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Monday, October 18, 2010

Which Pocket

It's election time again and we are subjected to the all-to-familiar debate about who should pay the bills for all those services we demand-Local, State, or Federal Government.
We have let politicians, who are only interested in their own re-election, convince us that federal money is different from state money is different than local money. In truth, the only difference is which of our pockets they pick. Government, at any level, does not generate a dime on their own! Yet these politicians constantly refer to the money they "invest" on our behalf as if it were their own and they were spending it on us out of "the goodness of their hearts".
The incumbents continually tell us about the money they bring back to their districts each year. If someone in the press would only report the truth, we would find we, in fact, usually pay in far more than we get back!
They tell us that seniority means power and power means more benefits for you the constituent. What someone should be saying is power means a better chance to get re-elected and we all know that means more traffic from our pockets to their pockets. Do a Google search and find out how much the net worth of your representative has grown since he or she went to the capitol to "represent" you.
How many times have you heard one of these "blowhards" say "I have dedicated my life to public service"? I think the Founding Fathers would have defined public service as a term or two in service to their community and then a return to that community which would be represented by some one else. Instead their vision has become a money trough and a path to wealth and perks beyond belief.
If the Founders "crystal ball" had been working they would have surely added term limits to the Constitution!

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Evelynn's mommyOctober 19, 2010 at 8:52 AM
Grandpa... thank you for your blog posts. I really enjoy them and feel as though I am actually learning something about our government. Politics are all so confusing as I'm sure they want it that way... but your insight helps me to make some sense of it all. Love to everybody from Evelynn, Andy, and I.
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The Declaration of Independence

When in the course of human Events, it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political Bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the Powers of the Earth, the separate and equal Station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent Respect to the Opinions of Mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the Separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their CREATOR with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness - That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed, that whenever any Format of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying it's Foundations on such Principles, and organizing it's Powers in such Form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate the time Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient Causes, and accordingly all Experiences hath shewn, that Mankind more disposed to suffer, while Evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the Forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long Train of Abuses and Usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinced a Design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their Right, it is their Duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future Security. Such has been the patient Sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the Necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The History of the present King of Great Britain is a History of repeated Injuries and Usurpations, all having in direct Object the Establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid World.

(The specific grievances are listed as is the Declaration of breaking the connections with Great Britain.

56 patriots (YOUR FOREFATHERS) signed the Declaration of Independence knowing they would be accused of Treason against the Crown and condemned to Death if caught!

YOU CAN READ THE REST OF THE DECLARATION ON LINE at: www.archives.gov>exhibits>charters

Gettysburg Address

"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place--for those who have given their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate--we cannot concecrate--we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who have struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember, what we say here but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated to the unfinished work which they who fought have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion--that we highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain--that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom--and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people shall not perish from this earth.
Abraham Lincoln

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