Makers and takers:

Tuesday – April 5, 2011 Makers and takers: When we look at our history, this country has always done better and succeeded more when we made history and when we were allowed to make a destiny for ourselves. Makers don’t use the word transform, but takers do. Makers don’t use the word fundamental, but takers do. Makers don’t say that Corporations are evil and then take big donations from them, only to find a place on some other board, takers do. Makers don’t take liberty away from you and call it a realistic approach to healthcare, takers do. Makers don’t pass a law and then say we will have to wait and see what’s in it, takers do. The President formally launched his bid for re-election. Some say he could be the first billion dollar president. A candidate that wants to make liberty and freedom the objective doesn’t have to announce his bid early to insure fund raising starts early, takers do. Makers don’t make every speech a campaign speech, takers do. Today, the Republicans make history with the federal budget that will be introduced. The Republicans will make history with the cuts they are recommending. The Democrats will demonize these cuts with the old clichés that have robbed us of our wealth and taken away our liberties and our posterity’s freedom. Makers make things. Takers take things. The bail out was not meant for us, because we are now bailing out the government. Makers ensure growth - takers take growth away. Makers will reduce spending by four trillion dollars over ten years. Takers will increase federal spending by 3.5 trillion in less than two years. Takers will hide 2 billion dollars in a healthcare plan that was passed in the darkness of night so that companies like, AT&T, Verizon, GE, GM will get a pass on paying for their retires healthcare. Makers will create a healthcare plan that is competitive, because it is driven by the market and not by government mandate. Makers will create jobs and want jobs that provide opportunity. Takers will want the security that a government job offers. There are nearly six public sector jobs to every one manufacturer’s job today in the private sector. Makers make products to inspire growth in commerce. Takers will regulate commerce to insure taxes on commerce are levied. Makers will create a system of government that provides freedom and liberty via a Constitution. Takers will work around the Constitution that they are sworn to protect and defend only to ensure a voting block is able to take from those who created and want to make a constitutionally limited republic thrive. Makers will run for office on the principles of tradition and values, takers will tell you that those values are outdated and only work for the very wealthy. Takers will take money from those they demonize so that a progressive liberal agenda will ensure wealth for the have knots s and provide security for generation’s of the have knots. On today’s date, in 1792, President George Washington cast the first Presidential veto. The bill introduced a new plan for dividing seats in the House of Representatives that would have increased the amount of seats for northern states. After consulting with his politically divided and contentious cabinet, Washington, who came from the southern State of Virginia, ultimately decided that the plan was unconstitutional, because in providing for additional representatives for some states, it would have introduced a number of representatives higher than that proscribed by the Constitution. After a discussion with the President, Jefferson wrote in a letter that votes for or against the bill was divided along geographical lines between the North and South. Jefferson observed that Washington feared that a veto would incorrectly portray him as biased toward the South. In the end, Jefferson was able to convince the president to veto the bill on the grounds that it was unconstitutional and introduced principles that were liable to be abused in the future. Jefferson suggested apportionment instead be “derived from arithmetical operation, about which no two men can ever possibly differ." Washington's veto sent the bill back to Congress. Though representatives could have attempted to overrule the veto with a two-thirds vote, Congress instead threw out the original bill and instituted a new one that apportioned representatives at "the ratio of one for every thirty-three thousand persons in the respective States." Washington exercised his veto power only one other time during his two terms in office. In February 1797, the former commanding general of the Continental Army vetoed an act that would have reduced the number of cavalry units in the army. Washington and Jefferson were maker’s, because they didn’t want to abuse the principles that made our freedom. If the veto didn’t occur, many of the freedoms we enjoy today might have been taken away because of disproportionate representation. A taker would have made the decision, because of a biased view. Through out our history, each president has made decisions that were viewed as good by some and bad by others. As it is today and as it was in Washington’s time, politics is still a primary motivator. The difference is that today we have far more takers than we have makers. The presidential field has not been filled. Obama is a taker and he will be that way for the rest of his life. It is in his blood and the system we have will provide for his retirement for many years. Let’s try to nominate someone who will make a difference by providing the means for us to make instead of providing the means for some to continue to take. Gregory C. Dildilian Founder and Executive Director Pinecone Conservatives A footnote: Does a taker deserve the support of free people or does a maker garner the support of a free nation this is the choice that will confront us over the next 20 months.