It's time!

Friday – July 29, 2011

It’s time!

Time is relative. Time goes by fast and time can delay the inevitable.

I don’t worry about time being relative or even time going by fast, but what I do mind is when time is used to delay the inevitable. Time has been used to get a bad debt bill that originated from a good debt bill in order to stop a worse debt bill. As a result, both debt bills sponsored by the Speaker and the Senate
are just not enough. Both have come short in saving our economic liberty, our economic freedom and our economic independence. But then again, that’s the great compromise that we are forced to accept, because of a president who has sunk the world’s greatest economy!

The president still says he will veto a bill, if the debt ceiling is not raised enough to get him through the next election. The president is now using time for his own benefit. The president has wasted time and the president has squandered his time, because through this process he still has no plan!

After all is said and done, there will probably be a combination of the Boehner bill and a Reid bill. The president will have to sign the compromise just to settle the dust that has been raised by his lack of leadership and his innate ability to waste the people’s time while playing the politics for the sake of the people.

In one month the government issues over 211 million checks to individuals. This covers Medicare, Social Security, Food Stamps, Disability SSI, and checks for Active & Retired Defense Personnel. I wrote something two weeks ago that really put a perspective on what time and government can do to rob our wealth. What I wrote was in 69 out of the last 80 years the government spent more money than it took in.

In all the time that has been spent over the debt crisis in rebuttal efforts by both parties and in posturing by the president we still haven’t addressed a solution to the spending problem. I wrote about what a solution is versus a deal in Yesterdays FORUM. In all the time that has been spent in this month of July our National debt has risen, some 211 million checks have once again been written, the nations wealth has not increased, our dollar has decreased in its stature and in its trust. Our GDP is also at an all time low 1.8%. This has all happened in the time the President has been in office.

I view the month of July, all 744 hours of it, as Liberty time. I view the month of July as a time when our forefathers decided on a course and acted on that decision. I view the 744 hours that are always in the month of July as a time to review how our liberty our independence and our freedom came to be.

I view what has happened in the 696 hours so far in this month of July as how much liberty and Independence we have lost because of those who want to decide on just how much liberty, independence and freedom we deserve and are now allowed to have. Time does strange things when you start to account for it.


235 years ago John Adams wrote, in a letter to Abigail Adams, in July of 1776: “The second day of July, will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward forevermore.” We started this month with a bit more of the liberty, freedom and Independence that Adams wanted to celebrate forevermore. But as the month is closing we are being told that August 2, is the day of financial Armageddon if a debt deal isn’t done. You notice no one in Washington is using the word solution.

224 years ago James Madison wrote, in the Federalist Papers, No.14, on November 30, 1787: “They accomplished a revolution which has no parallel in the annals of human society. They reared the fabrics of governments which have no model on the face of the globe. They formed the design of a great Confederacy, which it is incumbent on their successors to improve and perpetuate.” I believe in these words and I believe that when a government spends more than it takes in to perpetuate a model opposite of what Madison intended, we have not perpetuated and improved upon the model the revolution was fought over.

223 years ago James Madison said, in an address to the Virginia Convention in June of 1788: “I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.” If you take this quote at face value and consider that it took 223 years to accomplish what Madison warned against, then I guess our time has been used very well.

In 1834, Madison also wrote, in “Advice to My Country”: The advice nearest to my heart and deepest in my convictions is that the Union of the States be cherished and perpetuated.” Today, I cannot think of one leader that holds this thought in mind when a vote as critical as the debt debate is being tallied for political, ideological and personal victory. This, unfortunately, is more dangerous than the foreign enemies of our country represents.

It’s time to consider what Ronald Reagan quoted, in The Political Chameleon, by Edmund G. Brown: “One thing our Founding Fathers could not foresee-they were farmers, professional men, businessmen giving of their time and effort to an idea that became a country-was a nation governed by professional politicians who had a vested interest in getting re-elected. They probably envisioned a fellow serving a couple of hitches and then looking early to getting back to the farm.”

For the sake of our liberty, it’s time to do the people’s work, by people who come from the ranks of the people. You can quote me on that!

Gregory C. Dildilian
Founder and Executive Director
Pinecone Conservatives

A footnote: It’s time!