More, with less:

Friday – June 24, 2011

More, with less:

This week, I feel I have reached a personal turning point. It will be two years that I have been writing about political thought and political action.

I am now getting ready to go to the next level. The last two years have been a learning experience for me. I have read about our history as a nation in ways that I never had before. I have learned about many historical events and many of the small stories that have lead to the great things that our country stands for.

My views are based on what the forefathers intended this nation to be. My views are far from the liberal view of making everything and everybody equal across the board. In other words, we must do more with less. The view of the conservative is the view that the nation’s greatest leaders had. It is a vision of unlimited opportunity and unbridled restraint. It is the view that each American has the opportunity to own property and through the ownership of that property they will prosper.

Property, in this case, is not just an address on Main Street. Property is freedom of thought, freedom of developing great ideas, freedom to explore, freedom to become what you want. For example, freedom is to engage in commerce, law and medicine. Freedom is, to some, building the biggest bridge or building the best mouse trap. With liberty, our freedom is enhanced, because liberty enables an individual to look beyond that next mountain peak and to expand beyond the limits that nature and now government has put on us.

Liberty and freedom is having faith in your God and faith in family and all that is great. America has spawned great dynasties. However, America’s greatest dynasty is made possible because of the millions of families that will go out and celebrate the birth of our Independence next week.

Our struggle has not been one that was started three years ago or at the turn of the century. It started with three boats with the wind of freedom in their sails that crossed an unexplored ocean in search of liberty. It started with a compact of laws that ultimately became a Declaration of Independence and a Constitution. These events all started with a single idea that all men are created equal and all men have equal opportunity, but opportunity should not guarantee equal results. This is the difference of thought between the liberal and the conservative.

Our nation is at a turning point. We can decide to make it greater or we can decide to make it like every other nation that has gone by the way side of shared prosperity through legislation and redistribution. We can listen to the wordsmiths, through the voice of leaders who would sacrifice our liberty for security. It was Benjamin Franklin who said that, if you do that, you deserve neither.

We can decide to listen to the words of a patriot who knew what liberty and death was or take that midnight ride that ultimately decided what the sacrifices would be to have the bell of liberty ring for the first time in the history of the world. We should recruit leaders who cannot tell a lie and who, through a few words, can sum up the struggle of a nation in Civil War. The words: “we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground”, should be words that are taught instead of discarded as false notions.

As a nation, we should come together and demand that our leaders solve the economic abyss that they have placed us in. We should demand that a president lead by example, instead of leading through executive order that favors the political winds of the day.

History can tell the story of a people and a nation. It can give direction when direction is needed. It can tell the story of sorrow and of great joy. It can take the listener to the highest level of understanding and it can also remind the listener of its darkest moments.

When I say I have reached a turning point, I say it through the recognition of the lessons of history and I can say it, because I have recognized what the great men of history recognized. Our freedom and our liberty is fragile. It cannot be passed down through the blood line of heredity. It is something that must be taught, it is something that must be preserved and it is something that should not be altered by those who can bend and twist it so that the masses become comfortable with the easy way instead of the enterprising way.

“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.” Ronald Reagan

After two years I am not stopping. I am just beginning!
Gregory C. Dildilian
Founder and Executive Director
Pinecone Conservatives
www.pineconeconservatives.org

A footnote: Free enterprise was the vision. Freedom and liberty was the result of the enterprising minds that made it possible for a revolution to occur because of the freedom that was born out of the minds of the great, the free and the honored.
To do more with less is unacceptable to this American