Saturday, October 31, 2009
Extra Ordinary Times
I came across the following written by a member of a financial forum I'm part of. The passion and sentiment of the writer are matched by the strength and accuracy of his reasoning. Ponder the following...
"We need extra ordinary men and women who are not afraid to step forward to call out the criminal justice system as it implies "Criminal Justice System, Justice for the Criminal". We need an advocate for the forgotten the Innocent it should be noted that it should be the "Innocence Justice System", as it implies "Justice for the Innocent".
Will you be the one who is not afraid of its citizens to have guns and to use them when criminals violate their family or property? Who will not hold them responsible for not protecting their neighbor when a crime is committed against their neighbor who does not feel one should own a gun. Will you be that extra ordinary individual who will call out the unelected cynical judges who have re-defined our constitution and have re-interpreted the laws to suit their own philosophies?
Will you be the monumental one who not only demands but expects the oversight of the federal reserve and demands accountability? A federal reserve that has burden the taxpayer by allowing over two trillion dollars to disappear and has no intention of telling the citizens of this great Nation who got the money or the discloser of the terms regarding our money. Will you be the one who champions changes and has a solution not rhetoric.
Extra ordinary times calls for those who have real solutions going into office not devising and trying to galvanize the solution after entering the office. We need extra ordinary men and woman who will put the UN in its place by telling them the UN will no longer be in the United States, were we are responsible for the upkeep and security at the expense of the taxpayer. We will continue to be a part of the UN but it will have to be another country that will have to be financially responsible for the world and not the piggy bank of the American taxpayer.
No more free aid in the billions of dollars that we have been sending for more than fifty years or so to governments just like our own old government who can not manage the money and just hoard up the cash for its political cash cows while its people starve and are in need of medical attention. We will however be glad just one more time to show them one more time what and how to do; then they can get it right or deal with the chaos that follows.
Yes we need someone who is not afraid to bring our jobs back home; because of NAFTA we have lost jobs in all fifty states roughly around 800,000 since inception in 1993 till around 2000. We have spent the last two decades de-industrializing our economy. Add to that our unemployment figures given at 9.8 which in reality is really 11.8. It is almost more than one can comprehend. Try a disappointing roughly three million jobs maybe more lost since 2008 due to the recession. Now we have an inefficient government trying to rush a health care plan through how come they just can't get it right. Will you be the one to speak out are you the extra ordinary individual we so desperately need?
We need the highly educated professionals the professors the Harvard graduate, but we also need the hard working everyday Americans. The one who sweats in the heat and shivers in the cold with callous hands and a weathered brow. We need the truck driver, the waitress, the carpenter, the stay at home mom, the iron worker and yes we need the plumber. The ones who discuss their disdain of an out of touch with reality government while on their working break or when talking with family and friends. You have a voice but our present government fails to acknowledge you. Will you please step forward; will you be what we know you can be that extra ordinary person who has and opinion and even has some solutions?
Will you be that extra ordinary individual that demands a responsible government to the citizens of America? Someone who is not afraid to use the word illegal and enforce all the laws pertaining to that word; illegal is just as it implies illegal whether it is a crime or immigration. We need those who understand we are living in extra ordinary and perilous times in America and will use whatever means at our disposal to secure our borders.
Are you that extra ordinary man or woman who will step forward and speak proudly of America and its contributions to the world rather than making apologies about the arrogance of America? We understand America has made mistakes but every other country has made them as well. Yes we need some extra ordinary individuals who believe in the greatness of America and its hardworking people and make no apologies Someone who has the resolve to stand up to the world and remind them once again just how much we have sacrificed on their behalf.
We need extra ordinary men and woman who can and will balance and operate on a balanced budget. Are you the one who is not afraid to demand term limits minimum of eight but no more than twelve? Hard working Americans who understand that it is a privilege to serve this great Nation and its citizens; it is not a right bestowed on them.
Once again where are the George Washington's and the Patrick Henry's who will stand up against tyranny as they did when this country fought and died for liberty.
Our leaders of today call us out on the tea parties one of the things that led us to fight for our freedom now they say we are trying to start sedition. Is that not what our founders did when they wanted freedom from the mother country yet we are somehow called unAmerican for the cause. America is tired of the insanity, of the minority (I'm talking numbers not race) shouting down the majority. Will you be the one to champion the cause and shout with the rest of us we are tired of paying for that DAMNED TEA!
Can we cross party lines and stop affiliating ourselves as republicans or democrats? We need someone who is not afraid of what politicians think about third party's; their only concern is the party and getting re-elected. Will you be that voice in the wilderness who is warning our great Nation? Let the government think what they will. Patrick Henry said it best "If it be treason then let us make the most of it". Will you step forward to lead us? Once again will you shout we are tired of paying for that DAMNED TEA! We need extra ordinary men and woman in these extra ordinary times if you do not come forward you may miss your true calling. If you will not stand tall and stand proud and lead this great Nation, then Suffer America you ain't had enough yet"
Blogged on the TSPTalk forum under the pseudonym ezmoney who lives in Greenville, NC.
"We are all in the same boat on a stormy sea and
we owe each other a terrible loyalty." - G. K. Chesterson
Labels: economy, patriotism, political philosophy
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Determining value...
