done with it.

Of course, not an objection from democratic or republican leadership. We the people and our property are just chattel to be managed in their eyes. Never have our liberties been under such a vicious assault in the entire history of our republic.

Personally, I'm disgusted. Enough is enough. I see no other candidates in my district willing to step up to the plate AND confront the source of the problem.

FF: Speaking of the Fed's effect on gas prices, reason magazine has an article out right now that shows that supply is up from last year, and relative demand is down, but prices are still higher. They attribute a lot of this to inflation, which, as they say, "The dollar has fallen in value by more than 30 percent against a Federal Reserve index of major currencies since 2002. This means that the price of imports, including oil, have gone up." How do you plan to fix this?

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