Break the "Party" Stranglehold!

I have a friend who recently defined me as a Republican, and described Republican ideaology as hypocritical, dishonest, irrational, and just plain mean-spirited. there is only one republican fiscal policy. The rich get richer at the expense of everyone else.


He is right on the money about the Republicans.  No arguments.  However, since we are clarifying Party stances, the Democrat Party's ideology is that of big government control over the lives of its citizens, empirical, hypocritical, controlling, lying, more interested in achieving control than in upholding the Constitution.  In fact, it is the Democrats who openly state that the Constitution is "outdated" and "irrelevant", and this is a stance that we have fought wars to defeat.


We have always been able to maintain a respectful relationship, and I intend to do so because our friendship runs deeper to me than political ideology.  However, the government wants us to maintain this in-fighting, because as long as we are fighting among ourselves, we will be ill-equipped to reverse this alarming trend towards evolving our government into a ruling class.  To be melodramatic, but accurate, BOTH parties represent that evil that will choke the liberty and freedom from us.


I'm NOT a Republican. I'm not a Romney supporter, although he would be my choice between the two presumed candidates.  I am in support of self-reliance and self-responsibility.  I am against a society of entitlement.  I am, at the mildest, a Jeffersonian Constitutionalist, because it is adherence to that document and those principles that made this country as great as it ONCE was.


In truth, I can be called a Rational Anarchist.  You and yours may pass whatever laws you feel necessary to form the ideals of your society.  I, alone, am responsible for which laws I will obey and which laws I will ignore, which is actually true of every citizen.  It is up to me to either accept or fight the consequences.  This government lost its way a long time ago, when it put government above the rights of citizens, and bound them in the chains of entitlement.


Until we break those chains, and move away from the entitlements, and move back to assuming personal responsibility, we will continue on the path to tyranny.  "When the government fears the people, we have a republic.  When the people fear the government, we have tyranny." There is some question of who actually said it, but it was never as true as right now.

Pandering--To Tack Into The Political Wind...

The President has come out formally in favor of gay marriage, and claims to have evolved to that position. 

First, I do not believe government has any place in legislating any religious function.  If an administering official is willing to marry two people, will not God judge that?  Didn’t God have something to say about what happens when we judge?  (Look it up!) Government has no place in religion.  My grandmother would have said, "The government needs to tend to it's own knitting."

Second, the President has changed his mind several times, first supporting, then opposing.  This is not evolving, it is flip-flopping.  This means that he has no belief system of his own, and tacks into the political wind.  He says whatever he needs to get elected, and has done so all along.  This is lying—LYING!  What else would you call it?  Why do so many accept the lies?  

Someone once said that a person who stands for nothing will fall for anything.

Many of you will write or comment, condemning my criticism of the President, but you should do the research for yourself.  There are legitimate sources, using his own words, in context, that demonstrate his changing stances depending on what audience and for which office.

It is time to stand up to the lies, no matter the candidate, no matter the party or ideology.  It is time to ask the hard questions and check out the answers.  I have done some extensive research before writing.  You should do some extensive research before criticizing.

America Needs A Hand-Up, Not A Handout!

A society has a moral obligation to care for those who cannot care for themselves. Our present welfare system provides care for those who can't, and for many who simply won't. 

Our system needs to be revised to care for those who can't, and prevent those who won't from making a career of welfare. We need to eliminate "welfare as a way of life" except for those who do not have the ability to live any other way.

It is not an indignity for the able-bodied person to have to work for welfare, no matter how menial the task. A handout is not dignified. America needs a hand-up, not a handout.

Any person who is capable of performing a task, and is already being paid, should have work.  Counting paper clips, or delivering mail, or emptying trash are all better than accepting a handout.  Even the Bible says. "...for the laborer is worthy of his wages."

My father taught me that a job was something for which to be proud.  I say that a job is worth working for!  Our country was made great by the people who took pride in their best work, not by anyone who sat back and asked, "What can I get from the government?"

We don't have to formally create a job to provide someone with work, and if we do,  that should change!  Work is change we all can believe in.  Work is the recipe for recovery, even when we are in this deep!  Let's stop counting new job creations and get to work. 

Work as a way of life... What a concept!

Why Politics Belongs In Polite Conversation.

It is politicians who gave politics a bad name.  It was intentional.

If politics is a sore subject, we wont talk about it.

If we don’t talk about it, we won’t pay attention to it.

If we don’t pay attention to it, politicians may do whatever they want.

Look where we are now, because politicians can do whatever they want.

Sex, Politics & Religion are the three taboo subjects in polite, casual conversation.  Wait! The Administration is trying to regulate all three!  If we continue to remain silent, we will lose all three.  Where do we go from here?

It is time to take a stand.  It is just this simple:  If we give in to the Administration on the contraception fight, we will sacrifice a large chunk of our freedom of religious expression.  If we give up religious expression, next will be freedom of the press.  When that is gone, they will come after freedom of speech.

That will nullify the First Amendment, and if we give up freedom of speech, we will have sacrificed our ability to speak out against anything else they want to do.

Look up the definition of tyranny.  Really. Look it up.