Now is not the time for ease and
comfort but time to dare and endure…
W. Churchill
Not such a long time
ago, in the shining city on the hill, there lived a group of men that strode
into the darkest corners of the earth. Little about them was known. Few that
met them understood them, but they became the leaders wherever they walked on the
earth. The important thing that was known was they were men you just didn't
want to mess with. They had a big stick. They walked softly. If you crossed
them you put your life on the line.
Some of these men
believed one thing and others believed something else. It didn't seem to matter who believed what
and what each believed they believed with passion. Each stood on those beliefs.
Each walked with those beliefs. They
bumped into each other, they yelled and argued over the things they
believed.
Each day as the sun
set, there was something that pulled all back together around the dinner table
to share bread and to thank God for their brothers.
There was a knowing
and understanding and acceptance that was a bond that existed well beyond
differences. Differences sometimes were seen as enriching and everyone added
what they could to the dinner pot. To cross one was to cross all. To short
change one was to short change all. These soft walking men got their stick and
as one came after you.
In that long ago
time, their government took care of government matters and these men took care
of the Country. Like good stewards, they tended, protected and shaped both the
land, their families, and their communities. There was no equivocation. There was
no half-heartedness. Things were done with discipline, correctness, and a
passion that reflected love and responsibility. Most of the men are gone but
there are a few still with us. The few left, with weak voices, telling the
stories of how things were and how they can be. With their stories discounted
they are discounted, like the rubble of torn down buildings in our intercity.
So scattered that no one can imagine the service they provided or to their
reach into the sky. Somewhere in the rubble the building's placard is buried so
no one can recall the builders, or its time, or its contribution, or its
purpose much like these older men with their told tales of past glories and
triumphs.
Every society
throughout history has its own evolving history, its stories of the forefathers
with their values and beliefs and the society they shaped and passed on. Ours is a young society. Still
arrogant, still undisciplined, still impulsive, and as destructive as
adolescent boys.
Much like young
boys, this Congress and President are arrogant,
undisciplined, impulsive, and destructive. Tearing down our laws,
discounting our beliefs, reshaping our nation by pitting one group against
another, dividing a country of brothers. Being reelected through scheming,
conniving, lying, manipulating are tools in this high stake poker game. These
tools have worked well for them in our past. Few can remember when Harry and
Nancy first came to Congress. If listed, the list would be long with both Dems
and Republican incumbents who have WON reelections more than three terms and
many six or more terms. To our shame, many applaud and say at each reelection
"At-A-Boy".
The corrupting
effect of power has been know and written about since the early days of Greece.
Once acquired, power is hard not to abuse. What makes this abuse so insidious
is because it's always denied. The abuser plays his part, the liberal press
plays their part, and we play ours. Our part is to trust, reelect, and feel
disappointment. This current group has simply gone farther than previous
congresses and their arrogance is so arrogant that it can't be denied or
"spun" or hidden. Is their behavior so egregious, this time,
that we will actually change our role in
this play before it become a tragedy? This country is at a tipping point. This
President/Congress wants us to change ourselves as free Americans to fit what
their imagined political/social/economic America should be. The Health Bill is
where they drew the line. So it will be "They" win and we lose. Or
"We" win and they lose. Come November we will take up our big stick and march into the
voting booth.
All the mighty nations throughout history have
fallen through political suicide. Their suicidal demise always began through
government's corruption of national and religious values. This destruction
always begins by the discounting of a nation's history. The national history
says to each new generation who we are, who they are, and how we got to where
we are. This President in so many ways and in his short time in office has
traveled the world discounting who we are by apologizing for America. Armed
with a liberal congress this President began discounting each of us, the
American people, directly by creating laws that limits our rights and
freedoms.
We have not
forgotten our heritage. We have not forgotten our values, nor have we forgotten
the men and women who built this Nation.
We cannot stop change..... Change is the hart beat of time and life... What is possible is that we have a voice in what and how change takes place... Our goals and purpose must be clear and easily understood by all... This is the element that has been missing during our last few election cycles... We have left the liberal media to define our goals and purposes... They will do it again IF we let them...
Senator Wicker is beginning to find his name on the list of Senator who need to be re-vetted before that next primaries. During the past century Mississippi senators have been known to sell their votes for a handful of 'pork bones.' Can it be that Wicker is joining this august body? One can only hope not.
Regardless of what we do or say between now and the next election there is a problem that we must think about and consider with empathy. The growing number of people who, for a whole variety of reasons, cannot find work that they can do. The low skill jobs are simply gone.... (Again for a variety of reasons.)... This group along with the growing group of people who are here illegally are a burden on all the working families. Whatever else our purposes are as a group we must include and offer hope and some level of solutions to this group of citizens. Through reduction in regulations on business and changing tax laws business would be willing to bring back a lot of their low skilled work back to this country.
When businesses price their good or services they price in the federal and state tax. In doing so they become a tax collector for government. Putting this burden on our businesses inhibits their growth and their ability to complete at the international levels.
We need business to reach our goals as a group. We need a strong economy and they are the only ones that make this happen.
As our group begins to fashion our goals for 2014 the elimination on all taxes on businesses and a flat tax on individuals and families.... This would be a simple goal that can easily be understood.
Ron
