Our founding father’s said that our rights come not from the government but from nature and nature is God. I had it right! So is it our government’s right to equalize people’s lives by taking from the rich and giving to the poor? What many Americans do not realize, that by our government doing this, they are, in fact, taking away our rights as individuals? Do we want our government to control our lives totally?
Maybe Samuel Adams said it best when he said: “If you love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”
Our principles that have made our country great are being stomped on. Our country is being hit hard with the lack of jobs. Just look at what is happening to the school system. We have never seen this kind of down hill spiral in our lifetime. People have to depend on the government more and more instead of themselves for their livelihoods. We are sliding down into a pit of poverty. Some people have not seen the light as of yet because some are still wearing blinders. We have got to stand up for our rights to keep from sliding into that pit of dependency.
The people we now have in our own government want to remake our government and destroy the Constitution. Wake up people and smell the coffee! Believe what you see and believe what you hear! This is real! We have got to stand up for our rights. Is taking away our guns going to make our country safer? Here is something to think about: If we were attacked by another country on American soil, how would we be able to defend our homes? John Adams said, “Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” Our founding fathers were intuitive in the way they wrote the Constitution. These were God fearing men.
It appears to me that some of the people we have elected to run our country do not have our best interest in mind. This scares me. As Americans, we all need to investigate and learn for ourselves what our government wants to change and what our founding father’s principles were so that we can be informed and ready to stand up for our beliefs.
Here are some of the things our founding father’s believed: “Any people that would give up liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” – Benjamin Franklin
“The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it an instrument for the people to restrain the government.”
– Patrick Henry
This one makes me think of how our government seems to be trying to take more and more of our rights away. We do not want too much government control.
“A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our happiness.”
-- Thomas Jefferson
I say we should all get educated and open our eyes to what is going on. We have to be informed! It is more important at this time in history than at any other time.
I got some of my ideas from http://www.thoughts.com/averageamerican/Whats-happening-to-our-country.
I think that part of the problems is that schools haven't taught their students how to figure out truth from lies. There wasn't a course that I know of in school that taught me to find the facts and figure out for myself what is true! New and old teachers need to figure out how to create teaching moments to have their students realize that there are shades of gray and how to judge what is right and what is wrong information. And that not even the teacher is right all the time!
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