SageSuggestions : 2010-11-14

Thursday, November 18, 2010

What Grade Did We Get On The Last Election?

Despite all the pats on the back and celebrations of the people's message of the November mid term elections your 6th grade teacher would have graded you at a 20! That's right a 20! But why, we elected about 80 NEW members of Congress; our Tea Party candidates won big; and we sent a strong message that they better pay attention to us!
Yeah they really paid attention. The leadership is exactly the same except in the House it flopped from minority to majority. Not one of the NEW people became part of the leadership, to my knowledge, and we left more than 80% of the people who got us into this mess in place. Say what you will, but seniority still prevails and will for the foreseeable future. Until we figure out what might be a new slant on the definition of insanity: "keeping the same people in place and expecting different results"; we will continue to slip further and further down the slippery slope until we no longer recognize our own country.
We have a newly re-elected congressman from New York City convicted of multiple counts of ethics violation. Because of his age, he has been in Congress for most of his adult life, we can only hope he can survive the "slap on the wrist" he will get for his indiscretions. Oh yeah, this humble public servant somehow managed to scrape together $2,000,000 to pay his attorney. Ask yourself if you failed to pay thousands of dollars in taxes what kind of "slap" you would get?
If we were to seriously evaluate the results of this election in terms of the change we can expect we would have to conclude that there wouldn't really be much. The new members will not be able to overcome the existing power structure. The smoke from this defeat of the policies that are heading us toward bankruptcy and third world status will soon clear. Two years is a long time and few people will maintain their anger till then. After all, these entrenched "public servants" survived this worst defeat since the 30's and, if anything, their power increased.
If you think your message had an impact get past the rhetoric and watch what is actually done. If you want to see an example of the ongoing abuse of power, click on the link below:
Is This What You Want?

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

SageSuggestions

Thursday, November 18, 2010

What Grade Did We Get On The Last Election?

What's Happening Now?

What Others Think!