Even though I am not a country music fan I happened to catch this song as I was TV channel surfing one day…
Very worth listening to the message of this song as we prepare for Memorial Day.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WB76cYS8Ehw
Saturday, May 30, 2009
Saturday, May 2, 2009
conservative forfeit
Conservatives have forfeited their place at the policy table and we are going to have pay the price…We did not stand firm on fiscal nor social policy issues while we had the opportunity and the ability to provide ‘foundational direction’ to our country…and now, due to our complete failure to provide that direction, the left (ie: monstrous government control ideologues) has taken complete control of the executive, legislative and soon, the judicial branches of our federal government - we are now along for the ride…unable to stop the freight train that is a coming !
It appears that our country will have to hit rock bottom before we can turn the tide. I base this prediction on the fact that there has, throughout our country, been created a pervasive mentality that, accepts as fact, the government does indeed have all of the answers to the ills that beset us. Additionally, that we must not think or act as ‘we the people’ any longer but await the wisdom as spewed forth from our leaders in Washington – and that answer from Washington is ALWAYS spend more money and add more regulation! We have now ingrained into our society an entitlement expectancy that does not see nor perceive the danger of relying on a select few to rule their lives by the power of fiat.
A comparative analogy for what we have coming is the pain that we are currently experiencing within the housing crisis. We built up a mortgage process in our country that relied upon government intervention as well as incestuous relationships between the GSEs (Fannie and Freddie) and Congress. The housing bubble grew, market price appreciation skyrocketed, speculation flourished, from Wall Street to Main Street everyone was talking about the new paradigm that could continue unabated – risk was all but a thing of the past. All of this was being built upon shifting sand – financial chicanery using leverage, government induced excessive risk taking and easy monetary policy. And now we are paying the price for this governmental tinkering induced great recession – and again our federal leadership’s answer is more money and more regulation! Liberty and freedom be damned – it’s a crisis and only the wisdom of our government can fix it for us.
It appears that our country will have to hit rock bottom before we can turn the tide. I base this prediction on the fact that there has, throughout our country, been created a pervasive mentality that, accepts as fact, the government does indeed have all of the answers to the ills that beset us. Additionally, that we must not think or act as ‘we the people’ any longer but await the wisdom as spewed forth from our leaders in Washington – and that answer from Washington is ALWAYS spend more money and add more regulation! We have now ingrained into our society an entitlement expectancy that does not see nor perceive the danger of relying on a select few to rule their lives by the power of fiat.
A comparative analogy for what we have coming is the pain that we are currently experiencing within the housing crisis. We built up a mortgage process in our country that relied upon government intervention as well as incestuous relationships between the GSEs (Fannie and Freddie) and Congress. The housing bubble grew, market price appreciation skyrocketed, speculation flourished, from Wall Street to Main Street everyone was talking about the new paradigm that could continue unabated – risk was all but a thing of the past. All of this was being built upon shifting sand – financial chicanery using leverage, government induced excessive risk taking and easy monetary policy. And now we are paying the price for this governmental tinkering induced great recession – and again our federal leadership’s answer is more money and more regulation! Liberty and freedom be damned – it’s a crisis and only the wisdom of our government can fix it for us.
personal liberty and freedom
If you believe in personal liberty and freedom why would you ever want bigger government? Government eats away at liberty and freedom as it intertwines its tentacles and daily reaches into every segment of our lives….the more government involvement in your life the less liberty and freedom you will have. Government is not the answer it is the problem as a great president once said.
Our federal government’s role is to provide oversight and direction so that liberty and freedom may flourish. And our constitution dictates what that role is – yet we the people have lost our zeal to protect it! The power of government (to legislate, tax and spend) has created a goliath that has overreached well beyond its primary directive. Prior to FDR and the New Deal et al the federal government spent less money than the states – since FDR that ratio has continued to move in the wrong direction in the name of promoting the general welfare of our nation (and we all know that money, and ability to apportion it, means power and control). This continued assault on our liberty has created a cabal of power centered in a very few hands. And under the new administration the federal government is set to spend trillions and become the largest government in the history of the world!
How will that effect the liberty and freedom of the people of the United States?
Are you prepared to be beholden to those few in Washington who control the process?
I do not believe that the founders of this great nation would be impressed with where we have taken this country – after they pledged their lives, their fortunes and their honor to make this country the freest nation in the history of the world.
Our federal government’s role is to provide oversight and direction so that liberty and freedom may flourish. And our constitution dictates what that role is – yet we the people have lost our zeal to protect it! The power of government (to legislate, tax and spend) has created a goliath that has overreached well beyond its primary directive. Prior to FDR and the New Deal et al the federal government spent less money than the states – since FDR that ratio has continued to move in the wrong direction in the name of promoting the general welfare of our nation (and we all know that money, and ability to apportion it, means power and control). This continued assault on our liberty has created a cabal of power centered in a very few hands. And under the new administration the federal government is set to spend trillions and become the largest government in the history of the world!
How will that effect the liberty and freedom of the people of the United States?
Are you prepared to be beholden to those few in Washington who control the process?
I do not believe that the founders of this great nation would be impressed with where we have taken this country – after they pledged their lives, their fortunes and their honor to make this country the freest nation in the history of the world.
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