My New Career

On March 24th of last year I started this blog. At the time, I had no plans for making it political; indeed, I had no plans at all. I only wanted an excuse to write.

But then we were hit by the mortgage crisis and the presidential campaign, and during those dark and stormy days, I began putting my political two cents in. Soon I upped the ante to a nickel and then a quarter. And before I knew it, I was investing heavily and had become a genuine political commentator.

Okay, maybe not.

In any case, I’m now asking myself: If I were to continue with my newly discovered career, how much impact would I have? Of course there’s no way of telling. But we’re definitely at a critical intersection in this country and only a few people are giving any thought to keeping liberty alive while we’re reviving the economy. Our president and his cohorts in Congress are all in a lather over “change” and “stimulus packages.” In their headlong and madcap rush to get the tentacles of government firmly wrapped around every part of our nation’s economy, liberty has been thoughtlessly shoved aside.

So with that said, I think I might just go on preaching the merits of liberty for a while. Someone has to do it, after all. And there seems to be darn little interest in the job. The field’s wide open.

Remember, dear friends, it is not the Constitution or our system of government that has failed us. It is the current crop of immoral and unscrupulous political leaders who have let us down. They are rapidly transforming our democratic government into a despotic government. They are deliberately and methodically turning upside down the truly remarkable and ingenious system of government our forebears created for us.

Today, more than ever before, good, hardworking Americans, individuals with worthy dreams and goals of their own, are being called upon to sweat and sacrifice in order to support an intrusive, mismanaged and bloated federal government. Our current political leaders seem to have forgotten that our government was created by the people to serve the people.
We--we the people--are the masters of government, not the other way around.

Bear in mind that when the government becomes heavily invested and involved in our nation’s major banks, insurance companies and auto giants, it is acquiring and consolidating POWER, power that was not granted to the federal government by the Constitution. And POWER, especially unlimited power in a few hands, is a dangerous and ugly thing. Make no mistake about it.

Surely we can all agree that sacrificing liberty to save the economy is a poor bargain. We need to start getting more people into government who understand that it isn’t necessary to dismantle and destroy what is best about our country in order to generate so-called prosperity and security.

Every so often a generation of Americans has the privilege of fighting for what is right. Let’s not back away from this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Let’s boldly embrace it.

Please lend your full support to those in Congress who are on the side of liberty. And at the same time begin dumping those who are bent upon making themselves autocrats and kings--like Harry Reid, for example.

We once had a government that allowed its citizens to possess and enjoy the fruits of their labor. We now have one that is determined to tax and regulate its citizens into bondage.

We were taught as children that as human beings we have an inalienable right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. We must never let our government get the idea that those rights are for sale.