Distrust of Power Not Necessarily Disrespect for Leaders

The Founders had more confidence in the people than they did in the leaders of the people, especially trusted leaders, even themselves.  They felt the greatest danger arises when a leader is so completely trusted that the people feel no anxiety to watch him.

Alexander Hamilton wrote:

For it is a truth, which the experience of all ages has attested, that the people are commonly most in danger when the means of injuring their rights are in the possession of those [toward] whom they entertain the least suspicion. (Federalist Papers, No. 25, p.164.)

Two hundred years of American history have demonstrated the wisdom of the Founders in proclaiming a warning against the frailties of human nature in the people’s elected or appointed leaders. Every unconstitutional action has usually been justified because it was for a “good cause.”  Every illegal transfer of power from from one department to another has been excused as “necessary.”

— Bailouts, Bank take-overs, Auto Industry take-overs,Obamacare… any of this sound familiar?

The whole explosion of bureaucratic power in Washington has been the result of ‘trusting” benign political leaders, most of whom really have good intentions.

Armstrong Williams:

The social engineering of liberal policy makers often has the unintended consequences of making life more difficult for the people it is trying to help.  They justify liberal policies by correctly highlighting real institutional barriers like racism and historical poverty that have historically held back the disadvantaged. However, instead of teaching the disadvantaged to fish so they can feed themselves for a lifetime, they merely give them a fish to eat.

A Miracle that Changed the World, continued:

Thomas Jefferson struck out with all the force that tongue and pen could muster against trusting in human nature. Said he:

It would be a dangerous delusion where a confidence in the men of our choice to silence our fears for the safety of our rights; that confidence is everywhere the parent of despotism; free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy, and not confidence, which prescribes limited constitutions to bind down those whom we are obliged to trust with power; that our Constitution has accordingly fixed the limits to which, and no farther, our confidence may go….

In questions of power, then, let no more be said of confidence in man, BUT BIND HIM DOWN FROM MISCHIEF BY THE CHAINS OF THE CONSTITUTION. (The kentucky Resolutions of 1798, Annals of America, 4:65-66; emphasis added.)

The wealth of information and context revealed in this book is astounding. I recommend that anyone concerned about the future of America, go out and buy this book today.

The foundation of our country and the principles which have made us the greatest civilization of the planet are explained and exposed as the salvation of human race. To understand where we are going today, we must understand the importance of the Founding Fathers and the radical change in governess which they established.

History was never my favorite subject during my years of education. Dates, names, places… all seemed so overwhelming to me. Totally lost in the flood of information, the context was illusive, if not obscure. The 5000 Year Leap, by W. Skousen, taught me more in a few days then I learned in years of formal education.

Asked to grade themselves on their knowledge, 89 percent of adults polled believed they could pass a basic test on the American Revolution. However, 83 percent failed the test that covered the underlying beliefs, freedoms, and liberties established during the Revolution.

This book should be REQUIRED READING in every school in America.

The events of the last 3 or 4 months have been flabbergasting to say the least. I have watched and listened in utter amazement. Time after time, I was shocked by the media, by the President, and by our elected representatives.

I am looking forward to the New Year. I can no longer sit by and be a spectator. I have been gone to long, but the wait is over. I will respond to past events and try to get back up to speed as quickly as possible.

I hope all had a Merry and Bright Christmas.

2010 will be a historic year.

We will make history. We will stand up for the constitution. We will fight for our freedom.

Change is coming.

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL.

Regards,

Phantom Lady

“Monsanto Co., the world’s biggest seed maker, said today that it planned to make deeper work force cuts than previously announced, saying it will reduce its staff by about 8 percent to cut costs. In June, Monsanto had said it was cutting about 4 percent of its staff, or about 900 jobs. The new target of 8 percent indicates the St. Louis-based company is cutting about 1,800 jobs.”

How is that hope and change working for you?

That’s more people without health insurance, and guess what? What better thing can happen to Obama, more and more people to lose their health insurance, demanding it.

How is that hope and change working out for you, America?

Unemployment is approaching 10%. We are $13 trillion in the hole. Our government is borrowing and printing money almost as fast as they can spend it. And Obama wants to throw more money away on government-run health care.

We’re eight months into his Stimulus plan and we are worse off than we were. And yet he opens the speech to the Congress with the biggest lie…

“We’re coming back from the brink with the economy, our plan is working.”

Hu ???

From CNBC:

“Home foreclosures in August jumped 18 percent from a year ago, but decreased 0.47 from the previous month, according to a new report by RealtyTrac, an online marketplace for foreclosure properties. In all, 358,471 properties in the United States received foreclosure fillings in August, just slightly below July’s record level of 360,149 properties. ‘The August report demonstrates that there is still an ample supply of properties filling the foreclosure pipeline even while the outflow of bank-owned REO [real estate owned] properties onto the resale market is being more carefully regulated.’ … Michael Barr, the Treasury’s assistant secretary for financial institutions, told a House Financial Services subcommittee Wednesday that even if the Home Affordable Modification Program is a success –” this is where Obama will keep you in your house, “– we should still expect millions of foreclosures.”

And yet we’re coming back from the brink of the economy. Our plan is working. We saved a million jobs.

Really???

McCain’s version included giving himself some wiggle room on his commitment not to raise taxes. Obama, hopeless as ever, merely offered to change course with some “immediate action.”

But neither candidate mentioned Congress, my friends, and as everybody who’s had Civics 101 knows, it isn’t the president who ultimately sets the budget or formulates tax policy; it is Congress. Just as important, Congress performs all kinds of social engineering — from housing to education — which greatly impacts the economy as well.

With gas prices and housing among the topmost issues for voters, we have a golden opportunity, here, for conservatives.

For decades, liberal policies from Congress — forbidding more drilling and refining of oil — have restrained energy growth. Even now, Nancy Pelosi refuses to allow drilling to be taken up by the House (because she says she has to “save the planet“).

And liberal welfare-state policy-making from Congress fueled the sub-prime debacle (not Wall Street), as well as the horrendous election-year “housing rescue” bill that just passed. In every screw-up — from education to health care — you will find the fingerprints of liberalism and Congress.

The real “change“ required to heal decades of mismanagement in government is not about changing the cast of characters in the White House or a change of skin color of a candidate.

It really does begin in Congress… after it begins with you — because you’re the one who send them there!

The assumptions here are breathtaking, including the notion that all-knowing government bureaucrats can make people eat approved food. I mean, people — including the poor — choose what they want from menus (what they can afford), and there’s no reason to expect that’s going to change. And what happens when the “wholesome” restaurants that the city council wants to move into these neighborhoods don’t show up? Will the council mandate that they appear — and then dictate how much they can charge for their more expensive menus? Will council members decree no french fries or burgers… ever?

The same day as the fast food ban, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors enacted their own injunction, this one prohibiting pharmacies from selling tobacco products. It goes into effect in the fall.

Now, California is awash in budget problems, and Democrats are talking about raising taxes on businesses again. The things that these dunderheads are tasked to do — like manage their own budget, provide quality education, and fix the roads — they can’t do. Yet these meddling liberal tyrants want to control the inventory of businesses; they want to ban businesses they don’t like — just to satisfy their arrogant self-delusions!

You know, sooner or later (I hope), even you liberal voters are going to have your fill of these people… maybe not, though.

I live here and I am amazed at the how fast people will run over that LIBERAL CLIFF.

God help us all.

Oh, I forgot, California liberals are repelled by God… oh well, for the Conservatives that do live here, God help us.