"The only foundation for a useful education in a republic is to be laid in religion. Without this there can be no virtue, and without virtue there can be no liberty and liberty is the object and life of all republican governments." So proclaimed Benjamin Rush, one of the Founders of the United States and found in his work "On the Mode of Education Proper in a Republic" written in 1806.
Rush and the other Founders of this nation, despite today's pronouncements by the Progressives, were believers in God, Providence, religion and the need to adhere to religious and moral principles. Today we and most importantly our children are told that such things as religion and morals are passe. That is not the case and indeed following the godless, unethical and immoral Progressives may be the reason we are in the shape we are in today in our great nation.
There are those within our country who are pointing out that until we restore our morality we will remain a nation unable to solve our problems. If we do not get right with our God, our difficulties will continue and the leading issue is the matter of on demand abortion. This horrible practice is going to cause God to turn a deaf ear to our concerns. Given that we have now achieved the death of some 50 million innocents, would we blame Him for no longer listening.
Like the Founders and many of the inhabitants, I believe that the creation of our nation was not an accident. Prior to the arrival of the Europeans, North America was inhabited by American Indians who lived a hunter/gatherer life style that was nomadic. Starting in the 17th century we find everything from the religiously persecuted to the ne'er do well coming to North America from western Europe. From these immigrants came those who caused the revolutionary changes in America. At their very core was the belief that God and morality were important to the success of their endeavors. Indeed with the gaining of freedom from England, the Founders called on communities to erect schools based on religious tenets in order that the children become virtuous individuals. That, due to a misinterpretation of a letter written by Thomas Jefferson, is not longer the case in our public schools.
If you are a virtuous person you know it is important to your salvation. As the old joke goes it was the ten commandments not the ten suggestions and the Old Testament in particular sees God reminding us constantly who was responsible for getting us to a good point in our life. Indeed in Deuteronomy 5, Moses cautions his people to "do as the Lord, your God, has commanded you, not turning to the right or left...."
We have become a people who constantly talk about "the gray" of a matter and extenuating circumstances. We are told that there is more to an issue and that it isn't a "black and white" or "good or evil" world as though that causes one to be less compassionate. I would argue that the virtuous one will have more compassion then one who claims to be compassionate and throws the pregnant teenager under the knife for her abortion. There now, its all over go home and have a happy life.
Abortion is just one example of how we have lost our way and become a people with a fading morality. Drugs, alcohol, gambling all the old and new vices rear their ugly heads today and our children are constantly exposed to people acting badly. When they get into trouble we wonder why it happened with few of us pointing the finger in the proper direction because we have a million reasons to avoid taking responsibility for their actions.
At a time of the year when we celebrate the birth of our Saviour, let us remember how those who have gone before us had such faith in Him for the direction of their lives. I ask of you that you go back to those men who gave us the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. Read those documents and read what those enlightened men, guided my the Almighty, had to say about the grace of Divine Providence in their lives. Rest assured neither they or their world was perfect but I believe they were more confident in their path and more resolute in their ideas and convictions then we are today.
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Showing posts with label Constitution. Declaration of Independence. Show all posts
Friday, December 25, 2009
Monday, November 2, 2009
Capitalism Does Not Work
How many of you have heard someone say that the economic system that we know as capitalism does not work? This is interesting in that we haven't seen capitalism at work since July 2, 1890. That was the day that Republican President Benjamin Harrison signed the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. The act was written by Senator John Sherman, a Republican. It passed the Senate on April 8, 1890 with a 51-1 vote. It then passed the House by a 242-0 vote on June 20, 1890 and then went to the President.
The Sherman Anti-Trust act is referred to as "competition law" by attorneys. It acquired this name because Sherman was designed to stop companies or entities from ganging up on new business that might compete with the old companies. That sounds real good at first glance until you look at what really happened. This Act. for all intents and purposes, emasculated companies while turning them into banks for politicians.
Now what do I mean. If you were a businessman and the government was out to regulate you what might you do? Would you obey the regulations? Would you attempt to "persuade" or "lobby" the politicians to look upon your industry favorably and in so doing become a politician's cash cow. Would you befriend the politician to the point where you might get him to put you or your representative on the board that writes the regulations for your industry? Wouldn't that put you in the cat's seat? You could eliminate your competition with the stroke of a pen.
