Government intervention (at all levels but especially at the federal level) has meant the continued steady erosion of and intrusion upon our liberties and freedoms as established by the founding ideals of our country. It has been a process where the government has obfuscated them from the people, taken ever increasing levels of control and placed them in the hands of the centralized government – and we wonder why we have problems in our country !
Here are some examples:
1) Laws that regulate – these laws have been created to ‘dissuade the evil doers’ who were able to take advantage of people. These laws and their resultant regulatory interpretations end up growing upon themselves, enslaving all not just the ‘evil doers’, while taking on a life of their own – eating away at our freedoms and liberties.
2) The continued frightening levels of legislation that are added to the books every single year that tightens the grip of federalist control continually adding enormous burden upon burden on the people – all while ‘alleviating’ our freedoms (the number of laws on our books has grown exponentially over the last 50 years)
3) The paradoxical laws and resultant judicial decisions – our federal government says that you can not discriminate (neither overtly nor disparately) under penalty of law yet our government allows certain classes of people to be discriminated against due to their closely held beliefs. One blatant example of this is the government’s support for the killing of innocent unborn children – this is the ultimate discriminatory treatment !
And we do these things all in the name of ‘social justice and fairness’ and yet justice is not being served – we have created a system where ‘we the people’ are being discriminated against by our own government (and that’s acceptable?).
Our government, that was founded upon the premise of limited government, has now become the primary director (dictator) of all that we do in this country…the founding ideals of limited government and freedom are all but a memory of the past.
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Saturday, April 4, 2009
Saturday, January 24, 2009
Leadership dilemma
When you contemplate the role that our country’s leadership has played one can see where we, as a country, have relied upon the ‘proud’ and those who ‘lapse into falsehood’ to lead us ! We have, in leadership today, those who created and exacerbated the issues (as well as sustaining existing ones) that have led us to the crisis that we find ourselves in. The undeniable lack of wisdom that has permeated our legislative, judicial and executive process has returned to rule the roost !
We have exchanged true wisdom for band aide philosophies and rhetoric filled metaphors.
The lack of true wisdom can be traced to the inability of the ‘new world person of vision’ to acknowledge history (not the adulterated version that has been foisted upon us), understand cause and effect, accept that there are universal truths that cannot be denied and believe that this country’s founding ideals are not as shifting sands.
The current trend that populates our leadership is littered with those who have a flagrant disdain for the concepts of personal liberty, personal responsibility and personal accountability. While displaying arrogance as well as a hunger for control and power they have side stepped, or should I say trampled upon, the role that serving their country was ordained to be by our founders.
- Where are the leaders who will seek after true wisdom that will provide foresight and focus on a long term vision that builds upon the solid foundation that we once had ? (leaders that will truly seek to SERVE our country and not be served…)
- When will we awaken to the fact that our present leadership is ‘living for the moment’ while unraveling the foundation that has made us a free nation ? (unwise actions have far reaching consequences…)
- Where are those who will combat the ‘live for today for tomorrow we die’ mentality that scurries after immediate gratification ? (not everything can be fixed by money being thrown at the problem and not all problems can be resolved overnight…)
- Where are the leaders who understand that a nation built upon entitlement will not be a free country very long ? (servants are beholden to their masters…)
As a nation we are approaching an era where we will have given up our birth right for a bowl of pottage !
How blessed is the man who has made the LORD his trust,
And has not turned to the proud, nor to those who lapse into falsehood.
Psalm 40:4
As we look at our country today and where we appear to be headed this verse from the Psalms provides a roadmap for us to follow. Let us stand firm in our resolve to trust in the Lord and not lean on the proud nor to those who lapse into falsehood for our answers…for I desire not to be an Esau !
We have exchanged true wisdom for band aide philosophies and rhetoric filled metaphors.
The lack of true wisdom can be traced to the inability of the ‘new world person of vision’ to acknowledge history (not the adulterated version that has been foisted upon us), understand cause and effect, accept that there are universal truths that cannot be denied and believe that this country’s founding ideals are not as shifting sands.
The current trend that populates our leadership is littered with those who have a flagrant disdain for the concepts of personal liberty, personal responsibility and personal accountability. While displaying arrogance as well as a hunger for control and power they have side stepped, or should I say trampled upon, the role that serving their country was ordained to be by our founders.
