The most to lose, did the least to prevent it happening.

In a speech, called A Time for Choosing, given by Ronald Reagan in 1965, he said that history will record that the people who had the most to lose did the least to prevent it happening. He further quoted from recent democratic speeches on the Great Society, "the Profit motive has become outmoded and must be replaced by the incentives of the welfare state or traditional system of individual freedom is incapable of solving the complex problems of the twentieth century." Mechanisms of the progressive agenda at the that time so closely paralleled the socialist and communist agendas that the people would not have been shocked to hear it called communism instead of progressivism or the Great Society. Reagan continued on to say that "Senator Fullbright has said at Stanford University that the 'Constitution is outmoded.' He refered to the president as our moral teacher and our leader. He says he is hobbled in task by the restriction imposed on him by this antiquated document. He must be 'freed' so that he can do for us, what he knows is best." All governmental authority comes from the Constitution of these United States and that a senator could demand that it be put aside so that he could do as he wished is an affront, much like what is happening in America today. President Reagan could have been talking about the politicians in power today. Ronald Reagan went on to state, "Sen. Clark of Pennsylvania defines Liberalism as meeting the material needs of the mass through the full power of the centralized government." The concept of redistribution of wealth is not a new concept in America. Ronald Reagan was speaking out against this concept and the manner in which the government was expanding. "But beyond that, the full power of the centralized government, this was the thing the founding father sought to minimize. They knew that governments don't control things. The government can't control the economy without controling people." I guess that Ronald Reagan could be described as the Face of the Tea Party movement that is in America today. His thought and beliefs proved themselves when he was in power, national debt reduced, federal goverment reduced and the a freer and happier nation. But where did we go wrong? Why didn't we save our country from the progessive agenda's that are controlling our lad today? I'll tell you why. Americans are a remarkable short-sighted people. we forget the lessons of our past and do not look to the future following the current political philosophies. We have had truly great men point the direction that we are heading out time and again, but we do not learn from them. We are indeed a people who had the most to lose and did the least to prevent it.

Who is to blame for our current trials?

People have often spoke of the concept that the current administration is to blame for all of our current troubles. Many people view it that way and I feel that the least I could do is to try to set the record staight. What we must fight is not the Republican or Democratic Parties but rather the ideology behind those parties. Some call it Progressivism, others call it Liberalism, but the fact of the matter is that it is socialism. To say that one party got us into this mess is to gloss over the significant contributions to the mess by the other party, and to say that this president or that one encouraged it, is downright foolishness.
My answer to the question is this. WE the PEOPLE are to blame. WE elected the officials in Washington, despite their socialist views. WE created this mess by voting for the Lesser of Two Evils. WE COMPROMISED every thing that WE believed in the name of consensus. WE asked for the Government to bail us out and to give us the desires of our hearts, after all, what is wrong with being able to get every thing we ever wanted from the government.
Gerald Ford once said "Any government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have."
Right now we are screaming about the government that has started to take our noticiable rights, but the crux of the issue is that by accepting the hand-outs from the federal government, since the New Deal, we have been giving them that power. We are to blame for the trials of our country

America's military might

The president of our country said that we were a major military power the other day, whether we want to be or not. I have a bit of a problem with that statement. The spin writers in D.C. say that it means that he does want to be dragged into every brush fire war, which is a sentiment that I share. I do not, however, believe it to be the statement that he made. I, having served in the military, have no problem with being a military powerhouse and I think that the United States should remain the big dog on the block, to defend our borders and our citizenry. I cannot believe that the Commander-in-Chief can be embarassed by the forces that he commands to protect the greatest nation on the planet, the Republic of the United States of America. How could we the people have given the charge of leading our military to a man who doesn't think that America should be number one, and doesn't like having the best military force in the world to back that claim. The United States was to be the shinning city on the hill, and it must have the best military in the world to keep is safe. This was wholly unacceptable and inappropriate from the president, who should issue an apology to the military and a retraction. The president owes the people of this land an apology as well for not believing in America one hundred and ten percent. If he cannot believe in this country and what it stands for, President Obama should resign the office and give it to someone who does.