This is exactly what happened. Call them what you will "Captains of Industries" or "Robber Barons" these businessmen, these capitalists, were not going to lose their positions or their companies so they looked for ways to insure their positions and they found that money, dinners, fine cases of wine, and other junkets, purchased the loyalty of elected officials over those who elected them
The Sherman Act, that we could refer to as the assassin that slayed capitalism, was belligerently used by none other then that so called conservative president, Theodore Roosevelt. Teddy, pretending to do good for the common good, used the act to batter organizations like Standard Oil and then turned around and asked those nasty old businessmen for donations for his presidential campaigns. How do you spell hypocrisy? TR, however, was a piker when it came to Woodrow Wilson.
Wilson was a full fledged Progressive. He was an egotistic narcissist. He was a believer in eugenics and adhered to a belief in Social Darwinism. He supported the sterilization of the"feeble-minded." He believed that history evolved based on epochs and that the Constitution was, therefore, a "living document". He talked about the collective will and the need for a good administrator who understood the collective will and would lead the nation based on that. The Constitution and Declaration of Independence were simply old, moldy documents that were no longer viable documents capable of inspiring the people and the Nation.
More importantly, however, was that Wilson found out the importance of a crisis. Initially swearing that he would keep us out of World War I, Wilson walked us straight in to the last months of that war. Why? It caused the folks to rally round the central government. Wilson put into place the War Industries Board or WIB and he put the heads of companies or their representatives on that board. Wilson was then free to come up with two wonderful laws, the Espionage Act of 1917 and the Sedition Act of 1918. With these two pieces of legislation, both of them in contradiction to the First Amendment, Wilson was able to toss 150,000 Americans into prisons across the country simply because they spoke out against the war. You thought the Patriot Act was nasty.
Slowly but surely this nation took more and more steps toward socialism. The New Deal of FDR that among other things gave us the Social Security Trust Act. What a laugh that is particularly the word trust. Our elected officials found their way to power, to spend more and more money to do good things for us with our money. Like little children we got in line and said "do daddy do". Two of my favorite quotes come from two women, one a D and one an R, in the current Senate. Senator Barbara Mikulski who stated that she woke up every "morning trying to figure out what to do for her constituents". Don't you mean "do to your constituents" Senator. The other is Olympia Snowe from Maine who during the debate on health care in the Senate committees stated that only the government could solve the health care problem. This is what we have come too.
I could go on with the Great Society that gave us Medicare and Medicaid both going broke. Or the Plan D drug program given to us by George W. Bush. I thing you get my drift. The next time someone tells you capitalism does not work, ask them to define capitalism to you. Then ask them how they know that capitalism does not work tell them how do they know that since we haven't lived under capitalism since the day the Sherman Anti-Trust Act was signed by that black heart, Benjamin Harrison in 1890. Maye its time for a CHANGE.
The Sherman Anti-Trust act is referred to as "competition law" by attorneys. It acquired this name because Sherman was designed to stop companies or entities from ganging up on new business that might compete with the old companies. That sounds real good at first glance until you look at what really happened. This Act. for all intents and purposes, emasculated companies while turning them into banks for politicians.
Now what do I mean. If you were a businessman and the government was out to regulate you what might you do? Would you obey the regulations? Would you attempt to "persuade" or "lobby" the politicians to look upon your industry favorably and in so doing become a politician's cash cow. Would you befriend the politician to the point where you might get him to put you or your representative on the board that writes the regulations for your industry? Wouldn't that put you in the cat's seat? You could eliminate your competition with the stroke of a pen.
This is exactly what happened. Call them what you will "Captains of Industries" or "Robber Barons" these businessmen, these capitalists, were not going to lose their positions or their companies so they looked for ways to insure their positions and they found that money, dinners, fine cases of wine, and other junkets, purchased the loyalty of elected officials over those who elected them
The Sherman Act, that we could refer to as the assassin that slayed capitalism, was belligerently used by none other then that so called conservative president, Theodore Roosevelt. Teddy, pretending to do good for the common good, used the act to batter organizations like Standard Oil and then turned around and asked those nasty old businessmen for donations for his presidential campaigns. How do you spell hypocrisy? TR, however, was a piker when it came to Woodrow Wilson.