- Where are the leaders who will seek after true wisdom that will provide foresight and focus on a long term vision that builds upon the solid foundation that we once had ? (leaders that will truly seek to SERVE our country and not be served…)
- When will we awaken to the fact that our present leadership is ‘living for the moment’ while unraveling the foundation that has made us a free nation ? (unwise actions have far reaching consequences…)
- Where are those who will combat the ‘live for today for tomorrow we die’ mentality that scurries after immediate gratification ? (not everything can be fixed by money being thrown at the problem and not all problems can be resolved overnight…)
- Where are the leaders who understand that a nation built upon entitlement will not be a free country very long ? (servants are beholden to their masters…)
As a nation we are approaching an era where we will have given up our birth right for a bowl of pottage !
How blessed is the man who has made the LORD his trust,
And has not turned to the proud, nor to those who lapse into falsehood.
Psalm 40:4
As we look at our country today and where we appear to be headed this verse from the Psalms provides a roadmap for us to follow. Let us stand firm in our resolve to trust in the Lord and not lean on the proud nor to those who lapse into falsehood for our answers…for I desire not to be an Esau !
Monday, June 16, 2008
where are we headed
As we move ever closer to progressive socialism* in our country - that is the belief that we should place total reliance upon the government to meet all of our needs and solve all of our problems - we move further away from our founding ideals that made this country great – we the people NOT we the government !
Our government can presently be defined as –
1) a growing bureaucratic political power base controlled and directed by a small minority of power seeking elites
2) centered in the legislative branches creating multitudes of laws and regulations attempting to solve all of the ills of our country (and in reality creating more ills)
3) over the last 30 years a judicial branch (at all levels) that has unconstitutionally moved to legislate rather than adhere to their constitutional mandate to adjudicate
4) creating lifelong bureaucratic positions which abuse their constitutional mandated powers by creating the ability to
a. tax and spend without control
b. emaciate the value of our liberties as provided in our founding ideals
c. destroy the balance of power as detailed in our constitution
d. build a divisive country of people predicated upon the creation of an ever growing entitlement class
When will we, the people, awaken from this slumber that has slowly eroded our country and moved it so far from the greatness that resides in our founding ideals ?
The form of government we have allowed us to become a great country---not the government.
It is the individual (we the people) acting upon our responsibility as citizens of this great country to uphold and fortify the freedoms and liberties that have come at so great a cost that makes this country great – it is not for us to become any more reliant nor beholden upon the politicians and bureaucrats who seek to assuage their desire for power and control through our government….
*Progressive Socialism is defined as the political elites’ ever growing governmental control over our lives by way of -
1) continually escalating entitlement programs creating a dependent class,
2) unbridled legislative action dissipating the liberties of all Americans,
3) weakening and subsequent reduction of the our individual freedoms as guaranteed in our founding documents,
4) weakening and degradation of our founding ideals as espoused in our Declaration of Independence and our Constitution,
5) globalization of political power as opposed to our sovereign rights as a country,
6) the erosion of capitalism and free markets through political means
Our government can presently be defined as –
1) a growing bureaucratic political power base controlled and directed by a small minority of power seeking elites
2) centered in the legislative branches creating multitudes of laws and regulations attempting to solve all of the ills of our country (and in reality creating more ills)
3) over the last 30 years a judicial branch (at all levels) that has unconstitutionally moved to legislate rather than adhere to their constitutional mandate to adjudicate
4) creating lifelong bureaucratic positions which abuse their constitutional mandated powers by creating the ability to
a. tax and spend without control
b. emaciate the value of our liberties as provided in our founding ideals
c. destroy the balance of power as detailed in our constitution
d. build a divisive country of people predicated upon the creation of an ever growing entitlement class
When will we, the people, awaken from this slumber that has slowly eroded our country and moved it so far from the greatness that resides in our founding ideals ?
The form of government we have allowed us to become a great country---not the government.
It is the individual (we the people) acting upon our responsibility as citizens of this great country to uphold and fortify the freedoms and liberties that have come at so great a cost that makes this country great – it is not for us to become any more reliant nor beholden upon the politicians and bureaucrats who seek to assuage their desire for power and control through our government….
*Progressive Socialism is defined as the political elites’ ever growing governmental control over our lives by way of -
1) continually escalating entitlement programs creating a dependent class,
2) unbridled legislative action dissipating the liberties of all Americans,
3) weakening and subsequent reduction of the our individual freedoms as guaranteed in our founding documents,
4) weakening and degradation of our founding ideals as espoused in our Declaration of Independence and our Constitution,
5) globalization of political power as opposed to our sovereign rights as a country,
6) the erosion of capitalism and free markets through political means
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