A Letter To Americans

[Len_A]

It wasn't intended as a slight to Len.

 

But whenever someone (anyone) tries to say the whole mess is anything less than a bipartisan f!#@-up, I will call them on it.

There's no doubt that it was a bipartisan f***-up. On that we agree, but I will place more than 50% of the blame on the GOP, only because they were the majority party at the time and introduced, and lobbied for, the Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000.

 

As the minority party at the time, the Democrats culpability is two fold. One, a majority of them enthusiastically jumped on the deregulation bandwagon without much forethought, and second, those that didn't jump on the deregulation bandwagon failed their responsibility to force an open debate on the merits and pitfalls of that bill.

 

And I stand by my assertion that it's a POS law that needs to be completely overturned. I can't find one redeeming factor in it.

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Let me open by saying that I don't care what your political beliefs are. I don't care what your gender is, or your age, race, financial status, or religous affiliation is. I don't care becuase these are the lines along which politicians work to keep us separated, to plot one against the other and play the role of champion to us all. What I care about is to have the opportunity to live in a country where opporunity is something that we have. What I believe is that freedom is given to us by a higher power. Some people may call that power God, others Allah, still others Buddah and so on. Regardless of what name you may call your diety, I believe the fact remains that we as humans inately understand that there are forces at work in the universe that we may never understand, and perhaps we are not meant to. But I am not here to debate the existance of God, particularly with those of you who have cast off all belief in him. He exists, this I know, as surely as breath fills my lungs, the sun warms my back and the wind cools my brow. To that end I believe that once in a great while a gathering of just the right people at just the right time in the right place can bring about a result so fantastic and so insipiring that the idea becomes a nation. Ideas start as words and the words that started this nation were these.

 

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, --

 

We live in a nation where the idea was that the government was accountable to the people and that it derived it's power from the people's consent. Government of the people, by the people, for the people. This has not of late been the case however. It was Thomas Jefferson who prophetically said "Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny."

 

Do we live under tyranny? Some might say that we do. I would argue that at this point we still enjoy many freedoms that others do not. But rest assured, those that crave power and control above all else are hard at work to expand their control over we the people. They find their way to the halls of power where they ply their trade in an effort to make us all like minded individuals. They operate under the guise of doing the peoples work, serving the common good, championing the cause of the little guy. They profess to have your best interests at heart and make all manner of promises about how they will improve your lives if you will only entrust them with the power they seek.

 

In recent weeks one such promise was made that has captivated many in our fair nation. For some it was a promise of hope and change. For others it was a promise that forebode an ominous future. A promise to "spread the wealth around." It is the sort of rhetoric many of us have heard before, though never from an American politician. It is the kind of promise that seems to come naturally to a person who pits the working class against the wealthy. Who paints the wealthy as deserving to have their fortunes taken for the common good. Who proclaims that we will rebuild our economy "from the bottom up", a feat never accomplished in the history of economics, and for good reason. It is of little surprise to me that when we hear such promises, such rhetoric and such plans that there are those among us who will naturaly ascribe the title that is justifiably accorded to such a person. Socialist. In light of the 2001 radio interview that has recently surfaced there is no doubt left in my own mind that Barack Obama is in fact a socialist.

 

In some places, the voting has already commenced. Soon we will have a new President. I don't think there is any doubt in the mind of anyone reading this for whom I will cast my vote. John McCain is by no means the man I would have preferred to run on the Republican ticket and frankly I think he has so mismanaged his bid for the White House that if he wins it will be in spite of himself, not because of himself. Given the alternative, I will gladly vote for him if only because I know that at least under John McCain's leadership I will have the opportunity to continue living in a nation where we have opportunity.

 

For those of you that have decided to vote for socialism I have some prophetic words of my own.

 

When the socialists rob us of our Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms remember that it was not just the conservatives who told you they would do it. It is the socialists themselves who have promsied what they call "common sense" measures though they have never clarified what "common sense" means. One mans common sense could easily be another mans loss of rights. It is the socialists who have promised to bring back and make permanent gun banning legislation that was immensely unpopular the first time the socialists passed it. This time, however, they have expanded greatly the number of fireams they don't want you to have and the effort will effectively destroy the Second Amendment. If this should happen, you have no one to blame but yourselves.

 

When the socialists raise your tax burden and you are made to pay more to the government you may cry all you like about how Barack promised that 95% of us would not pay one dime in a tax increase. Your anguished pleas will fall on deaf ears once they have taken control. Perhaps rightly so because anyone with even so much as a 5th grade education can take a look at Baracks proposed tax plan and realize that the numbers simply do not work. In order to pay for everything that he wants the "champion of the middle class" will eventually have to raise your taxes. If you are not smart enough to see that, despite the repeated warnings of conservatives, despite the fact that even some in the media have said the plan doesn't work as he has pitched it, then perhaps you deserve to pay more. Perhaps that is just retribution for an entire group of people who so willingly side with a man that wants to punish people simply for having more money than the rest of us. If he will do it to them, he will do it to you. You have no one to blame but yourselves.

 

When you have aged into your golden years and your body doesn't quite work the way it once did, perhaps then you will find the final irony in putting the socialists in power. As you grow older you will have a front row seat to watch the spectacle of what once was the finest health care system in the world degrade into a pitiful and ineffective shadow of its former self. As the number of days ahead grows fewer than those behind, remember that in many socialized health care systems the government can at some point decide that your life is not worth saving. That the cost is not worth the effort, not that the effort would be all that effective anyway. They will deny you care based on the idea that you have lived long enough or because you had some politically incorrect habit in your younger years like smoking or eating too much, or drinking. If only you had been like minded enough to take better care of yourself in your youth. If you don't believe this can happen then I suggest you ask someone who has lived under the British health care system. You have no one to blame but yourselves.

 

This is our nation. Ours. Americans. It does not belong to the republican party. It does not belong to the democrat party. It belongs to the American people. We are responsible for it, entrusted with its care, so that we might pass on to our children a country where they have the opportunity to be anything they wish to be. A country where hard work and devotion are rewarded, not penalized. A country where regardless of race, age, gender or religous preference you will not be denied the right to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. This is not an easy task. It requires vigilance, and the will to stand up and be your own man, your own woman, an American. It requires that you place more importance on knowledge and learning than video games and TV shows. It requires that you pass on that which you know to your children so that they too will be as vigilant and hard working. If you yearn to be free, to live free and to remain free than you must never place your faith and your fate in the hands of the government. This I know because a couple hundred years ago a briliant man who stood among a group of brilliant men had this to say of government.

 

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force.

Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.

 

George Washington

 

 

 

 

 

 

Its up to you Americans.

 

Thank you for taking the time to write this. I appreciate your efforts and I agree 100%. People should wake up to the facts that you stated above.