Part III: Who Is In Control?

The way to secure liberty is to place it in the people's hands, that is, to give them the power at all times...--John Adams

Who is in control? The cheap and dirty answer is: WE ARE--the reality is: we are supposed to be but...hmm?

(All of you Godless people ignor the next simile.) The Federal Government is like the Devil; it only has the control and power over us that we give it. And boy have we given it control and power. Yep, we gave our power to the Federal Government when we sold our souls to the twin Devils of Tax and Spend.

Among the things you aren't taught in History class is that the majority of control and power that the Federal Government has over the States and the Citzens is the money. It's called Tax and Spend and the Feds have refined it into an art. The Feds take your money so they can give it people who will give up their control and power to the them. If we don't take the money, they can't grab the power. Ergo, the only way to get the power back is to quit taking the money. Stated once again for emphasis: IF WE DON'T TAKE THE MONEY, WE KEEP THE POWER!

So when you bellyache about how the Federal Government is controlling your life, ask yourself how did you let that happen? I have to confess the Feds make it easy to do, take the money I mean. The Feds are willing to give us money for anything we "need", for the State, for the County, for the School System, for the Individual. All we have to do is sign our rights, power and control away on the dotted line and they will show us the money.

If we truly want the power of government back in the hands of the people it is time to show the Feds the door. We have got to say no to every penny, nickel and dime that the Federal Government hands us. JUST SAY NO TO THE MONEY!$!

Next: Part IV Revolution!

Pay Now and Pay Later

If one is estranged from oneself, then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others.—Anne Morrow Lindbergh


Back by popular demand, okay demand of one, I am getting back to my blog. To those, (the one) who missed it, well I have been a bit busy. A sick llama, a wedding and a broken toe have kept me sufficiently sidelined. I may be able to blame the sick llama and the broken toe on the liberal left, but I am sure the wedding was all my daughter’s fault.

Just a side note. My broken toe was handled efficiently and effectively by the good folks at Blair Memorial Hospital in Nebraska. No lines, no waiting and good care...no need for medical reform here!

Well, one of my readers posed the following question to me. If the United States is in the red, why do we continue to send money to foreign countries? Well the quick and dirty answer is “I don’t know!”

It does seem rather desperate policy to me. We throw money at other countries in order to get them to like us…and it never works. NEVER. Sure, for a while, they may toe the mark to our imposed mores, but it never lasts and they always end up resenting us. ALWAYS. In some circumstances, they even end up using the funds we gave them to start wars with us. (Really? you thought I would end that sentence with WAR, too kitchy, nice parallelism though.)

I am all for supporting burgeoning Republics, but giving them money, and then trying to tell them how to run their countries has never fostered good will nor strong Republics.

I am not saying that there is never a time to give financial support to other countries, but when we ourselves are in serious debt, it is not at all prudent to give financial support to other countries. But if we are determined to continue this failed policy, we should, at the very least, cut out the middleman and just have China send the funds directly to them.