Wilson was a full fledged Progressive. He was an egotistic narcissist. He was a believer in eugenics and adhered to a belief in Social Darwinism. He supported the sterilization of the"feeble-minded." He believed that history evolved based on epochs and that the Constitution was, therefore, a "living document". He talked about the collective will and the need for a good administrator who understood the collective will and would lead the nation based on that. The Constitution and Declaration of Independence were simply old, moldy documents that were no longer viable documents capable of inspiring the people and the Nation.
More importantly, however, was that Wilson found out the importance of a crisis. Initially swearing that he would keep us out of World War I, Wilson walked us straight in to the last months of that war. Why? It caused the folks to rally round the central government. Wilson put into place the War Industries Board or WIB and he put the heads of companies or their representatives on that board. Wilson was then free to come up with two wonderful laws, the Espionage Act of 1917 and the Sedition Act of 1918. With these two pieces of legislation, both of them in contradiction to the First Amendment, Wilson was able to toss 150,000 Americans into prisons across the country simply because they spoke out against the war. You thought the Patriot Act was nasty.
Slowly but surely this nation took more and more steps toward socialism. The New Deal of FDR that among other things gave us the Social Security Trust Act. What a laugh that is particularly the word trust. Our elected officials found their way to power, to spend more and more money to do good things for us with our money. Like little children we got in line and said "do daddy do". Two of my favorite quotes come from two women, one a D and one an R, in the current Senate. Senator Barbara Mikulski who stated that she woke up every "morning trying to figure out what to do for her constituents". Don't you mean "do to your constituents" Senator. The other is Olympia Snowe from Maine who during the debate on health care in the Senate committees stated that only the government could solve the health care problem. This is what we have come too.
I could go on with the Great Society that gave us Medicare and Medicaid both going broke. Or the Plan D drug program given to us by George W. Bush. I thing you get my drift. The next time someone tells you capitalism does not work, ask them to define capitalism to you. Then ask them how they know that capitalism does not work tell them how do they know that since we haven't lived under capitalism since the day the Sherman Anti-Trust Act was signed by that black heart, Benjamin Harrison in 1890. Maye its time for a CHANGE.
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
A Need For Repealers and Restorers
In the election of 1912 the Democrats/Progressives put foreword a bespectacled governor from New Jersey, Woodrow Wilson. Wilson was the son of a Presbyterian minister and a southerner who was not all that opposed to slavery. He spent most of his early years in academia. He attended Princeton and became its president.
Were you to look at a picture of President Wilson you would not imagine him as a man intent on radical changes in the American system and yet that is what he wanted to do. He thought that a parliamentary system was best for us and be damned those old moldy documents that we refer to as the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. Wilson was full of himself with an ego larger then all outdoors. It was that ego that played a large part in his down fall.
Wilson is best remember for attempting to keep us out of war specifically World War I. That, of course did not happen and one has to wonder if that was his goal. Like Rahm Emanuel, Wilson realized that a lot could be gained from a crisis, particularly since it caused the nation to rally round the government.
While Wilson was able to point to the winning of the war, he failed when it came to the peace. Showing up at Versailles with all the cards in his hands, Wilson allowed Clemenceau and Lloyd George to run rough shod over him thus Wilson and America lost the peace. Back home the victorious Republicans under the leadership of Senator Henry Cabot Lodge defeated Wilson's primary goal to enter the League of Nations, Wilson's baby so to speak.
That is pretty much the history lesson taught to young Americans and while it is true and accurate one must look at additional dangerous accomplishments by this early Progressive. It was under Wilson's reign that this nation adopted the 16th Amendment to the Constitution that put into place the infamous income tax. This Amendment opened the door to an expansive and extensive government. No other item is so patently used to whip the populace into line then the United States Tax code. It is a monstrous and growing item that is used by Congress to curry favors with their financial contributors and the wealthy back home.
In addition to Amendment 16 is Amendment 17 that allowed for the election of Senators to the United States Congress. Up until the 17th's passage it was the state legislatures that selected the federal senators. While this allowed for some cases of corruption, Senator Timber, Senator Steel, it kept those men loyal to their state. Today our US Senators have no loyalty to their states because they need to travel across the nation to fund raising parties.
Wilson was a tremendous supporter of the 17th Amendment because his nemesis in the Congress was none other then Henry Cabot Lodge. Despite Wilson's working against Lodge, Lodge came out the winner when the good citizens of Massachusetts elected him to the Senate. Indeed it was Lodge who brought the letter to Wilson telling him that the Senate was in opposition to the League of Nations and it would not past that body.
