About 230 years ago, a man with the most basic of an education set sail for the colonies to make a new life for himself. Two years after his arrival he watched the oppression of his fellow colonists by the British. This individual decided that he had seen enough and acted by putting his thoughts onto paper, then anonymously publishing a pamphlet in 1776 that would ultimately lead to a fait accompli, or what we all know to be the American Revolution and...Freedom.
That person was Thomas Paine and his pamphlet is called Common Sense. I am of the opinion that we are headed for another revolution, though the path is murky and instead of bullets, we use the ballot box. After all, the oppression and abuse being committed by our government today is really no different than it was in 1776.
The current topic of the day is government run health care; a 1017 page monstrosity that will ultimately lead to the destruction of the private industry and freedom of choice being ripped away from us. With town hall meetings erupting into near chaos because of real American passion, fear and deliberate instigation by SEIU thugs, will we see that revolution in 2102 at the ballot box?
You betcha!
Why is it that members of Congress castigate the rich and claim to be for the middle class and down trodden, when these very same people are about $30,000 a year short of being one of those rich villains? Currently, middle class America has an income of about $40,000 - $50,000 per year, yet members of Congress earn about $175,000 per year, which as you should know, is more than the 95% of those people that President Obama promised he wouldn't tax. I personally don't have anything against anyone for being wealthy or trying to become wealthy, except when they steal and demonize those who are.
Members of Congress are doing both of these.
They are also trying to pass bills into law when they don't even have a clue what they contain AND they are telling us that they must be signed into law quickly; one woman was quoting from the bill to Arlen Spector and he responded that what she had just read wasn't in it!
Then there is the President himself. Arrogant with a chip on his shoulder who can't take criticism from his fellow countrymen. Below is an excerpt from Thomas Paine's Common Sense that I think should serve as a reminder of what this country fought, bled and died for and what we are seeing this very day.
No man was a warmer wisher for reconciliation than myself, before the fatal nineteenth of April, 1775 (Massacre at Lexington), but the moment the event of that day was made known, I rejected the hardened, sullen tempered Pharaoh of England for ever; and disdain the wretch, that with the pretended title of Father of his people, can unfeelingly hear of their slaughter, and composedly sleep with their blood upon his soul.
But admitting that matters were now made up, what would be the event? I answer, the ruin of the continent. And that for several reasons:
First. The powers of governing still remaining in the hands of the king, he will have a negative over the whole legislation of this continent. And as he hath shown himself such an inveterate enemy to liberty, and discovered such a thirst for arbitrary power, is he, or is he not, a proper man to say to these colonies, “You shall make no laws but what I please?” And is there any inhabitants in America so ignorant, as not to know, that according to what is called the present constitution, that this continent can make no laws but what the king gives leave to? and is there any man so unwise, as not to see, that (considering what has happened) he will suffer no Law to be made here, but such as suit his purpose? We may be as effectually enslaved by the want of laws in America, as by submitting to laws made for us in England. After matters are make up (as it is called) can there be any doubt but the whole power of the crown will be exerted, to keep this continent as low and humble as possible? Instead of going forward we shall go backward, or be perpetually quarrelling or ridiculously petitioning. We are already greater than the king wishes us to be, and will he not hereafter endeavor to make us less? To bring the matter to one point. Is the power who is jealous of our prosperity, a proper power to govern us? Whoever says No to this question is an independent, for independency means no more, than, whether we shall make our own laws, or whether the king, the greatest enemy this continent hath, or can have, shall tell us, “there shall be now laws but such as I like.”
But the king you will say has a negative in England; the people there can make no laws without his consent. in point of right and good order, there is something very ridiculous, that a youth of twenty-one (which hath often happened) shall say to several millions of people, older and wiser than himself, I forbid this or that act of yours to be law. But in this place I decline this sort of reply, though I will never cease to expose the absurdity of it, and only answer, that England being the king’s residence, and America not so, make quite another case. The king’s negative here is ten times more dangerous and fatal than it can be in England, for there he will scarcely refuse his consent to a bill for putting England into as strong a state of defence as possible, and in America he would never suffer such a bill to be passed.
Does this remind you of our president? It does to me. Come 2012, if Sarah Palin decides to make a run for the Oval Office, she will get my vote.
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