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| "America in Distress" |
America, it's time to come out and say it: We are in trouble. Continuing on this path can have only one logical outcome, and I think we all know what that is. Our system is rampant with inefficiency and corruption. It no longer works. It's time for a real change.
Our leaders lack even the basic vision required to accept one inescapable fact: America is in distress. We have some serious problems. Because they will not accept reality, how can We the People ever hope our leaders will fix the issues we now face? Rather than accept the facts, Washington bickers back and forth over petty issues and never makes useful agreements on matters of importance. Instead, they continually kick the can down the road, which is only making the inevitable crash much more devastating. America is on a bus hurtling towards a solid brick wall at 200 miles an hour, and Washington is squabbling over where they are sitting. The few voices who try to bring attention to where the bus is headed are lauded as alarmists and ignored. We need more leaders who see, accept, and rise to the challenges of our time. We need representatives with enough vision to correct our current path to destruction and restore our once-great nation.
We have far too many lawyers in our leadership. Somewhere along the line, an unspoken agreement that a law degree is needed to run for office seems to have been enacted. Where are all the doctors? The scientists? The farmers? The mechanics? The tech workers? In short: Where are all the Americans? All I see are people who, by some stroke of chance, were born into money and power. In 2010, the average campaign budget for the House of Representatives (the lowest position in high office) was $1,163,231. While just 1 percent of Americans are millionaires, 66 percent of senators are millionaires, as are 41 percent of House members. The Constitution ordained a government of the people, by the people, and for the people. Clearly, we do not have the type of leaders the Framers intended. Instead, we have droves of wealthy lawyers making our laws. The laws being made are so chalked full of ambiguous jargon, only people with a law degree can make sense of them. These laws are practically impossible for the average American not to break, and when they inevitably do, the lawyer friends of our "leaders" get to profit from your suffering. All of this is unacceptable, and it needs to change.
Our system is rank with crony capitalism. It is designed in such a way that a mega corporation like Monsanto - whose current and former members now occupy 18 positions in our government - can sell its "food" to hundreds of millions of people without adequate testing. Even with the safety of the product in question, the system does not require any sort of labeling. At the same time, the "mom and pop" organic farm is burdened with impossible regulations and licensing requirements before they are allowed to sell to even their neighbors. People who try to grow food in their own front yards are being harassed by city officials. Many laws on the books are subtly designed to allow large corporations and people in positions of power to do as they please while restricting the average American as much as possible. This is the exact opposite of what our country needs. "Leaders" who are more interested in money than your freedoms have complacently allowed our nation to come to this.
The fiat money system has created a situation in which we are being quietly robbed of our wealth every single day. Each new dollar the Federal Reserve prints (and they print in excess of 85 billion per month) takes away just a little bit more of the purchasing power of the dollars you already have. Combined with our unconstitutional tax system, this helps to explain why it is already too hard for most families to keep food on the table. Bills consume most peoples' lives and distract them from the larger picture of the world around them. Our "leaders" use your distracted state to start unconstitutional wars and pass laws that provide unlimited protections to corporations like Monsanto, and it's all done without any challenge from you. They take your silence as consent. This too needs to change. We need to return to sound, gold-backed currency. We need to eliminate the Federal Reserve's ability to destroy the dollar. We need to stop attempting to draw Iran into the next world war. Most importantly, We the People need to realize what is happening and explicitly withdraw our consent.
Despite President Obama's "eloquent" speeches and what the (borderline fraudulent) unemployment numbers claim, our economy is not recovering. If we don't change directions, it will never recover. The jobs that are being added are largely low paying, part time jobs. Meanwhile, we are losing more full time jobs than we are gaining part time jobs most months. Misleading free trade agreements have led to a mass exodus of manufacturing jobs. As a result, we have been importing more than we have been exporting for far too long. America has been living beyond her means for too many years. The credit card is maxed out, and the bill collectors are knocking on our door. This, too, is a major problem our leaders refuse to acknowledge.
The verdict is in and the results are all around us: The policies of our current leadership are failing. It's time for some fresh ideas and a new direction. Obama promised us "Hope and Change," but he has broken every promise he ever made. He has delivered the opposite of "Hope" with the only "Change" being a further reduction of personal Liberty. Our leaders seem to have forgotten what they swore to when they took their Oath of Office. We need more representatives in government who know and care about what the word "Constitutional" means. Representatives who hold their Oaths of Office in the highest possible regard, as was intended by the Framers. Representatives who will swear to and then actually protect, defend, and preserve the Constitution of the United States of America. In short: We need representatives who will protect your individual Liberty instead of a corrupt system.
The time has come for a Return to Liberty. Whether or not this return is successful will rest on the actions of We the People.
