Outnumbered?
Deborah Venable
12/22/08
When
“the police” outnumber the good citizens of a country, the country is in
trouble. Is this perhaps the change
that we are in for? I remind you of
these words, spoken by candidate Barack Obama during his campaign:
“We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the
national security objectives we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national
security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.”
This
isn’t getting a lot of press now that we have actually elected the guy, but I
haven’t heard that he’s taken any of this back, so I must assume that creating
this “civilian national security force” is still part of his agenda.
Since
much has been done to downplay the importance of each individual “policing”
himself, i.e. taking responsibility for his own choices and actions as opposed
to placing the “blame” for consequences elsewhere, I doubt if the agenda
includes returning any of the personal responsibility that was once considered
a hallmark of Americanism to the good citizens of this country. Therefore, if this “civilian national
security force” becomes a reality, America will become little more than a
nation of informants with our every word, action, and thought monitored by our
neighbors. This is the attitude of
communism to the worst degree.
Freedom
does not exist in such an environment.
If
we combine all the police forces of every state and all federal police
authorities that currently exist, we would probably find that this would
already equal or surpass the military in strength and funding. In other words, we already have a civilian
national security force.
If
you add all the other government jobs currently held by many of the good
citizens of this country, you will find that government is the largest employer
we have. “Civil Service” employment has
always held a certain attraction to many good citizens in the work force. It is considered secure employment with
better than average benefits.
Politicians
are always accentuating the importance of “job creation” and articulate, ad
nauseam, promises of creating more jobs in their various campaigns to get
elected. The only jobs that politicians
can create are within their own campaign and office staffs and those within
government – civil service employment.
When did freedom-loving Americans decide that growing government was a
good idea?
Current state of the
economy
Supposedly
the most important issue on most Americans’ minds is the economic crisis. The current state of the economy can almost
exclusively be laid at the feet of government – excluding normal cyclical
economic factors of course. It is hard
to believe that so many could be so ignorant that they believe their well-being
is the ultimate responsibility of government.
Indeed, protecting us from outside invasion while officially deciding
how to work and play well with other countries, the printing and coinage of our
money supply, and maintaining a well-honed system of justice against criminal
actions sum up the only responsibilities of government. That’s it.
Beyond those narrow parameters, government can create nothing but
havoc.
Nothing
in the description of our government about a Federal Banking system or a
suffocating system of taxation on personal property or earnings either, but
these two things certainly provide funding for the abusive definition we have
now.
So,
if the rest of you would like to turn a blind eye to what is happening as
government seeks to take over more and more of the private infrastructure that
once defined our culture and our peace of mind, keep on thinking that the
Constitution is just an outmoded piece of paper and oaths to defend it don’t
mean anything. Throw yourselves
wholeheartedly into the Obama Change Machine that promises to make everything
better while it strips away the fabric of moral fortitude that literally picked
this country up time after time in her short history, dusted her off, and set
her back on the path to success and prosperity.
The
economy will be the last thing you have to worry about.
Founders’ warnings
“I believe that
banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their
currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations
that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property
until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers
conquered.” - Thomas Jefferson
“No people will tamely
surrender their Liberties, nor can any be easily subdued, when knowledge is
diffused and virtue is preserved. On the Contrary, when People are universally
ignorant, and debauched in their Manners, they will sink under their own weight
without the Aid of foreign Invaders."
- Samuel Adams
Countless other warnings exist in the writings of our Founders, but few are being taught these days. To those of us who vividly remember our lives in the not too distant past, this present we are in seems like a foreign country to us. We inherited the greatest bounty a people have ever known and we are watching as people of our own generation and those coming along after are willingly giving it all up. For what? For a controlling “authority” that holds out empty promises of security and fairness?
There
is no security to inherit, and fairness is only a product of our own making.
The Hard, Liberating
Truth
America
has been bought, and sold a bill of goods!
Most of this happened over less than hundred years, and much of the part
that is really noticeable happened within the last fifty years. None of it could have happened without the
willing capitulation and participation of a people who had lost their way and
their moral compass. We are no longer
slipping down a “slippery slope” but rather we are free-falling though a void –
no longer grounded in reality. What
happens when we hit bottom will depend on how many people can grasp reality on
the way down.
