Just think!

Wednesday – July 27, 2011

Just think!

In July of 1775, Maryland issued currency depicting King George III trampling the Magna Carta. This one event in American History is but a footnote to the Revolution today. However, just think of what the symbolism was meant to depict. In those days the States issued their own currency and the States had their own laws. Maryland was concerned that the colonies were going to be taxed, because of the debt incurred by the King.

In July of 2011, 236 years later, we are still looking for the symbolism that depicts what this president has done and is now doing to the country. Just think 236 years ago there was a king, today we have a president who would like to be King. There is no difference between trampling the Magna Carta or the Constitution.

King George III misread the American population as this president, who would like to be King, is doing now.

Just think about all that this President, who would like to be King, has done to violate States rights and the Constitution with his healthcare bill and now denying a balanced budget amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Just think about the impact that this president, who would like to be King, will have on future generations of Americans, if this president, who would like to be King, has his way.

Future generations will be no different than the serfs and servants to the crown were 236 years ago. Just think about that!

Yesterday, I started the FORUM with some figures. It was the National debt figure. Yesterday the National debt yesterday was $14,539,336,700,785 today over 24 hours later, at the writing of this FORUM, it is $14,542,185,909,146. You can do the math on how much it has increased more than 24 hours later. The purpose of this exercise is to demonstrate just how much of your money this president, who would like to be King, is spending. Spending gives the politician power, it gives them clout and it gives them votes.

Just think about the right and the wrong of how this president’s policies have destroyed this economy. The president wants to punish those that work and create wealth and reward those that don’t work to create wealth.

I said two weeks ago that the Congress should pass a bill that only cuts and caps the spending. The president and the Senate could have been forced to sign it into law just on that principle. I also said that, following that bill, a separate bill which proposes a balanced budget amendment with nothing else attached to it should be passed in the Congress. After its passage, with over 68% of the people’s support, it would then be sent to the Senate and then the president to sign it into law. In today’s environment it would have been difficult to say no to a separate bill like a balanced budget amendment. Just think if that had happened. We would not be pressed against the wall today. Senate majority leader, Harry Reid (D), supported a balanced budget amendment in 1997. Senator Durbin (D) supported a balanced budget amendment in 1995. The list goes on. These senator’s words would come to haunt them today, if the Congress had pushed it. Just think two separate bills, two separate issues, two separate votes, which would be supported by the people, might have prevented the stalemate today. Just think about how this would have changed the minds of the S&P and Moody’s.

Just think of how the Republicans, who control 1/3 of the government, might have changed the structural problems of our budgeting and spending.

The president does not like those who disagree with his policy initiatives. The president, who would like to be King, would have been forced to change his ideology, because of the people’s wishes. The president, who would like to be king, could not have garnered the support from his party with an approach that was designed to force the issue and consequent passage of two bills that would have put the president’s policies on permanent hold.

Just think how the country would prosper, if the president’s policies were put on permanent hold.

Just think of what passing the right bill, for the right reasons, would mean for the country.

Thomas Jefferson said, in his first Inaugural address, on March 4, 1801: “A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government.”

Just think if someone early on had uttered these words in the debate over the debt today, what the out come of the debate could have been. Guess what someone just did!

Just think if our laws were written and better yet, if the thought behind them appealed to our higher senses, we would not have the moral deficit that created the immoral deficits that we face today.

Gregory C. Dildilian
Founder and Executive Director
Pinecone Conservatives

A footnote: Just think of the things that should be happening and the words that should be said and then ask why they haven’t been said!