In addition to repealing the 16th and 17t Amendment we need to review and tighten the reach of the Commerce Clause. Congress is permitted to regulate commerce with "foreign nations, the several states, and the Indian tribes." Of all the clauses within the Constitution none has been more abused then this one. Sneeze in one state while crossing into another and you will find yourself embroiled in a Supreme Court case to regulate nasal hair and all items associated with same.
Year after election year we are told by office seekers that they want to become our representative in order to reform the system. Now we have a president and czars who admittedly want to not just reform the system they want to replace it with fascism. What we truly need at all levels of government are REPEALERS.
G. K. Chesterton in his work entitled "Eugenics and Other Evil Things" points out that at one point REPEALERS in government were quite popular. Somewhere along the way the politicos agreed to not wipe out the other guy's policies thus the REPEALERS disappeared. The result; burgeoning budgets, massive government programs, laws upon existing laws, and a bureaucracy that is not only huge in its expansiveness, it runs our government at all levels. This bureaucracy is in place due to what was initially a good idea, Civil Service Testing. What is not good is that it is all but impossible to fire these employees and jobs have become generational. Next election question with boldness if your office seeker is willing to be a REPEALER willing to RESTORE those principles found in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.
Were you to look at a picture of President Wilson you would not imagine him as a man intent on radical changes in the American system and yet that is what he wanted to do. He thought that a parliamentary system was best for us and be damned those old moldy documents that we refer to as the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. Wilson was full of himself with an ego larger then all outdoors. It was that ego that played a large part in his down fall.
Wilson is best remember for attempting to keep us out of war specifically World War I. That, of course did not happen and one has to wonder if that was his goal. Like Rahm Emanuel, Wilson realized that a lot could be gained from a crisis, particularly since it caused the nation to rally round the government.
While Wilson was able to point to the winning of the war, he failed when it came to the peace. Showing up at Versailles with all the cards in his hands, Wilson allowed Clemenceau and Lloyd George to run rough shod over him thus Wilson and America lost the peace. Back home the victorious Republicans under the leadership of Senator Henry Cabot Lodge defeated Wilson's primary goal to enter the League of Nations, Wilson's baby so to speak.
That is pretty much the history lesson taught to young Americans and while it is true and accurate one must look at additional dangerous accomplishments by this early Progressive. It was under Wilson's reign that this nation adopted the 16th Amendment to the Constitution that put into place the infamous income tax. This Amendment opened the door to an expansive and extensive government. No other item is so patently used to whip the populace into line then the United States Tax code. It is a monstrous and growing item that is used by Congress to curry favors with their financial contributors and the wealthy back home.
In addition to Amendment 16 is Amendment 17 that allowed for the election of Senators to the United States Congress. Up until the 17th's passage it was the state legislatures that selected the federal senators. While this allowed for some cases of corruption, Senator Timber, Senator Steel, it kept those men loyal to their state. Today our US Senators have no loyalty to their states because they need to travel across the nation to fund raising parties.
Wilson was a tremendous supporter of the 17th Amendment because his nemesis in the Congress was none other then Henry Cabot Lodge. Despite Wilson's working against Lodge, Lodge came out the winner when the good citizens of Massachusetts elected him to the Senate. Indeed it was Lodge who brought the letter to Wilson telling him that the Senate was in opposition to the League of Nations and it would not past that body.
In addition to repealing the 16th and 17t Amendment we need to review and tighten the reach of the Commerce Clause. Congress is permitted to regulate commerce with "foreign nations, the several states, and the Indian tribes." Of all the clauses within the Constitution none has been more abused then this one. Sneeze in one state while crossing into another and you will find yourself embroiled in a Supreme Court case to regulate nasal hair and all items associated with same.
Year after election year we are told by office seekers that they want to become our representative in order to reform the system. Now we have a president and czars who admittedly want to not just reform the system they want to replace it with fascism. What we truly need at all levels of government are REPEALERS.
G. K. Chesterton in his work entitled "Eugenics and Other Evil Things" points out that at one point REPEALERS in government were quite popular. Somewhere along the way the politicos agreed to not wipe out the other guy's policies thus the REPEALERS disappeared. The result; burgeoning budgets, massive government programs, laws upon existing laws, and a bureaucracy that is not only huge in its expansiveness, it runs our government at all levels. This bureaucracy is in place due to what was initially a good idea, Civil Service Testing. What is not good is that it is all but impossible to fire these employees and jobs have become generational. Next election question with boldness if your office seeker is willing to be a REPEALER willing to RESTORE those principles found in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Republican Moderates
Recently there have been rumors pertaining to the demise of the Republican Party. I don't think they are rumors in that the Republican party has taken its conservative base for granted and is moving more and more to the left and in so doing they are becoming Democrat lite.
