Are We Listening to our Founding Fathers?

“Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.” –George Washington

“A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned – this is the sum of good government.” –Thomas Jefferson

Our founding fathers were trying to warn us, their words echoing into our present.  But are we listening?  We would be wise to heed what they said lest we be doomed to repeat the history of those that came before us.

The liberals in power today proselytize about minorities and the under-privileged.  They seek to resolve all of the wrongs of yesterday and today by creating government programs that, like Superman swooping in to save us all, will make everyone have the same opportunities.

In fact, their record shows just the opposite.  They are, in fact, more aligned with big banks and the upper echelons of the labor unions, and have no interest in really helping the underlings on whose shoulders they stride.  Their programs of welfare and handouts serve only to create a far larger group of people who will be more incentivized to suckle the government’s teats, whose milk comes from our hard work.  The more who are unemployed, the more who are benefiting from government programs, the more that will vote for liberals to institute new government programs.  All of this ensures that liberals will receive more and more votes.

They wish to eradicate the idea of “individual responsibility”, and along with it, “individual liberty”.  That is what is behind the health care bill, the cap and trade bill, the stimulus bill, and more to come.  They are trying to change our country as quickly as possible before they lose their majority, because they know that once a bill is passed into law, it is far harder, if not impossible, to undo it.  And the sooner this country becomes one large mass who is dependent on the government for everything from breakfast to dinner, diapers to coffins, the more entrenched their party will become, until we are a single party government.  A politburo, to be exact.

Allow me to show you, remembering all the while that it is small business that has been the backbone for our free market, introducing new ideas, new inventions, innovating past obstacles, and employing our workers:

• Health Insurance Bill.  Let’s start by making sure we are using the right terms.  This is not about health care reform.  All Americans have access to health care, some of the best health care in the world!  If the liberals were serious about this, they would ignore the money that was being jammed into their wallets by lobbyists working for the lawyers, and begin with something that really matters.  Talk to your doctor the next time you go in for a visit and say these two words: “tort reform.”  When you are done ducking, you will understand their pain.  Nor have the liberals addressed competition of insurance companies across all 50 states.  This bill will raise taxes on everyone, threaten fines and jail for those that do not pay into the system, and force small companies to lay off people, increasing unemployment.  Remember, small businesses will be the most hurt by this bill.  And the major piece, the real sticking point, is that it will put a bureaucrat between you and your own freedom of choice.  And yes, Wilson was right.  Obama lied.  The liberals want the illegal immigrants to be covered by this new health insurance bill.  Why?  That’s another piece to the puzzle, because by having this in the bill, illegals will continue to vote for liberals.
• Allowing Felons to vote.  Speaking of voting, several states, including Washington, are considering legislation that will let convicted felons vote.  Why?  Because these folks generally vote for liberals.
• Maxine Waters.  In 2008, Maxine Waters let slip what she is all about: socializing the oil companies (go to 1 minute into the video).  Taking over the energy companies is crucial to the liberals’ plans.  If we have to be dependent on the government for our own personal health and access to energy, we become slaves to the government.
• Pelosi.  Pelosi has become rather brazen lately.  She has openly attacked Americans, you and me, for exercising our right to question those that serve us in elected office, and our right to protest decisions we don’t like.  She might need to be reminded of what when on during Bush’s 8 years in office.  When she became Speaker, she committed to have an open House of Representatives, and to ending slimy politics and corruption.  Under her watch, sleazy deals have been negotiated for the health insurance bill.  And it has been anything but open, isolating Republicans, even changing the locks on doors.  Have you seen President Obama go to closed door meetings with the liberals.  Are any Republicans allowed in?  Any cameras?  And with Rangel as chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, she looks silly.  After all, he is being investigated by the House Ethics Committee for failing to report hundreds of thousands of dollars.  How ironic?!  If he were a Republican, the press would be having a field day with this one.
• President Obama.  Where to begin?  He has endangered the security of this country.  When the Christmas Day Bomber incident broke, it took him three days before he addressed the nation.  Three days?!  And it took him 3 or 4 speeches before he found the right tone.  Closing Guantanamo Bay sends a strong signal to our enemies that we are weak.  Mirandizing them sends an even stronger message that we aren’t willing to fight.  Calling these attacks the work of ‘lone nuts’ and saying that we are not in a War against Terrorism defeats us before we even begin to fight.  But the absolute worst thing Obama is doing now, the thing that will weaken us the most, is giving Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and others a criminal trial in New York City, costing that city hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars, insulting the innocent people that were killed on 9/11 and the families that survive them, and giving KSM a platform to voice his ridiculous propaganda.  Clearly, as Cheney says in this interview, we have a precedent for a military trial.  But no, instead we afford this horrible man, who admits to being the architect of 9/11, the rights reserved for our citizens, the very ones he plotted to kill.  And all the while a Navy SEAL, who was charged with allegedly punching a terrorist he captured, basically a national hero, is being sent to Iraq for a trial there.  How does this make any sense?  And no, there are zero witnesses to corroborate the terrorist’s claim he was punched, but his claim is however, straight out of Al-Qaeda’s playbook.
• President Obama Redux.  It doesn’t end with national security.  President Obama wants to pass a Cap and Trade Bill that will once again hit small businesses the hardest, and send millions of manufacturing jobs over to countries like India, Mexico and China, who have already said they will not follow Obama’s strict regulations on pollution.  So, we lose jobs to other countries creating more unemployment, Goldman Sachs and other ‘fat cats’ make money off of companies trading off their excess pollution, and the overall pollution of the earth is not changed one iota.  Hooray for Obama.

There’s more.  Lots more.  Tonight, I am hopeful that Scott Brown will be elected to Massachusetts’s open Senatorial seat, breaking the super-majority that the liberals have in the Congress.  That may be enough to stop this monstrous health insurance bill, and maybe even the cap and trade disaster too.

Obama, Pelosi, Reid, they want to create a country where a small political elite lives well off the backs of everyone else.  There will be no innovators.  No awe-inspiring agendas like going to the moon.  The U.S. dollar will descend into oblivion.  We will no longer be a super power.  With equal opportunity for everyone, comes equal results from all of us.  Equal results.  Nothing extraordinary.

We, all of us, need to take back this country.  I see artists, musicians and actors wearing “Che” t-shirts, and now even “Mao” t-shirts.  They clearly don’t know their history because both men would have these very same artists, musicians and actors be the first people executed if they were in power today.  What’s a few more to the slaughter when you have killed 10 times the number of men, women and children that Hitler did?

If we do not study history, if we do not learn from those before us, we have no one to blame but ourselves.