Constitutionalism, Liberalism, and Socialism

True conservatism in America is actually Constitutionalism, which belongs to neither the Republican or Democratic Parties, who are neither following the Constitution or the beliefs of the Founding Fathers. It is a set of ideals that are based on the Constitution of the United States and the works of the Founding Fathers, such as Thomas Paine, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, the Federalist and Anti-Federalist papers. In the United States, we have turned away from the Constitution and the Founders intent. We must turn back our politicians and the beauracratic machine in Washington, forcing them to follow the laws and restrictions set for them by the Constitution. I know that this is not generally considered to be fashionable in the world today. But the United States was meant to be the city set on the Hill to show the world what true government should be. We turned away from it in order to become fashionable like Europe, with Socialism and Communism. We fought a war in Europe to end National Socialism, and a cold war with Russia over Communism, yet while we fought those wars we permitted it a foothold in America in our government. Government is notorious for false promises, but we bought this promise, hook ,line and sinker, "if you give me your right and freedoms I promise that I will let you have half of them back. Remember that all this is for the security of the nation, so you can actually have your freedoms." It is like giving all your money to the mob for protection against the other mob, with the hope that the first mafia would let you have you money back. We have become like Tiny Tim, during Tax season, "Please, sir, could I have a little more," and the federal government, more and more, is saying "No, and I am keeping a little more for your audacity in asking this favor." It was our Money to begin with, and we need to be like our Founders and say "No more, this far and no further," despite the fact that this philosophy is not popular at the moment. Thomas Paine said this in the Introduction to Common Sense, "Perhaps the sentiments in the following pages, are not sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor, a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises formidible outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason." This can be seen from both sides, both the socialist side and the constitutionalist side.
First, the socialist side will see this as meaning that because they pulled one over on the population of America, and the outcry is in defense of custom, but it doesn't matter, that tumult will subside and time will let them continue on the path that they established.
Second, the constitutionalist side sees it like this. The people have not seen these kinds of things as wrong for so long that it had the superficial concept of being right, but because the government, so blatant, performed as it has recently in dirrect opposition of the will of the people, there is a outcry against the fashionable socialism shown by the government. Though their opinions have not been proved as generally fashionable, but so long as the tumult doesn't subside, time will give them the converts rather than the federal government.
Like I said I am a Constitutionalist and I believe that it is the responsibilty of the American people to continue to stir the pot of public opinion and learn our true form of government and exercise our rights as the biggest check and balance of the federal government. The Preamble to the Constitution starts with the words "We the People of the United States" showing where the authority of the federal government comes from. To many of us have not learned what our government systems are and that we need to watch the politicians and ensure that they follow our will and our Constitution, and deny them the authority to follow socialist policies that have gotten our country in the trouble that is has gotten into.
Now, I must explain why I call the progressive liberalism in the government, Socialism and Communism, so let me give you a quote from Norman Thomson, a well known American Socialist, "The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism. But under the name of 'liberalism' they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist program, until one day America will be a Socialist nation, without knowing how it happened." We are now waking up, and looking around seeing that our country is a Socialist nation, and we do not have a clue how it happened. President Obama is not the beginning of the Socialist era of our government, he is just the latests in a long line of Socialistic program pushers. The Socialist Party of America didn't even have a candidate for President the last election, because Obama was the most openly Socialist candidate out there. This is why I call Progressive liberalism Socialism and will continue to do so as well.
Brutus

A letter to the People of the United States of America;

To introduce myself and my philosophy, I must admit that I am a constitutionalist. I am not a conservative or a republican, and most definitely not a liberal or democrat. Norman Thomson, a noted American Socialist once said that "The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism, but under the name of Liberalism, they will adopt every fragment until one day America will be a socialist nation without ever knowing how it happened." We are turning into that socialist nation, now. According to President Obama, we needed to change, but most Americans, those who voted for him, and those that opposed didn't ask what that change was. The socialist party here in America, when asked who their candidate for president was, they said they didn't have because Obama was enough of a socialist that they didn't need one. Apparently, the socialist party of America did their research, but the general population didn't. There is a major outcry now due to his policies, but had there been some research into his past, we would not have elected him president. President Obama is not the first of the socialist agenda pushers in the United States, but, rather, he is just the latest in a long line of them.
Progressivism is nothing more than refined socialism and communism. The concept of redistribution of wealth in America is almost one hundred years old, with President Woodrow Wilson, which is straight out of the communist manifesto and the works of socialist author Freidrick Neitsche.

Brutus