My mother is an elementary school teacher, every year she has a lesson that she uses to teach her students.

She gives every student in her class some money, (yes fake money).  She tells them that they can earn more money, that they can buy things with, and that they also must use this money to pay fees and dues.  She will determine when and how they are due.  She sends them on their merry way for the rest of the week.  Back to their usual lives, school work, recess, and lunch.  Whatever they do in their daily lives.  Shortly after that the lessons begin.

They receive money when they help in the classroom, when they turn in their work, when they do nice things for others, but they don’t get paid in full.  They only receive some of the money they earned.  The teacher keeps some of it.

The student needs to sit at a desk to do his work, which they need a permit for. But if he doesn’t get the permit, there is a fee.  If the student needs to sharpen a pencil, that’s a fee. Raise their hand to ask a question, that’s a fee. If they need a piece of paper for their work, that’s a fee.  If they talk out of turn, that’s a fee. Outside for recess and they step on the grass, that’s a fee.  To get on the bus to go home, that’s a fee. The teacher continues to make up reasons to charge the students more and more fees.  It goes on, and on, and on, for days.

These students earn money, but they can’t keep it and use it for what they want or need.  They get charged more in fees than they make.  After a while they start yelling, complaining, throwing tantrums, and flat-out refusing to pay a fee, they do not have any more money to pay for the fee that they are being demanded to pay.

Parents start calling the teacher.  They don’t understand what is happening at school, other than their children are very upset because they keep getting charged these fees for everything they do.

She explains to the parents what the lesson is teaching, and they laugh and tell her to continue.

At the end of the week, these students learn about the history of the revolutionary war.  The tyranny and taxing of the people in everything they do in their lives.  Why the colonists were unhappy with the King and the British.

Every year during the first 5 months of the year, in Washington State, and across the country.  A plethora of documents gets proposed by legislators that are supposed to be representing the people.

These documents consist of new rules that the populace is going to have to live by, whether or not they agree to these rules or whether these new rules, are legal or not.

These rules known as bills consist of new taxes, new fees, and new rules that will affect our daily lives.

New mandated things that your children are to learn.  Whether or not you can protect yourself, and how much you are allowed to protect yourself. Down to whether or not you can use the water on your own property and for what you need to use the water for. But don’t forget you must ask for permission (permit) to use that said water.

Today is Sunday 29^th of January 2023, It’s only 20 days into this years legislative session and there are 1356 new proposed laws for just this year alone.

Many of them demand more money from the people (taxes), or new rules that we must live by (laws).  These bills will go into effect without the people’s consent.  Our representatives will accept on our behalf, and we are just supposed to accept that we must live this way.

I can only imagine the average citizen, not understanding that there are 1356 new proposed rules they must live by daily.  And we have 85 more days to go.  85 more days of new bills, and new laws.

*****These stats are from Washington State, but you will find similar stats in your state. ****

In the 2021 session, there were a total of 2746 proposed bills.

In the 2019 session, there were a total of 4,372 proposed bills.

In the 2017 session, there were a total of 4,355 proposed bills.

And in the 2015 session, there were a total of 4,382 proposed bills.

Take these numbers as an average of 3963 per legislative session.  Multiply that by however many years you want to go back. 10, 20, 30.  Doesn’t matter.  Every year, we allow an average of 3963 new laws to be pushed onto the people.

Are we allowing ourselves to be pushed around as the school teacher did to the students?  Or are we going to stand up to our representatives and demand real representation?

Your representative may be really nice, maybe a great cheerleader, the darling of the district even. But is your representative adding to the problem?  Taxing and passing more laws against the people?

Does your representative realize they are only one legislator out of 98 representatives; of which many propose multiple bills?

Most people I know, just want to be left alone.  You leave me alone and I leave you alone.  We all live together on this rock, and we want to all just get along.

We help each other when we can and when we need to, and we do our best to take care of ourselves and our families.

With these stats, how do you expect to be able to live anymore?

With these stats how do you expect to live life without breaking the law or law you never knew about and a chance at living behind bars?

It is time to stand.  It is time to take back your rights and demand your right to life, liberty, and property.

Get involved.

By Leslie Williams, CLW Legislative Action Team Leader

Mom, Wife, Homeschool teacher, homesteader, homemaker.

Owner/Publisher

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Happy Monday and Welcome to Week 4 of the Legislative Session!

As promised, every Monday of the session we’re sending you our “Top 5” bills that have hearings or some kind of action happening in the legislature this week. There are certainly a lot more than 5, but we’ll try to pick the ones we feel are most important so you can direct your efforts to those. You can go to our Legislative Action Center at any time to see our full list of bills and calls to action if you want to dig in even deeper. 

Each of the bills we send you will have CLW representation testifying either in person or remotely. Click the links below the image to sign in and have your position noted for the legislative record (this is quick, easy and IMPORTANT!) For more calls to action, visit our Legislative Action Center

SB 5024 – Establishes a Parent’s Bill of Rights in education. This bill sponsored by Senator Perry Dozier would establish that parents are the primary stakeholders in their child’s education and give them rights to know what is being taught and by whom. We SUPPORT this bill.

SB 5441 Promoting the adoption of school district curricula that is diverse, equitable, and inclusive. This bill would require CRT to be taught in public schools. We OPPOSE this bill. 

SB 5232 Enhancing requirements for the purchase or transfer of firearms. Requires 10 day waiting period, firearm training and prohibiting firearms transfers prior to completion of a background check, and updating and creating consistency in firearms transfer and background check procedures. We OPPOSE this bill. 

SB 5179 increases access to the “Death with Dignity Act” by decreasing the waiting period from 15 days to 7 days and allowing for a wide range of providers to prescribe lethal drugs that can be sent via mail. We OPPOSE this bill. 

SB 5505 addresses Covid-19 pandemic related learning loss by expanding the school year. This bill will not fix the learning loss by expanding the school year by 5 days. The bill is too general and unfocused. We OPPOSE this bill. It is not a solution to the problem. 

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A quick recap of week 3:

We had 7 abortion bills heard on Tuesday. Our team testified on 6 of them, including, SJR 8202 which is the constitutional amendment to include abortion as a fundamental human right.

Julie Barrett also testified in opposition to SB 5242 which would prohibit cost-sharing for abortion – coverage from the Lynnwood Times:

Speaking against the bill was Julie Barrett, founder of Conservative Ladies of Washington. She said if cost-sharing is eliminated for abortion services, someone is going to have to pay for it, whether it is taxpayers, people receiving medical funding or people using insurance coverage. “We do not have endless funds to draw from the citizens of Washington State,” she said. “It is wrong for taxpayers and those using private insurance to have to shoulder the cost of abortion.”

Jeannie Magdua and Leslie Williams both testified on HB 1244 which would increase the maximum per pupil limit for enrichment levy authority. You can watch their testimonies back to back here: House Appropriations – TVW

The 5 “gun control” bills were discussed in Executive Hearing in the House Civil Rights & Judiciary Committee (HBs 1178, 1143, 1144, 1195 and 1240). The only bills advancing so far are HB 1240 (aka the “assault weapons” ban) and HB 1143. The senate companion bill to HB 1144 will be heard this week (see below).

HB 1333 had a public hearing last week and is scheduled for Executive Session on Tuesday, January 31. We recommend writing to all members of the committee. Please send an email to the committee members by clicking the button below.

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