A
more recent piece of that reality is this:
"It is well
enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary
system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow
morning.” – Henry Ford
Now, listen up. There are no do-overs here, so take notes if you have to. People of the nation STILL do not understand our banking and monetary system. Even many of those who claim to and have spent their entire professional lives “explaining” it to the rest of us have no real grasp on reality. Our future prosperity is in the hands of a bunch of duped amateurs and the few with purely evil intent in their hearts.
There
is so much on our plate to be concerned about, it is hard to know where to
start, but there is one thread that connects everything negative that is
happening and could happen to this country.
That single thread is the control of America’s wealth. Nothing bad happens without the money to pay
for it. Simple as that. So, just where is the money to pay for
it? Here’s where it gets a little
dicey. Right now, the bulk of America’s
wealth is all tied up in “futures.”
The
truth is that the whole country works on investments in the future. If you happen to be an individualist, then
you know that no one has more control of your future than you do. The present is only the building block for
the future, and the past is the mortar that holds everything together. This is true no matter what commodity we are
talking about – money included.
There
is no way to look at the wealth of a nation objectively. It is a purely subjective issue. The current political agenda would have us
ignore this truth, however, and our future president would bury our true wealth
in obscurity. This does not mean that
he has “evil intent” in his heart, but rather he is simply one of the “duped
amateurs” that I mentioned earlier. He
is perhaps more dangerous in this capacity than if he really was evil. Subjectively, he sees himself as controlling
America’s wealth objectively.
“Woe unto them that
call evil good, and good evil: that put darkness for light, and light for
darkness: that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!”
“Woe
unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!”
Isaiah 5:20 and 21
If
you are still with me, and the above quote from the Bible did not turn you off,
then I will simply remind you of the vast amount of truth contained in
Scripture. Our Founders certainly
realized it as they crafted the Constitution, which many, including Obama, see
as outmoded and in need of change. He
would have us build the future security of this country on a foundation of
redistribution rather than use the mortar of past knowledge to hold the blocks
of our culture together.
But,
what has all this got to do with the financial wealth of our nation, you
ask?
The
lessons that the duped amateurs, influenced by the hearts of evil intent, would
have us invest in are not a part of our culture. The whole idea of wealth redistribution is based in
socialism/communism/Marxism – I don’t care what you call it – there are but subtle
differences in them all. Can we all
just agree that redistribution and charity are two different things?
The Numbers Game
I
have often said that government work should not be a full time job for
anyone. We are all citizens first, and
if we are lovers of freedom, we should never elect to seek a career in
government. This should hold true for
everything from military to political office.
If you seek a career in government, you are seeking government
dependency. Period. Eventually that will corrupt the staunchest
individualist soul. But mine is
obviously not a popular view, is it?
As
it is, the government retirement scheme, otherwise known as Social Security,
has us all retiring under government dependency, and that carries with it a
constant worry about the solvency of our mandated retirement dollars. Those of us who have paid into it all of our
adult lives have recently retired or are about to, and we should be acutely
aware of the bleak picture of that solvency and how it often becomes the subject
of political deal making. Those who
have tried to remain independent of that system in retirement have found it
increasingly hard in the economic stresses that have wiped out life-long
savings, investments, and even real estate values. It is hard enough to remain financially afloat in non-productive
years by steering clear of charlatans, who would rob us, but when the
government becomes an accomplice to devaluing our wealth, we are truly
vulnerable.
It
is no wonder to me why so many intellectuals are perfectly willing to “import”
ever-increasing numbers of alien citizens to add to the taxpayer and FICA rolls
of future government dependents, because I realize that as the Baby Boomers
retire, they did not leave behind enough offspring to foot the bill. I saw this happening as family sizes
decreased, and the very basics of strong community through traditional marriage
and family was marginalized in favor of “progressive” thinking. I have been repeatedly berated for having
more than “my share” of children, and have been heartsick at the legally
accepted loss of millions through abortion.
Still, my views are not seen as popular in this progressive America, are
they?
American
individualists are becoming outnumbered.
Our founding religion is under constant attack, our Constitution is
continually mocked, and now, our capitalist economic fundamentals are being
eaten away by government control, regulation, and eventual takeover. If you don’t think that is something to
worry about in the coming weeks, months, and years, then you do not understand
what makes a successful society tick.