Posted on 04/17/2009 7:39:06 AM PDT by keep your powder dry
"What can we do to win back our country?" Conservatives are asking themselves that question -- with increasing urgency -- every day. They are desperately groping for a way to stop the twin avalanches of deficit spending and socialist programs that are hurtling down and shattering the once great mountain of a free republic that was the United States of America.
Most of the conservative remedies offered to date (including mine) have been specific policy recommendations: cutting taxes, imposing term limits, or reforming entitlement programs.
Something is missing in these propositions. Conservatives have some good suggestions for how to fix our runaway government -- but we have failed to convincingly address the issue of why the government needs to be fixed in the first place.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
First task of conservatives is to find a leader with the guts to speak up and organize the surging tidal wave.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n63TXAdl_Jw
The nerve of people whose earnings are being stolen at gun point by our federal government and redistributed to the poor astounds me. I mean so what we work hard, play by the rules why should we not allow ourselves to be held up by these priates?
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Nice video, Karen - thanks for sharing!
-Andy
Another excellent article from American Thinker. Thanks for posting it.
If this isn't part of the plan ... it's not a plan
Free Americans: secede from the USSA, create a new nation conceived in liberty, and restore the Constitution, minus the SUpreme COurt, minus 14th Amendment anchor baby, minus the IRS, federal income tax, and all cabinet departments and agencies created after WWI.
Our corrupt political system is rigged and will never allow free Americans to accomplish the necesary reforms. Secession is the only practical solution.
The TEA parties are a solid start (there were about 5,000 in Olympia, WA, where the wife and I were). But we, the people, have to follow up by having “Push Back Until” events later this year, early next year, and for as long as we have to: http://pushbackuntil.com.
It will not be easy, but how interested are we in saving our country from an irresponsible Congress? If we, the people, do nothing, our country is finished.
“Be in D.C. to Push Back Until!”
We need to attack the issue from the moral as well as the utilitarian ground. Freedom is morally right, and it provides the greatest good for the greatest number of people. We cannot neglect either, or we fall into a trap laid by liberals of arguing specific policies.
That was a superb article. Thanks for pointing it out! I had not heard of Hernando de Soto, but am familiar with his thesis and agree with it and its implications. Property rights and respect for the same by government are foundational to freedom and prosperity. Something Washington has utterly forgotten.
There are three “whys” that ground America's historical success and prosperity. They are tradition, the Constitution, and education. These three concepts are interrelated and interdependent. If one of them falls then all three fall. And, at least at this moment in time, all three are in jeopardy — not only of falling — they are in danger of being destroyed.
Tradition: Private Property
Stated as simply as possible, America was founded on two truths. Both of these propositions were manifested in traditions that were established initially by the observation and practice of Judeo-Christian principles and then, over several centuries, were further developed under British common law. The first, and the most important tradition, was the right to private property.
John Locke, the British philosopher, explained the importance of the right to property as the foundation of any secure and free political regime:
Men, therefore, in a society having property, they have such a right to goods, which by the law of the community are theirs, that nobody hath a right to take them, or any part of them, from them without their consent; without this they have no property at all. For I have truly no property in that which another can by right take from me when he please against my consent. Hence it is a mistake to think that the supreme or legislative power of any commonwealth can do what it will, and dispose of the estates of the subject arbitrarily, or a take any part of them at pleasure.[ii]
Locke stumbled upon a fascinating political truth. The stability of any polity is directly related to the government's ability to protect its citizens’ rights to buy, sell, own, exchange and/or keep their private property.”
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Excellent article ... if you have not read it: it is well worth the time and consideration... And to recognize the truth and relevance of it, in the world we see before us today.
We are being complicit with our own demise in simply being by standers to socialist encroachments into/upon our government and the laws being enacted.
What say ye?
Totally misleading headline!
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