I usually don't share my political writing on my blog.....BUT lately under this current time I feel, Why Not? The country is under attack from revisionists trying to change our history, there is a sad, continual habit of lawlessness and as American citizen's we need to start waking up to what is really going on. This post is a true "rant" against the system. It was written over 2 years ago but still applies today and sadly the situation in America has gone on a downward spiral since then. I love our country and the freedom it provides. If this post light's a fire to stand up and do what we can, whether it is writing a letter to your congressman, voting, or re-awakening a new passion for freedom in just one reader, than this post is worth it.
Hey, everyone I’m excited to say I am changing careers. This new way of life is so good I just have to tell you about it. You’ll want to change careers too after I tell you all the wonderful benefits this job will afford you and your family. Now this job takes a little elbow grease to acquire but once you’re in you are set for life. You’ll get free healthcare and not only for the life of the job but for the rest of your life. You’ll get enough money to run not only one but two households, an expense account to buy meals, a more than decent salary and when you retire a handsome pension. Once you land this job you’ll be called “honorable” and held in high esteem by throngs of people. And the kicker is you don’t really need to care enough to hold that attribute. I’ve even heard the company throws in a jet-set vacation package and more regularly than you’d think. At first I thought this was too good to be true, and you know what they say when something looks too good to be true. I’ve done the research and found out that, yes to my disbelief this job is real. So come on, let’s go fill out that application and leave our hardworking, backbreaking, yolk carrying burden of a job and live the highlife.
O.K. I have to admit I’m being cynical when I describe our elected government officials’ job and I tend to be harsh and unforgiving when I feel spurned. So I’ll give quarter to those few and rare officials that have upheld their office and truly taken the people’s needs and interests and held them above their own. They are an anomaly in today’s political system and deserve to wear the term ‘honorable’ before their name. I do not begrudge these few the benefits of holding public office because they earned it with their sacrifice and felt no right to take for the betterment of themselves. In my court they would be granted the John Adams Award.
In these present times the abuse of public power has grated so deep on my psyche that I’m to the point of needing the ‘extreme’ to feel I can deal with their long dictatorship of wanton pleasure. John Adams was accused of taking an extreme stance for his patriotism and public office to the degree of abandonment of his personal life. What a perfect example of passion for the greater good and purpose for a cause bigger than oneself. A true political hero, if there can be such a relationship between words. John Adams stated, “There must be a positive passion for the public good, the public interest, honor, power and glory…and this public passion must be superior to all private passions. Men must be ready, they must pride themselves, and be ready to sacrifice their private pleasures, passions and interests, nay, their friendships and dearest connections, when they stand in competition with the rights of society.” He lived this decree for the great success of our country. His wife, who lived with the effects of her husbands sacrificial extremism held no resentment. Abigail Adams paid her own sacrificial price and had a man with whom she could be proud of, as her letters to him stated with no doubt.
It would be great to require public officials to study John Adams Political Principles upon acceptance of their term, getting officials to submit to them is another matter. The matter lies within the heart and comes down to having the strength and conviction to do what is right even at personal cost.
So I put out the call, a request, one I fear will land on deaf ears, one I shutter to think will not be heard because my faith in the current elected officials falls under a blanket of greed and selfishness. Where are the John Adams and George Washington’s who will rise up, choose not to abuse their power, have a shred of decency and integrity an ounce of honor and begin to turn this country around? Who will take the oath they spoke under the eyes of God literally and “assume a solemn duty as steward of public resources?” Just reading those words and placing them under the context of the newly elected President Obama makes my temperature rise to the point I can hardly contain my anger. The First act of abuse was his inaugural ball. Let me give you a little background to support the fact Obama doesn’t give a rat’s ass about the people’s welfare. He campaigned for change; he wrote about the audacity of hope, was no doubt debriefed about the tumultuous economic status that would be top priority to deal with once he took office. Yet he holds one of the biggest, most expensive to date inaugural balls at tax payers’ expense. Over $150 million to celebrate and $50 million to repair the damages of the wasteland that was left behind. I dare to say this depiction will foreshadow his term and leave our country in a shamble that I fear we will not recover. It is understood that all President’s have this moment of celebration and I would not want to withhold this honor, but is it much to ask to have a little restraint, especially within the scope of knowledge laid at your feet? The Second act of abusing this oath was the absurd spending package labeled under the guise of a Stimulus plan. Our steward racked up the biggest bill America has seen to date, so big our children and grandchildren will be paying for it and the kicker is there is no benefit for the public. He stole the public’s money and funded his interest simply because he has the power to do so. He pushed it through quickly because it was beginning to stink, people were beginning to question. Is this a pattern beginning to show itself? Obviously it is, shown by his third act of “audacity” His Trillion Dollar Budget Proposal pitched to Congress. You don’t need to be an economic major to understand the math behind his proposal doesn’t add up. When it comes down to it, it is down right fraudulent.
I have to sit here and look at my hands tremble as I write this and give my brain pause to even move forward in thought. I’m frozen by the fear his words register in me. I wonder what “audacious” act he’ll come up with next that will cost me not only my money but my freedom. I shake my head and still can not believe this man was voted into office by a landslide. Are the American people really that gullible? Americans have lost their way and given away their power to an empty ideology. They have lived off Obama’s pied piper tune and been lulled by socialisms ethereal high only to be blinded and fleeced and they won’t have anyone to blame but themselves.
Michelle Obama stated, “For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country” in relation to her husband running for presidency. Well now that He has become president I say this, “for the first time in my adult lifetime, I fear the country will never be the same and being proud of it will be a thing of the past.”
American’s, patriot’s, citizen’s let us not let our forefathers sacrifice be for naught. Stand up take action with your words as well as presence. Let your voice be heard before you have no voice with which to protest. Let us pray as our forefathers did and I leave this example by John Adams upon residency in the White House, “Before I end my letter, I pray heaven bestow the best of blessings on this House and all that shall hereafter inhabit it. May not but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof!”
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