Another way to look at it!

Tuesday – June 28, 2011

Another way to look at it!

No doubt the Fourth of July is a great time to celebrate. It’s a great time to eat and it’s a great time to reflect.

I am not going to remind anyone about the history that was made on this date, in 1778. I won’t remind you of Mary Ludwig Hayes "Molly Pitcher", who aided the American patriots in war, or about the Battle of Monmouth, New Jersey, when General Washington defeated Clinton. These events occurred, because a few years earlier a Declaration of Independence was written and was submitted to King George III. I don’t want to remind you that King George scoffed at the idea of the rebel colonials taking up arms to fight the greatest Army on earth. I don’t have to remind you of the outcome.

I am not going to remind you that in May of 1776, after nearly a year of trying to resolve their differences with England, the colonists sent delegates to the Second Continental Congress. Finally, in June, admitting that their efforts were hopeless; a committee was formed to compose the formal Declaration of Independence. Headed by Thomas Jefferson, the committee also included, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Phillip Livingston and Roger Sherman. I am not going to remind you that on today’s date in 1776 Thomas Jefferson presented the first draft of the Declaration to Congress.

I want to ask you to consider another way of looking at how these historical events changed the world and changed the direction of the colonial states. The direction after all the battles and after all the arguments and all the treaties was simple. The forefathers wanted to create a country that was strong morally and that was strong financially. They believed that you could not have one with out the other.

They created an environment where the common person could own property and could save their riches for themselves and their posterity. Somewhere along the way, however, after two hundred and thirty five years, the country began to move in a direction that would rob the nation’s wealth and diminish the freedom that was born out of rebellion, revolt and the fight that would bring the dream of Independence to a focused reality.

The first celebration for Independence Day was held in 1796. It was met with patriotism and the gratefulness of the nation’s citizens for the government they got in return for the sacrifices they endured.

This Fourth of July, consider looking at this day in another way. As we approach the weekend and all it festivities, consider looking for and developing leaders that are fiscally responsible. With a huge debt and the loss of the nations wealth the words independence, liberty and freedom just become a memory of finer days lost. The words of independence, liberty and freedom reflect the essence of the founding days of the nation.

The country, then, was not concerned about social justice, social liberalism and all that follows the liberal’s view of what independence, liberty and freedom means. Instead of listening to the candidates go on about social liberalism force them to talk about fiscal responsibility and fiscal conservatism.

I began looking at this perspective just recently and it has opened my eyes to what the true essence of independence, liberty and freedom is. Independence, liberty and freedom does not automatically come with a government check or a bloated bureaucracy. Independence, liberty and freedom does not come when a government purposefully makes decisions about social programs that are designed to keep votes and expand a voting block. Independence, liberty and freedom does not come when government offers tax payer funds to aid in abortions and to promote a way of life for those who think social justice has come their way.

Independence, liberty and freedom does not come when your government spends more than it takes in. Independence, liberty and freedom does not come when the heads of your government raise the debt ceiling so that they can borrow more and say that it is to benefit those who get the benefits.

Independence, liberty and freedom comes when leaders are elected to do one thing and that is to balance the budget and approach spending honestly and without favor. More importantly it comes when the country becomes strong because people will find out very quickly just what they have missed out on. They will find ways to grow and to assemble wealth beyond what the meager government check provided.

Independence, liberty and freedom will come when a structural problem with the debt is resolved and when the environment exists so that job creators can create jobs because they need employees. Independence, liberty and freedom comes when an employee figures out they can take all they learned from a job and start a business themselves so that they can hire people to work for them.

Independence, liberty and freedom comes when our leaders become focused on growing the thought of fiscal conservatism. When this happens social liberalism will then become a thing of the past and will not drain the wealth of a nation that was created to provide the opportunity to attain wealth and grow from the independence that enterprising minds would create.

This Fourth of July, think of this notion and then consider a way to make it work.

Gregory C. Dildilian
Founder and Executive Director
Pinecone Conservatives

www.pineconeconservatives.org


A footnote: It becomes necessary to look at things in another way to see your way clear of the problems that you face. The nation’s debt is not the government’s problem it becomes yours because it’s your independence!