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Bingo!!!

I am not concerned about what future generations will think of me...

I am extremely concerned that mine and others efforts will, and have been, suplanted to keep us from effecting a correction in the course this country is being forced to steer...

I always ask this rhetorical, personal question that does not require a public answer, it is the ultimate gut-check in this day and age...

“What are you prepared to do about this? And what are you willing to sacrifice for it?”

We still have the ability every two years to effect a correction, and every time it becomes harder and harder to get people to participate other than yelling and screaming at the TV, or over heated conversations at the water-cooler...

If you are concerned about how future generations will view us, lets make as much of a correction as possible, do not be caught up in the top race this November...You need to make sure the down ballot races are taken care of...That is as critical as winning back the WH...

Duplicate yourself, do not bother trying to convince a family memner to go vote with you on election day...Get a nieghbor, friend, co-worker...We have time to talk this issue up...And on election day get up, go pick up your voting partner aqnd go get a cup of coffee and get it done!!! Just do it!!! If you can triple the participation or more, do that...

As long as we have this ability to voice our opinion at the polls, we can do this...

When and if we lose that, then obviously some other options come into play...And everyone will lose at that point...

I’d kinda like to keep it civil...But hey, thats just me...I know where my limitations, and line in the sand is drawn...

We can still fix this, and those that are not going to like what we want to do, can go pound sand as far as I am concerned...

We vote to unite, not to divide like they want to do...

Thanks. You are correct. Electing persons from the local to the national government who understand that they are to be "servants" of "the People," not masters who will "rule" the people, is our most important task. First, however, we must work to educate the electorate that more government, at whatever level, means more individuals who are slaves to government.

My original post's reference to "future generations" is an attempt to promote an idea of historical reference, however. Just as we look back on America's Founders' courage, wisdom and bravery in providing us the opportunity enjoy freedom through their choices and sacrifices, we need to remember that sometime in the next couple of hundred years, some other people will look back on the events of today and see that we either preserved (conserved) liberty for them, or that we let a wannabe "ruler" violate our Constitution and destroy the "Blessings of Liberty" for them.

Too many people have died for this Republic's opportunities and protections for ours to be negligent and lose it.

The following is excerpted from an essay entitled, "Will the Great American Experiment Succeed?" in "Our Ageless Constitution."

It was John Adams who said: "The foundation of every government is some principle or passion in the minds of the people." Clearly, the Founders' passion was liberty, and in order to secure that liberty, they sought out and incorporated into the United States Constitution those ideas and principles embodied in the Declaration of Independence.

The French historian, Guizot, once asked James Russell Lowell, "How long will the American republic endure?" Lowell replied: "As long as the IDEAS of the men who founded it continue dominant"

Herein lies the answer to the question, "Will the Experiment Succeed?"

It can and will succeed IF the motivating "principle or passion in the minds of the people" is LIBERTY, and if that passion causes them to exert the determination and will to complete the needed restoration of the IDEAS upon which the great American experiment was based.

Our Ageless Constitution, W. David Stedman & La Vaughn G. Lewis, Editors (Asheboro, NC, W. David Stedman Associates, 1987) Part VII: ISBN 0-937047-01-5