Despite the two recent catastrophic elections, 2006 and 2008, the Republicans believe that the way to win is to become more moderate this despite the fact that the selection of John McCain caused somewhere between 4-5 million conservatives to stay home on election day in 2008. Now we have a new team of light weights, Colon Powell and Tom Ridge, going on the road together with the primary purpose of destroying conservatism. Put these two moderate Republicans at the top of the ticket and you will see the end of the Republican party in 2012 and I would expect the creation of a new Conservative Party grounded in the classical liberalism of our Founders and Framers who gave us the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.
Those of you who believe that the thing Republicans must do is become more moderate, I would remind you that it is ideas that win the hearts and minds of the people. It was Ronald Reagan with his plan to destroy the evil empire of the USSR that got our attention in 1980. No one prior to Reagan had given a thought to destroying communism at its very heart. Reagan was a man with a simple plan, a plan that worked.
In 1994, Newt Gingrich comes along and does the unheard of, he makes House politics national and not local as so often had been attested to by supposed "smart politicians". The national news guys on NBC, ABC, and CBS, had their chins on the ground on election eve 1994,as the results came in with the Republican slaughter of the Democrats. Indeed, many felt the Democrats were finished.
What do the Republicans have to do today? They must return to the principles and values of this nation and devise a program around them. Why do you think so many of us are anti-abortion? Don't know? Well, let me remind you of this phrase, "... among those are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." Life, you see, is an inalienable right. It is at the very core of the well being of this nation and as one gentleman told me recently, we will not be right until we settle the abortion issue and stop the slaughter of unborn babies.
Our Founding Fathers belived that the founding of America was not an accident. They believe that our nation came about because of the hand of God--divine intervention if you will. Yet since 1962, we have done our best to remove Him from our lives. There are those within our own nation who pray for our destruction and think a better world will evolve. Allow me to be so bold as to say that with the destruction of America, occurring because divine intervention has been withdrawn, will result in a vacuum that will not be filled and the rest of the world will be collapse.
Despite the two recent catastrophic elections, 2006 and 2008, the Republicans believe that the way to win is to become more moderate this despite the fact that the selection of John McCain caused somewhere between 4-5 million conservatives to stay home on election day in 2008. Now we have a new team of light weights, Colon Powell and Tom Ridge, going on the road together with the primary purpose of destroying conservatism. Put these two moderate Republicans at the top of the ticket and you will see the end of the Republican party in 2012 and I would expect the creation of a new Conservative Party grounded in the classical liberalism of our Founders and Framers who gave us the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.
Those of you who believe that the thing Republicans must do is become more moderate, I would remind you that it is ideas that win the hearts and minds of the people. It was Ronald Reagan with his plan to destroy the evil empire of the USSR that got our attention in 1980. No one prior to Reagan had given a thought to destroying communism at its very heart. Reagan was a man with a simple plan, a plan that worked.
In 1994, Newt Gingrich comes along and does the unheard of, he makes House politics national and not local as so often had been attested to by supposed "smart politicians". The national news guys on NBC, ABC, and CBS, had their chins on the ground on election eve 1994,as the results came in with the Republican slaughter of the Democrats. Indeed, many felt the Democrats were finished.
What do the Republicans have to do today? They must return to the principles and values of this nation and devise a program around them. Why do you think so many of us are anti-abortion? Don't know? Well, let me remind you of this phrase, "... among those are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." Life, you see, is an inalienable right. It is at the very core of the well being of this nation and as one gentleman told me recently, we will not be right until we settle the abortion issue and stop the slaughter of unborn babies.
Our Founding Fathers belived that the founding of America was not an accident. They believe that our nation came about because of the hand of God--divine intervention if you will. Yet since 1962, we have done our best to remove Him from our lives. There are those within our own nation who pray for our destruction and think a better world will evolve. Allow me to be so bold as to say that with the destruction of America, occurring because divine intervention has been withdrawn, will result in a vacuum that will not be filled and the rest of the world will be collapse.
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