Overwhelmed

Right now as I look over the news I feel overwhelmed. I am in stunned incredulousness when looking at statements made by people who believe government and more government is the answer to....anything. I am stunned at people who seriously speak of greedy capitalists. I am amazed at people who blame free markets for our present issues. I am amazed that they do not know that there has been no free market in many things for decades.

Parts of our current problems go back to ratification of the constitution. I guess the founders felt like their political descendants would be able to comprehend at a third grade level. I can read the constitution and understand it. What is this nonsense about 'interpreting the constitution?' The thing is in plain English. It isn't in runes. If you hear talk of interpreting the constitution, that means making it say something other than that which it does.

A huge part of the problem is in the diminution of the states.

A huge part of the problem is in citing things as being from the constitution that are nowhere in it. One example is the separation of church and state.

Thus falling like a waterfall from points above, the federal government involves itself in things constitutionally left to states and individuals.

1913. My grandmother was born. She is a hero to me. Yet, that same year brought the federal reserve and the income tax system.

Social Security came along. Medicare came along. As quickly as they were created, they were looted.

Our government has no desire to enforce our borders. A country without borders is no country. Any entity without borders is no entity. Things cannot exist without borders.

We wage war against human nature and a human's right to decide what do do with his body. Has the war on drugs solved a thing? Sorry Ron. I love you man, but you were as wrong as a man can be in deciding to declare a war on drugs.

We are supposed to be a free people. The individual was to reign supreme. We are no democracy. A democracy is mob rule. We are a constitutional republic. With freedom comes responsibility. Being responsible is hard. It is so much easier to let someone else do it. In giving up responsibility, we have given up our individual liberty.

Here we are.

To regain our liberty means shouldering the responsibility. I like to think I can, but the fact is, I don't know. I don't know if my shoulders can hold. I have never used them before - not in this way. I do know that I am more able than 70% of the population at the least. But will it be enough?

There is no choice you know. If we don't fix it. It will all collapse under it's own weight. Then there will be blood.


- Posted using The dark side of the shwartz.