Saturday 26th December 2009 Politics (Editor)
Here's a New Years Resolution : Get Politically Involved.

Are you aware of what our Nations government is doing? Do you care? Is it better to get involved or do nothing? Consider these things: 

• Unemployment is over 10%. Maybe, way over. 
• Government has taken over the Auto industry, Banking industry, and soon, the Health Industry. 
• Deficit spending is bankrupting our country. 
• Most of the stimulus money has gone to grow government, not create jobs.

First lets consider who is responsible for this mess we find ourselves in. Is it the Bush administration? Is it Obama? Is it Democrats or Republicans or far left or far right? I think Pogo had the answer: “I have found the enemy and he is US.”

Ok, I capitalized us and maybe extended it's meaning. Each of us is responsible. We have been going about our business and not paying attention to what is going on in government and schools. Fine. So what does one person do about it?

In the next few installments of this blog, I will show what can be done. Understand this, it can be fixed and just the fact that all of this happened can turn into a blessing for all of us. I refuse to stick my head in the dirt, give up or place the blame on anyone but me. Yeah, “I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it any more”.

Lets start with a little history. Our founding fathers created the Constitution of the United States for one reason: Protect individuals from run-away government. They were expressly trying to protect themselves from an oppressive King of England. Many, including me, believe that the Constitution was divinely inspired. Our founding fathers were for the most part, Christians and understood that rights of individuals were given to us by God. They expressly protected the individuals from government by delineating these rights as God's given rights and the government had no authority over them.

Consider the Declaration of Independence: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. ”

Notice that these rights were endowed by their Creator, not by government. I find it ironic that it lays claim to the right and responsibility to “throw off such Government” when it gets out of line. Lets extend that to a reasonable conclusion:

It is our responsibility to fix our own government when it steps over it's constitutional bounds.

 

What do you think?