Every individual has intrinsic value. When we get in the business of assigning value to an individual based on an arbitrary standard we come perilously close to adopting the standards of regimes such as Hitler’s Nazis who viewed the sick, homosexuals, and non-Arians as undesired objects to be destroyed.
Next came those who opposed his philosophies. They met their deaths simply because they didn’t agree. Millions gave their lives to bring that regime to its knees.
The idea of human value came up in our own constitution where a black man was only worth 3/5th that of a white man. That awful determination was legally corrected at the end of the Civil War with the 13th and 14th amendments. Though socially things have improved dramatically, there is still struggle in some hearts and minds.
The concept of superiority of one individual over the other, and thus of superior value, is not new. Margaret Sanger’s writings stated the purpose of her 1939 Negro Project that ultimately became the Planned Parenthood of today was that it be a vehicle of “discouraging ‘the defective and diseased elements of humanity’ from their ‘reckless and irresponsible swarming and spawning’.”
When we as a society devalue one segment where their destruction is preferable, it becomes a simple matter of extending that valuation to other “unwelcome” elements.
Healthcare, is it too expensive for everyone to receive healthcare in a government administered program? Triage those desiring help by a standard that determines their worth.
Under that system, those needing the most help, the elderly and chronically ill, will be at a severe disadvantage and the cheap “cure” is sodium pentobarbital. It’s called eugenics.
For those of lesser health issues, perhaps mitigating factors such as political philosophy or income level could be factored in. If you don’t agree with the current ideology in power, if you are of minimal productivity, you’re manic/depressive, you’re outta here.
I know those on the pro-abortion side will say that can never happen. Well, it did, Sanger proved it could happen. Hitler made it part of his party platform. Any time we begin to rationalize our actions we are on the cusp of serious personal moral decline.
And make no mistake; this is a personal issue even more than a social/political issue. It is a matter of what we as individual value. What we consider important. It is individual beliefs that eventually become policy, not the other way around.
Yes, I can justify abortion from a purely economic vantage point, but that places me in a position of arrogant superiority, not compassion. For if you can’t “afford” a child, the burden is placed on society and on me as a taxpayer.
Why would I want that burden? Because a child is more that a bit of tissue whose value hangs in the balance of emotional stress. That “tissue” has the power to become an important individual with all the possibilities afforded him/her in this nation. That “tissue” can achieve any goal desired if given the chance. His or her importance is determined not by what they become, but that they can become what they desire.
In April of 1822 there was a bit of “tissue” growing in a French woman’s womb that grew to study immunology and eventually Louis Pasture discovered vaccines for anthrax, cholera, smallpox and rabies.
In August of 1878 a 20 year old German Jew had a bit of “tissue” growing inside of her. She may have preferred to study the arts or piano, but her focus was on raising her family. Eventually that tissue grew and among other things invented a refrigerator that uses principals still used today in RV and mobile refrigeration.
Had he not moved to the US in 1932, Albert Einstein, who is celebrated as one of the greatest minds of the last century and developed his theory of relativity and unified field theory would probably have fallen to Hitler’s ovens.
In December 1960 another bit of “tissue” began to grow in the womb of a 19 year old single girl. She could have sought out an abortion; it certainly would have been more convenient. The baby’s father was a black man and such a liaison was unacceptable in society at the time. Few would have faulted her, abortion would be the lesser of two “evils.”
But she married the father, kept her child and later raised that child alone after being abandoned by her husband. On January 20, 2009 that child, that bit of “tissue,” Barack Obama, became the 44th President of the United States.
In February 1986 another bit of tissue began to grow. This time in the womb of a young girl from Illinois. She had lived across the mid-west United States, her father was an itinerate worker. She had graduated with honors from college and had a bright future ahead of her. Part of that future included marriage and she and her husband moved to Virginia where he was stationed in the Navy and she worked in a local bank.
Yeah, raising a family was hard work, and would get in the way of plans, but that bit of “tissue” was vastly more important than her original plans and desires. She kept it, raised her son when he was born, struggled through broken marriages where it would have been simpler to not have to deal with children.
Eventually that “tissue” grew into a magnificent young man with more potential and possibilities before him than even he could imagine. Yes he struggled through experiences that no young man should have to, but grew out of them to become talented with multiple abilities even as he struggled to find himself.
No one really knows what this bit of “tissue” will do with his life, he’s not really sure. But one thing is certain, he will have the opportunity to pursue whatever course he desires because his mom, that young girl with so many possibilities, put her life on hold to bring him into the world and give him the opportunity that 30 million other “bits of tissue” have been denied since he first appeared in his mom’s womb. She saw in that bit of “tissue” a value far above her own plans and circumstances.
He may become an engineer, a chef, a General, a titan in business, a politician, perhaps even a President. But one thing is certain, Billy Montgomery has the opportunity to do so because his mother didn’t simply consider him an inconvenience, an unwanted expense, a barrier to her future, a…a bit of tissue.
"We are all in the same boat on a stormy sea and
we owe each other a terrible loyalty." - G. K. Chesterson
Labels: abortion, Albert Einstein, Barack Obama, healthcare, Margaret Sanger, political philosophy, values