GENERATIONAL THEFT

I’ve seen the pithy quote that says, “I’m spending my children’s inheritance.” We smile wryly with some understanding, realizing that it takes just about everything we make to just get by in today’s world.


But Congress has taken it to an all-new unbelievable level. They’re not just spending our children’s inheritance; they’re stealing from several generations. Without any regard for the future generations who will have to pay the bill, or live in abject poverty because of the destruction of our economic system, our Congress continues to spend.

You can’t spend your way to prosperity. Anyone with a scintilla of a brain knows this without being told.

Worse than that, IT IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL!!! That Constitution that they all pledged to uphold and defend against all enemies, both foreign and domestic, is being violated by those who “solemnly swore.”

I quote, “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.” The oppression of overwhelming debt will stifle “the blessings of liberty” for our posterity, if liberty even exists as a result of this GENERATIONAL THEFT.

Our political leaders, on so many issues, try to get our support by saying, “Oh this is for the children.” Get real!! If Congress were really concerned about the children, all of this spending would stop!!

THE BRILLIANCE OF OUR FOUNDERS

Our founders were brilliant men of wisdom. I would suppose that they would be disappointed with many who are representing our nation in the branches of government today. In the Declaration of Independence, they pledged their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor. We are woefully absent of leaders who are seeking to help our country, without aggrandizing themselves or their friends, or seeking to increase their power to dictate to others.

I have just read the constitution through 2 times in a very short period of time. I mean minutes, not hours. It encompasses the structure and duties of the entire government in only 10 pages in my copy, and this includes the first 10 amendments, our Bill of Rights.

The authors were precise in their statements and did not try to obfuscate the meaning of the document. It is understandable for all men, not just the highly educated.

I was amazed again at the scope of this document that anticipated future questions and has needed amendment so few times. Only 17 times in 220 years has change been necessary; amazing years that have brought us from horse and buggy to space flight.

If only our leaders would recognize that by moving away from the Constitution, they are replacing a diamond with cheap costume jewelry – gold with rusting iron – wisdom with foolishness!

Paul, the Apostle said to the Romans, “professing themselves to be wise, they became fools.”

O, that it were not so! O, that we could replace our politicians with statesmen!

My SPIN on "spin"

Truth has always been under attack, but now has been elevated to a new art form that is both “recognized” and “idolized” by the media. Now it is called “spin”, and those journalists that previously exposed outright lies, now marvel instead at the ability of leaders to “spin” what has been said. That which is patently false is transformed into something that is acceptable.

We have forgotten that in stressful moments, we often “slip up” and say what we really think, not unlike the guilty person confessing their crime under the skilled cross-examination of Ben Matlock or Perry Mason. And now with our technology, the statement can be replayed immediately in audio or video format. It’s hard to deny “what we said”, so we hire people skilled in the art of SPIN to deny “what we meant.”

Of course, like Arthur Fonzarelli (the Fonz from “Happy Days”), our leaders would never stoop to say, “I was wrong”, so they have to say, “You were wrong in what you heard.”

SPIN is an attempt to deceive the hearers. An attempt to deceive the hearers is a lie. Therefore, SPIN is a lie, pure and simple.

As we used to say in geometry, Quod erat demonstrandum. No, we didn’t actually say it. We used the initials Q.E.D. Case closed – we have proven our point.

Freedom Czar

President Barack Obama has taken a presidential practice of creating czars to a new level.

These chosen ones have been given power to focus on specific areas of concern for the administration.  Some have been approved by Senate comfirmation, and others have served simply at the behest of the president.

The most famous czars in the past were in the areas of education and drugs.  One of the best known was Bill Bennett.  President Obama has appointed so many that the actual count for his administration is uncertain.

I am appointing myself as a Freedom Czar, one among tens of thousands, who have grave concerns over the continuing loss of individual freedoms to an ever expanding goverment.

This blog is dedicated to my humble, but accurate opinion on events that affect our freedom.