When is the Time?
Discussing politics is a common area of verbal discourse for myself. I come across a wide variety of people with many different thoughts on the role of government in the daily lives of its citizens. Recent discussions have been on my choice for President, Senators, and Congressmen and subsequent scorn I have received for standing on the principles set out by the founding fathers. I was scorned for wanting to hold my leaders accountable for their actions. Apparently now is not the time for accountability from what I was told. Instead I have to vote for one man because of fear of the other when both options are equally atrocious.
So...when is the time for accountability?
Our political leaders have voted on a disastrous bailout plan putting the American taxpayer at greater risk than we were in before. We are told for the greater need for more social programs at the burden of others (another term for this is THEFT). We are told that the reason for taxation is not to run the basic operations of government: the administration of justice, the pursuit of a common defense, or the protection of Liberty, but instead for "fairness."
The harder we work, the more we are penalized for the benefit of others who choose to leech off the lifeblood of others. The more insecurity that comes against us in this world, the more civil liberties the US government takes from us in the name of our own security. Ben Franklin stated it best that "those who would give up essential Liberty for a little temporary Safety deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." When we complain that taxes are too high we are told we are not patriotic enough, too greedy, or that we are not doing our part to take care of the "less fortunate." Perhaps it is the reverse as Thomas Jefferson, architect of the Declaration of Independence and one of the principle minds of the US Constitution, who stated that "
[t]o compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical."
When is the time to hold our leaders accountable to the Constitution? When will Americans learn that a vote out of fear for the alternative is a net negative for our country, not a net positive? When will Americans realize that we are being destroyed not by external sources but by our own selfishness as Abraham Lincoln correctly predicted an Alexander Tytler wrote about? When will Americans head the advice of our founding fathers to not rely on government? When will Americans remember our origins and our struggle for Liberty against the tyranny of government?
When is the time for accountability?
