Henry Clay-Where Are You Know?

“I would rather be right than be President,” so said Henry Clay. Henry Clay was a compromiser. He was known as the “Great Pacificator” or the “Great Compromiser.”

He played a more integral part of our country than anyone other than our Founding Fathers. Yet few today have heard of him. How is this possible?

Born in 1777 in Hanover, VA, Clay moved to Kentucky as a young man and studied law. He entered the state’s House in 1803 and became Speaker of the U.S. House his first year, in 1811

Clay’s greatest political ambition was to be President. He was an official candidate in 1824, 1832, and 1844. Besides being a successful attorney in Kentucky, in roughly 50 years, he was in the state assembly, the U.S. House, the U.S. Senate and served as Secretary of State under John Quincy Adams.

It could be argued that Henry Clay saved the Country from going to Civil War on numerous occasions. Those arguments could be substantiated by history.

The first such occasion was the Missouri Compromise. As Speaker of The House during this critical time, he was able to pass the historic legislation. It can not be argued that without this defining moment, the duality of Americana would have been at war.

The last such event in which he was involved was thirty years later in the Compromise of 1850.

In between though years, he created what he called The American System, tariffs and internal improvements that would have made The United States a better and stronger nation.

It could feasibly be argued that if he had been elected President the Civil war might never have happened.

This could have happened because in his last race for the Presidency, in 1844, he lost by roughly 5000 votes. My personal opinion is that the election was stolen from him by James K. Polk working closely with his mentor, former President and Clay foe Andrew Jackson.

The War with Mexico would never have happened under Clay, he didn’t have the lust for expansionism the way Old Hickory and his Protégée, Young Hickory (as Polk was called) did. That war led to the renewed fervor over states rights that finally exploded with the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861.

. . .Like A Horse and Carriage

In the beginning, God created the Heavens and the Earth. He created man as a sort of caretaker of the Earth, and then in what I will say was his greatest creation, woman.

This is a blog about love. This will not become a hack piece about love. I want to talk about a once in a lifetime love. Maybe even rarer than that.

As for everything in life, we should look to the bible to find the answers.

Proverbs 31:26 She opened her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue is the law of kindness.

The woman in a loving relationship speaks with wisdom to the man in the relationship. The topic with which she speaks of wisdom is irrelevant. She speaks with the best interest of her partner at heart; therefore she would not speak foolishly.

As for the man in a loving relationship? We have all heard this. Genesis 2:24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. Simply put, his partner is the most important person in his life. More important than his parents, kids, friends, television, internet.

Too often, lust is confused for love. I believe it is such because too few of us truly understand love. My dad once described it by saying you should be more concerned by your partner than yourself.

Unfortunately, what we see is a world increasingly concerned with looks, money and power. The last few weeks will prove that by simply remembering all the coverage of the “royal” wedding. Women all over America were shown once again that it did not matter what your education level, whether you
are a moral and wholesome person or a complete scoundrel, or any of the other things that we should aspire to: instead, the spin of the wedding was her looks and his money.

Is it any wonder that the divorce rate is as high as it is? Actually, I’m surprised that the rate is not higher.

Love is NOT hard to understand, but it is sometimes hard to explain because few of us ever experience it or have it shown to us as something to emulate. Parents need to try to explain love to their children. We tend to shy away from issues involving sex and love. Kids can be exposed to
thousands of references to sex, from internet advertising to TV marketing, but how often are they exposed to love, honest and simple love? This is our failing. Until and unless we change this one simple thing, relationships between couples and God will continue to deteriorate.

Raising the Roof

The debt ceiling debate seems to be the only thing on the mind of EVERYONE in Washington. So why is it a concern? Or should I say, why NOW?

Our country is not fiscally sound, I dont believe that can not be argued by anyone. However, this is not a new phenomenon.

Our country's monetary system used to be backed by gold. Ask anyone of a certain age about the currency declaring it could be redeemed at face value for gold.

In 1933, FDR was sworn into the office of the Presidency. He was elected to save the country from the depression that nasty Herbert Hoover had gotten us into. One of his first acts was to take America off of the gold standard, thus controlling the value of our money. He also made it illegal to own gold.

http://www.conservativeusa.org/eo/1933/eo6102.htm

Since then, our wealth, our fiscallness, if I may invent such a word, has depended entirely upon some arbitrary value. One of the reasons gold has the value it does is because more can't be made. If we print money, then it ceases to have value.

That was the beginning of the problem. If the value can be changed, then legislators can decide how much something is worth. It should be the people, the people upon which the nation was founded, the people upon whom the principles were derived for the nation, it should be the people who decide the value. Should we be allowed to go into a home and tell the owner the value of something they possess? How is this different from what the government does to us?

The debt ceiling is only part of the problem. If we as a nation were more self-sufficent and did not import so much of our merchandise almost 92 billion in 2010 to just China alone. 

https://www.uschina.org/statistics/tradetable.html

We also have the highest coroporate tax rate in the world. Companies are standing in line to either leave America, or to never come here.

http://dailycaller.com/2011/03/16/america-to-have-the-highest-corporate-tax-rate-in-april/

What you saw, my fellow Citizens, was smoke and mirrors, bread and circuses, making a crisis out of everything to inflict more legislation on our already overburdened law books.

We are seeing the last vestiges of the greatest civilation ever on planet Earth. Do I believe it is too late to apply CPR? No, lady liberty can be saved, but it will take more than the bandaids that are being applied.