Our founding fathers would be embarrassed to have their names connected
with this country. We were founded on the phrase ‘no taxation without
representation.’ Does anyone today know what that means?
England (the country we were a part of) had decided, as all governing
body do, that we weren’t paying enough back to them. So without the people
having a vote in any of this, the King created a Sugar Tax, a tax on tea, and
the Stamp Act. The end result was we were paying, according to Ben Franklin
about 12.5% of our income in taxes.
What do we have today? We have payroll taxes, gas tax, property tax,
sales tax, state and local taxes, surcharges, convenience fee s, luxury tax,
inheritance tax and a death tax. None of these were voted on by the people the
congress was elected to represent. We as a
nation pay between 24-33% of our income to taxes, or more. We were created as a
Representative Republic because of the experiences the founders had been
through with England.
Where’s the outrage?
We are a fat and lazy, a blotted and lethargic nation. We do not care
about anything substantive, as long as we have our reality TV, our lottery, and
our fake security blankets, we are happy.
The Romans created what they called ‘Bread and Circuses’’ to distract the
public from paying to close attention to what they were doing. The same is
being done today. The politicians, along with every media outlet, is only too
happy to keep us focused on the insignificant, i.e., an upcoming vote on a red
or blue state issue, manufactured crises, or the making of celebrities from
some small news item, when the country the founders cried over, died for,
argued and debated for and gambled their families futures on-is being attacked
by every conceivable enemy, both internally and externally, and no one cares.
The US as a
great nation is only a thing in history books now. We have begun the slide into
mediocrity and obscurity.
Every four years, revolving presidential candidates wave flags and blame the
ills of the country on another party or faction when they know that any tough
choice that would affect their popularity or election must be avoided. But at
the bottom of the issue is something else no one is talking about. No matter
who would have won the elections in 2008 or 2012, the decisions made by the president
would not have been that vastly different. Both parties are alike at both the
top and in the middle, with only differences at the bottom of either party. Which
is one reason people like me either don’t bother to vote or have reached such a
negative attitude about the country and its leaders.
The founders didn’t intend for everyone to vote, only white male
landowners have the right. When the laws were changed allowing anyone to vote
(well, any white male) Andrew Jackson was elected. I bet the Indians were
thrilled.
Although I have suggested many times that not everyone should be allowed
to vote. I don’t think we should go back to white male landowners, but I do
think there should be a IQ test. Voters should know the basic history of the
country: immigrants who become citizens by taking a citizenship test know more
about the country than most of us.
When I was a kid, US History was required in school, and not the PC BS
that passes for history now. Those who don’t learn history are doomed to repeat
it, but how can you learn it if it’s not taught anymore?
Our country today thinks freedom of speech means you can say anything in
an open forum and then simply quote the First Amendment.
What about the Second Amendment? It’s being given the back burner in
hopes that the same generation that is buying the global warming, save the
Earth by recycling hippy-dippy tree hugging kumbaya way of thinking will give
up their weapons so that no one will EVER die and live happily ever after on a
commune where we raise our own yogurt and wear flowers in our hair. Give up
your guns before you hurt yourself.
Or what about the Fourth Amendment? That’s the one that requires law
enforcement to have probable cause and a search warrant. What about all the
information that being gathered illegally on the populous, the wire taps, the ever
growing loss of freedom?
Or what about the Tenth Amendment? That’s the one that says that any
power not specifically given to the federal government is to be retained by the
states? The states have been more than willing to give the power away to the
federal boys in exchange for money that we have to borrow from other countries.
We have no security; other countries own us, including our debts and our allegiances.
We have reduced what once was seen as the greatest nation on Earth to nothing
more than a puppet country controlled by a multitude of hidden strings who want
nothing more than the entire country to collapse.
Feel safer?
