1775, the first shot!

Tuesday-April 19, 2011

1775, the first shot!

When you sit back and take in all that is occurring around the world and in our world we call the United States of America, what do you think of?

When our forefathers sat back at the end of their day and talked about what was going on in our country, they formulated an idea of just what they wanted. It didn’t include an environmental lobby, it didn’t include what Russia wanted in terms of domination, it didn’t include Hamas and Islamic terrorism, it didn’t include guys like George Soros and it, for sure, didn’t include a government that robbed from productive citizens only to redistribute that wealth to a segment of society that government made dependent on food stamps and welfare.

When we consider the story of how we gained our liberty and for what reasons we wanted liberty, can you say, for sure, that Americans still understand what that struggle was about today. Can you say, for sure, that we shouldn’t keep that struggle ongoing today?

When we formed our nation, it was formed from raw courage and not from a dependency on government. It was formed in the belief that there was a higher meaning for worship. When we formed our country, the struggle was over freedom and the purity of thought that was attached to the meaning of liberty. When the country was formed, there was no talk about tax brackets or entitlement programs. When we formed our government, we didn’t have a two party system and we didn’t have one party that was working against all that is good.

When we formed our government, we formed it to stay true to a Constitution and not oversee the wealth of a great nation, only to manage its demise. When we formed our government, we didn’t worry about the government expanding into every facet of our lives through taxation, through regulation and through the loss of liberty and freedom from men who would reshape the foundation of what the founding was all about.

When w e formed our government, we knew the value of what a strong economy was. We valued good credit and we didn’t overspend, only to print false money that is not backed up by independent wealth. When we formed our country, government encouraged private wealth and encouraged private business to create jobs. When our government was formed, it was formed by the hands and the mind of entrepreneurs.

When our country and government were formed, they were formed to grow a union of citizens. They were not formed to broaden a labor union, so that only one political party could derive strength.

On today’s date, in 1775, Minuteman Captain John Parker orders not to fire, unless fired upon. The American Revolution started at Lexington Common and is known as “the shot heard ‘round the world.” It was the shot that other countries and other people around the world wanted to join and it was the shot that brought honor to a country which brought freedom to its people.

Today, with a massive government and a new breed of leaders who do not think they are accountable and who think they have the power to reshape a country’s destiny have forgotten what their ancestors gave to them. Today, our country’s financial credit has been called into question. Our leaders should be held responsible for what the Standard & Poors has now rated that once envied U S economy.

In his commentary, Mark Wittington said, “Despite running huge budget deficits, the United States has always enjoyed the highest bond rating possible, 'AAA/A-1+’ according to Standards & Poors. But that rating has a one in three chance of ending, thanks to President Barack Obama.
While reaffirming the high rating, Standards & Poors lowered its future outlook for the United States' credit worthiness from "stable" to "negative." The United States retains a relatively strong economy, but $1.5 trillion deficits have got the bond traders increasingly concerned. Thus the United States government has been put on notice. Fix the deficit, start paying down the $14 trillion debt, or else see the credit rating of the United States downgraded.

The warning that Standards & Poors has issued is sobering and should light a fire under the congress and the president to get the United States' fiscal house in order. A downgrade in the credit rating of the U.S. government would mean that the federal government would have to pay higher interest rates to sell its debt. That in turn would widen the federal deficit that, if not addressed swiftly and ruthlessly, could result in further downgrades, more deficits, and thus a death spiral for the American economy.

History suggests that absent a solution there are just two scenarios at the end of the process.
One involves chaos and anarchy, which would not just be confined to the United States since the world economy is so interdependent. Mark Steyn, the author and media personality, once joked that it could get to be a Mad Max style scenario if something is not done.

The other scenario is dictatorship. If the institutions of democracy are unable to deal with the debt crisis, someone will step in and do it without the tools of democracy. A similar thing happened to the Roman Republic with the advent of the Caesars. It also happened to the Weimer Republic with the advent of Hitler.

Standards & Poors has thus done the country a great service. The deficit, for as long as can be remembered, has been a kind of abstraction, something politicians worried about or used to point fingers at one another. Standards & Poors now suggests it is about to have real world consequences, which will be bad beyond imagining.”
Today, our leaders should not be allowed to escape their responsibility and should be held accountable for the loss of our wealth and our country’s lowered financial standing.

The shot of freedom that I am writing about has vanished from the American landscape of thought and conscience. When we tolerate a government and a class of people who think they have a claim on other people’s wealth, we then have forgotten what the “shot heard ‘round the world” meant to the continuing greatness of a country based on principal and the wealth of the founding fathers ideals.

Gregory C. Dildilian
Founder and Executive Director
Pinecone Conservatives

A footnote: One last question, do you think guys like Washington, Henry, Jefferson, and Revere would have stood for the antics of this president and the likes of guys like George Soros. I ask; where are these type of leaders - we need them today?