Suppose you made $50,000 a year but your family was spending
$60,000, do you think you might have a family meeting real quick and try to
figure out a way to cut spending? Then
suppose your teenage son says: “Hey, don’t worry. We’ve got credit cards.”
This is a picture of our government on a smaller scale. This is not limited to the federal
government, but this is the focus here.
The biggest indicators that our government has gone wrong in
its focus and priorities is the massive debt that it has accumulated relatively
recently in our nation’s history and the fact that it shows no signs of changing
that.
The response of the Democrats is always to raise taxes and
never to cut spending (unless it is for the military), and never to ask if
maybe the government has gone off course.
Republicans usually focus on lowering taxes and hoping that
this causes an increase in jobs and economic activity that leads to overall higher
tax revenues.
But very few people talk about cutting spending, apart from
obvious wasteful spending. And none of
them are Democrats. They don’t believe in cutting government spending. And nobody is asking if our priorities and the
whole direction of our government has gone astray.
So, what is the correct course of government, and how do we
know it?
The answer, of course, is found in our founding documents: the
Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, particularly the Preamble,
which addresses this question.
Consider this quote from the Declaration of Independence:
“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 Form of
Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to
alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation
on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall
seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.”
Note four things here:
1) God gave
people certain unalienable rights, rights that precede government and that
government cannot take away.
2) People form governments
for the purpose of securing those rights.
The definition of ‘secure’ from the Webster dictionary of that time has
an interesting definition:
“To make certain; to put beyond hazard.
Liberty and fixed laws secure to
every citizen due protection of person and property. The first duty and the
highest interest of men is to secure
the favor of God by repentance and faith, and thus to secure to themselves future felicity.
Government, our government, exists to see that we enjoy
those rights and to protect us from those that would take them away.
3) The
government’s power comes from the consent of the people. The government has no right to force things
on people and then to tell them to like it.
4) The
paramount goal of the government is to effect the safety and happiness of its
people.
When was the last time you felt happy over our government? The word ‘happiness’ was used a lot in the
early writings of our country to describe the people living in our country. It’s definitely not used today as our people
are encouraged to protest every perceived injustice, every disagreement, every
variance from a particular vision of how things should be. I should add that, yes, it is the Democrats
who are encouraging this unrest.
So, what changed?
One very big thing that changed is that our government is now
more concerned about the people coming to our country than the ones who are
already here. Again, it is primarily
Democrats who push this. Even when they
are a minority in Congress, they often get what they want, because they make
the most commotion.
Why are they more concerned about the people who might come here
rather than those who are already here?
Simple answer: votes.
It’s easier to get new immigrants to vote for a government that
is constantly offering them things that don’t cost them anything and that depend
on higher taxes on other people than to vote for a government that just offers
them freedom. They don’t know what true
freedom is or where it comes from. They
didn’t learn it in their old countries, and we certainly don’t teach it to them
here.
We no longer teach our immigrants what the United States is
all about, its foundation, the core beliefs behind our liberty, that our
freedoms come from a belief in God as found in the Bible. We are being told constantly that we are a
secular nation with no distinct American value system or culture that we believe
is better than any other culture.
And again, it is the Democrats who most strongly oppose teaching
new immigrants the foundation of our country.
Besides considering all the cultures of these other countries as equal
to our own, they are quite content to do away with the unalienable rights given
to us by God and to stick with rights given to us by the government. There is a big difference between the two that
we will talk about at another time.
Many countries in Europe today are being flooded with
immigrants. There are a lot of other
countries a lot closer to where they came from, but they don’t offer the
benefits that these European countries do.
When I say benefits, I don’t mean advantages. I mean benefits as in total monetary value of
assistance. It’s like they, and we, are
paying people to move here. For
Democrats, it’s essentially paying people for their vote.
Yes, we are a nation of immigrants, but when we give them
more money in benefits than they can make in their home countries working, of
course, you’re going to have far more people trying to come here than you would
otherwise and not in the mold of the immigrants of old.. In the ‘old days’ of immigration, they came
with nothing, we gave them nothing but freedom, and they then made something out
of nothing.
All those immigrants in the past that made us what we are today
didn’t get thousands of dollars a year in benefits. We had jobs then, but then the government in
its arrogant infinite wisdom sent the jobs to other countries. Again, our government was caring more for
other nations than its own people.
So the first step to getting our government on the right
course is to expect it to think of the happiness of its citizens more than that
of people who are not. That statement will
be construed by Democrats as being selfish and uncaring, but thinking of the happiness
of its own citizens is the reason government exists in the first place.
It’s like you hired someone to cut your grass, but they cut your
neighbor’s grass instead and sent you the bill.
You can pay it if you want, but nobody should expect you to. But your
grass still isn’t cut. So you have to
hire somebody else to cut your grass. If
our government won’t do what it was formed to do, then maybe it’s time for a
new one.
If the people alive today had lived during the time of the War
for Independence, there never would have been a revolution. And if the people alive then were alive
today, there already would have been another one.
