Just A dream

It is all just a dream. Sit back and relax, we will wake up soon. I believe that, you see. Because in my world the idea of America should not allow for what starts to stir me from this dream state. In my world America stands for the core belief, that the individual is a force of greatness. Individual responsibility still holds merit and the government as a whole is not here to run life but to assist only if necessary. Here is where you try and tell me that we are in great need of assistance. That we are in this mess because of the government and now they must do something to fix it. It would seem to some that now more than ever this is true. If I am to believe this then my dream has made a sharp transition to nightmare. We are not a nation of the needy. We are not a nation of built on the spirit of complacency and a never try attitude. We are a great nation of individuals who agree to stand united and refuse to fall. If the argument that the government is now responsible for all that we are, then forgive what follows next. I still do not choose to blame government or run head first, crying out, help me, Oh great and powerful ones. Are you ready to put blame where it solely lies? Us, that's who. We have a government for the people and by the people. We the people then hold entirely the blame for the failings of our government and the path it currently takes. We are the sole architect's of it's failure and the sole benefactors of it's misuse.

Remember what I just said about responsibility? Our founding fathers had a great belief in limited government. So much so that they decided to gather together and lay groundwork and commit to paper these ideals. Our independence was guaranteed and spelled out for us. Let me refresh the minds of the few who don't know.

When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government.

So you see clearly they derive their (JUST) powers from the consent of the governed. More importantly look to the line about not changing for light and transient causes. This seems important as our economy is transitory at the moment, however it seems by that definition it is not being allowed to change. The new administration however feels compelled to change to meet this transitional event despite what has been written above. We must suffer it seems as our tolerance for suffering must have increased dramatically over time. Conversely our willingness to accept our responsibility as the "governed" must have decreased.

The right of the people has been minimized to the will of self proclaimed visionaries who must know better than we the people. Maybe we have given up. If that is true then this mentality of defeatism will be nurtured. Rest assured however that we the people will be able to share again in something. The something I fear we will share in is the day our Lady America is no longer a dream but a nightmarish vision of her former self.

God Bless

Hope

We are at a crossroads as Americans. We face the inevitable axiom of historical reciprocity as we speak. It must be true that history repeats itself. This confuses some as we are to believe that we are facing change. Ambiguous in it's nature, change tends to make people believe that we are in for good times. I believe that change is a two sided coin. We have on one side change that can be positive, uplifting, meant for the betterment of all. On the other side of the coin is change that can be destructive, harmful and worst yet....irreversible. I Would like to point out our new president will always be a part of history being the first African-American president elected. History is the longest running record of events we have to see where things went right and where things went wrong. It is the single most important asset we have as a nation to gauge our present and future actions. And although the face has changed the game remains the same.

While everyone has been obsessed with race, religion, color and birthrights, they have forgotten the most important aspect of all, the mind. For I could be black, white, Asian or Hispanic and it matters not the package the gift is wrapped in, it is whats inside. All history cares about are the actions and events. We tend to lose site of the fact that we don't go around touching a hot iron because we either touched it once long ago and it hurt or we took someones word that if we touch it we will get burned. Some people have the belief that they can right the wrongs of history by repeating the same actions that took place and trying vainly to control a new outcome.. It seems to me that we are to not touch the iron again not find a new way to touch it and expect a different result.

Well here we are trying to touch the ideological iron. The policies that we as a nation are being force to deal with now are not new. They have been tried in vein before and we hope (operative catch phrase) that this time it will be different. Hope The concept of hope is funny because it really doesn't achieve a thing. If I walk away from my keyboard right now and decide that I am going to go do something else and I say, "I really hope that this finishes typing itself by the time I come back". I am going to be sorely disappointed when I look at my screen and find that it is not done. Now on the offshoot that it is done, by god a miracle has just occurred and I should thank whomever may have completed it for me. You see how it works, I either have to sit here ,get it done ,continue to type , take responsibility for completing it myself and know that it is written the way that I want. I get the benefit of knowing that is complete and in my own words Or I sit around and hope that it gets done for me by someone else and have no control on the content or outcome and sit back and say, " well at least it is done even though it's not what I wanted but the ends justify the means."

We don't need to have hope so much as we need to have the ability to know that we are empowered to achieve almost anything we want. Mr. Obama didn't sit back and hope he would be president he worked really hard to set in motion the processes that we required to achieve his desired outcome. And his voting base didn't hope he would be president they actually went to the voting booth and voted. So the irony of this whole thing is not lost. But this where it ends with hope. The work has been done and hopeful still sit and hope for allot and feel comfortable in no being involved it the process or it's outcome. All that is left to do now it hope that everything is taken care of. While on the the other side people are hoping that the damage isn't to severe, hoping that the changes are not irreversible. All I can say is the same principle applies to us as well. Instead of hoping that it is not to late, or hoping that there is a way to fight this, do something. I have said before that we are the governed and Mr. Obama and his co-Hort's only have their just powers as bestowed upon by us. So don't sit back and hope something or someone slows this radical change down, vote, fight, and be involved in the process. Hoping will get you no where but action will.

I hope you understand my point.