Opinion by Martin
One night I had a dream. It was a dream about a powerful nation that had been conceived in Liberty and built on the ideal that, if a person worked hard enough, you could succeed. Then I woke up.
I found the dream was broken. It was broken by Big Politics, Big Unions, and Big Businesses, but mainly by the greed of the government, at all levels.
To anyone who has read The Federalist Papers, The Declaration of Independence, or The Constitution, I recommend that you read them again and try to understand why these documents were written and what they mean. There are too many people, elected and appointed officials as well as average citizens, who don’t understand the meaning of these documents and others who don’t want you to read them so you will not know what you are losing as they tear these papers into shreds and take away your freedoms. Anyone who has not read any of the above, I suggest you do before they become unavailable to you. And the way our “government” is leading us, I fear they will disappear to the ordinary citizen.
Little by little, the Federal Government has gotten into your personal life, giving you crumbs while taking loaves of bread. This covers both the Republican and Democrat Parties as presently constituted.
The Founders had a dream that they could build a nation to withstand the test of time, beyond the control of petit dictators. They even created a Constitution that separated the powers of government into three separate, but equal branches hoping that this would offset the basic greed of men. These three branches are now showing that small-minded men can usurp the dreams of giants. The Judicial Branch has decided that they know better than Congress and has been legislating from the bench for the past 50 or so years. Congress has decided that they do not have to listen to the voters who put them into office. They set themselves up with pay, pensions, and healthcare beyond the reach of the taxpayers who foot the bills and then they exempt themselves from the laws that all other citizens have to obey. The Executive Branch, beginning with Theodore Roosevelt and coming forward to our time, has felt that it can run the country through Executive Orders, effectively bypassing Congress and the will of the people.
For instance, Theodore Roosevelt created numerous departments in the government that are still with us today. Woodrow Wilson attempted to create a world body that would unite all of the governments into one controlling organization. Thank God the League of Nations failed or our freedoms might have been snuffed out in the early 1920s. Franklin Roosevelt created Social Security that was supposed to supplement a person’s savings when he/she retired from the work force. This was supposed to have been voluntary and was not to have been taxed. See what happens when greedy politicians enter the scene? And now, we have Barack Obama, who has decided to relegate the United States to the status of a Third World nation. He has decided that the population of the United States (legal and illegal) has to be covered by health insurance for which the individual has pay whether or not he wishes to have coverage. In “Obamacare”, they have talked about the possibility of a single-payer system (the Federal Government) and rationing of services (read “Death Panels”) for terminally ill citizens, similar to the system in Great Britain.
The upshot of these various governmental departments, world bodies, retirement and healthcare plans is that you, the citizen, the taxpayer, the voter, the owner of this nation are being dispossessed in your own country by greedy politicians who bow to the altars of special interests. You have only a very narrow window of opportunity in which take a stand and retake your country from these petit-dictators who would be kings, and that window is rapidly closing.
You, as a citizen of these United States must talk to your friends, neighbors, and co-workers. Join groups like the Tea Party and write your Congressmen/women. Tell them that you want your Country back. It does not belong to them. You do not work for them, they work for you. You elected them to office and you can remove them just as easily. Now is the time to take charge, tomorrow may be too late.
Oct 03, 2011
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