Dear Grandchild:<\/p>\n
What has happened since I have written this, the answers to my concerns should be obvious to you.\u00a0 But, here I am, your grandfather living in 2009, wondering why our Congress is trying to throw away our great Republic for the discredited system of socialism.\u00a0 It is becoming apparent to those of us that care, and who have an inkling of recent history, that there is, at this time, a cabal of people that are actively trying to overthrow our governmental\u00a0 system, our constitutional republic, for\u00a0 socialism, maybe even Marxism.<\/p>\n
I guess to understand what is happening, we in this time, will have to revisit the wisdom given to us by my forefathers when they wrote the US Constitution.<\/p>\n
People tend to think that socialism represents a new wave of intellectual thought.\u00a0 It was old hat in the 18th century.\u00a0 Communist societies had already failed all over the world, even in America; most notably in the\u00a0 Plymouth colony.\u00a0 These experiments were well documented and the failures were known to any who cared to study government.\u00a0 Socialism is not a system of freedom, but of compulsion. \u00a0 You cannot be a socialist and free.\u00a0 Socialism does not tolerate individual action.\u00a0 As a matter of fact individualism is the antithesis of socialism, for ideal socialism is pure “majority” rule that is dictated by committee.\u00a0 Everybody is supposedly the same in all facets, and the government that serves the masses is based on the premise of the “greatest good for the greatest number.” \u00a0 The individual is of no concern, everything is done for the benefit of the State. \u00a0 Our forefathers, who had been “property of the King” and of the state, were well acquainted with this kind of totalitarianism and wanted nothing to do with it.\u00a0 They were individuals and knew that their countrymen were, as they, unique beings.\u00a0 They also knew that the real power for the individual and mankind was to first encourage, then protect each person so that he or she could reach the full measure of his or her uniqueness.\u00a0 It was a weird concept … they identified it as Freedom<\/strong>.\u00a0 Each person peaceably doing what ever his mind and talents would let him do.\u00a0 Each person worshiping as they saw fit, traveling wherever they wished, working at what ever task they wished, associating with whomever they wished; in short doing anything that struck their fancy;\u00a0 it was in a word … Freedom<\/strong>.\u00a0 They had fought a war to rid themselves of tyranny and they adopted a form of government to prevent\u00a0 its reappearance.<\/p>\n But the forces of evil began to attack the Constitution at the very beginning, from its inception.\u00a0 Slowly at first, but with more and more intensity as the country neared the 20th Century.\u00a0 Probably, the best year ever for the totalitarianists, the Socialists, was 1913, the year when the 16th and 17th Amendments, the income tax and the direct election of the Senate, coupled with the creation of the Federal Reserve System, were all adopted.\u00a0 Since that time the power of the States have been slowly eroded, but for the totalitarians, even that tactic was too slow.\u00a0 It is\u00a0 now apparent us that people who wanted to destroy the US consciously decided the method to use was to destroy its infra-structure.\u00a0 Since about 1960, pressure groups like the “environmental movement” and the socialistic leaders of “organized labor” have continually, with the help of socialistic members of Congress, both Democrat and Republican, attacked the heart of our national interest and productivity.\u00a0 I have included a list of some of their attacks for your elucidation below:<\/p>\n I could go on, for I am sure that there are many other examples of political meddling that could be cited, for in addition to environment zealots trying to prevent the utilization of the country’s wealth of natural resources, many other vectors inimical to the health of the country are at play.<\/p>\n Once that the producers in the nation were stymied, the scions of bureaucracy, manifested by those who believed in socialism,\u00a0 when given the reins\u00a0 of government, began to dictate policy by fiat instead of law.\u00a0 In the last year, the government has appropriated but not funded about a trillion and one half dollars for “dire” social emergencies, but has made no attempt provide the money, because it didn’t have the will to tax it from the populace.\u00a0 They just “borrowed” it.\u00a0 The government breached bankruptcy law, stealing General Motors and Chrysler from the secured bond holders and giving the companies to labor unions.\u00a0 The government has squandered billions in “give-aways” to taxpayers, mortgagees and to boondoggles like “cash for clunker” automobiles.<\/p>\n You can see clearly what happened, but we, at this time, can only guess of the outcome.\u00a0 It must be obvious to you\u00a0 that there was a conscious effort made to destroy America’s primary engine of\u00a0 wealth, its mining, lumbering, farming, processing, manufacturing and energy production, a cancer that was so insidious and incremental so as to be\u00a0 unobserved by most of us .\u00a0 You can also see that our “can do” will was ripped from us by obtuse laws, rules and regulations that killed our spirit and blunted our quest for a better life.\u00a0 As for us, we are just beginning to react.\u00a0 What many of us see is the distinct possibility o f national bankruptcy, of a coup d’ etat by the socialists … or worse.\u00a0 Of course if the outcome is different from what seems inevitable and the republic still lives for you in your time, it was because, beginning with a few of us, we convinced the multitudes to rise up and stop the insanity … to preserve human Freedom<\/strong>.<\/p>\n If only you could write me from your vantage and tell me what happened … too bad that letters to the future are one way … but maybe I wouldn’t want to know how bad we, here, screwed it up.<\/p>\n Your Grandfather<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dear Grandchild: What has happened since I have written this, the answers to my concerns should be obvious to you.\u00a0 But, here I am, your grandfather living in 2009, wondering why our Congress is trying to throw away our great … Continue reading \n