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

We the people

Read these words from the ending paragraph of our Declaration of Independence –

‘And for the support of this Declaration,
with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence,
we mutually pledge to each other
our Lives,
our Fortunes and
our sacred Honor.

Consider the level of trust in God as well as the sacrifices made for God and country by our founding fathers…..how much faith and trust are we willing to place in divine Providence to restore our country ? What sacrifices are we willing to make ?

In this day of ‘me-isms’ as well as special interest groups and select special classes of people that seek to isolate and pit us against one another, who and where are the true patriots willing to stand up for our amazing country and pledge their lives, their fortunes and their honor to restore our country to ‘a more perfect union’ ?

To stand firmly upon the ideals established in our Declaration of Independence and our Constitution.

To understand that freedom comes with a cost and that cost is responsibility and sacrifice.

To reach an understanding that a strong country insures our freedom’s continuing benefits.

To reason together within the bounds of our founding ideals of democracy thereby securing the blessings of liberty for our future as a sovereign nation.

To restore honor to the virtues of self discipline and honesty and integrity

To rekindle our pride in the ideals that founded our country – life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

To acknowledge the benefits of hard work and of a job well done.

To remove the growing undercurrent of reliance upon government entitlements and the mentality of victimization.

To disengage the growing tide of class warfare that has been continually escalating by those who do not have a firm belief in our country’s founding ideals.

To restore accountability and fiscal responsibility to our systems of spending and taxation at all levels of government, soundly rejecting socialistic trends.

To recognize and appreciate our diverse cultural heritages yet stand together as one nation indivisible.

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America…

Paul R. Barriball (April 2008)