The first Tuesday in November we have elections all around the country. Much of the consternation about the direction of the country achieves a high point frenzy tends to happen within the last few months of the elections, especially when the country is voting for a President.
And the day after the election, egos are bruised; some are angry; some are hung over and some threaten “wait until 2024…”
If you are like this, or should you have the position that “elections have consequences” before you get back to your son’s baseball game or your daughter’s ballet performance, you are the problem.
You aren’t alone in this. In fact, I would argue that most Americans, myself included (at times) are apathetic to the whole political process between elections. This says a lot about our priorities.
We say we love our kids and want the best for them, yet continue to support the local public school system after the board of education embraces CRT or teaching transgenderism. These are two examples and these two examples may not upset you, but they are just two examples of a host of problems within our public schools.
Let’s move on as THIS post is not a rant our public schools.
My rant is about your apathy. Your disinterest. Your stating ”I love my children” or grandchildren and will go out of their way to ensure their education, college experience, and life are better than yours was.
I would like to challenge you. Yes, challenge you. While you say “I love my kids” yet turn a blind eye to their education, to the decisions made at a local, state or federal level which will affect their lives for decades, is this love?
Yeah, yeah. I know.
HOW DARE YOU as you try to impersonate Greta Thunberg.
But I’m challenging you for YOUR good, their good and the country’s good.
Should you take the time to visit your school board member’s personally; sit down with your Representative or Senator at both the state and federal level or a beer or a steak (I’ve been inviting Rob Portman, who lives within 15 minutes of me (and we drove past his house DAILY for years)) and casually, respectfully, logically, CONSTITUTIONALLY challenge them on their thoughts.
John Kasich was in my dad’s house many times during the 1970s and 1980s. He was there to solicit campaign funds while Dad met with him to challenge him to stay true to the Constitution (he hasn’t). His predissesor , Samuel Devine had a similar relationship with Dad.
While your elected representatives are seeking money, hold them to proving they are deserving of the money. I didn’t say their party is deserving of money. I am saying specific individuals are deserving of your money.
Because they follow the Constitution.
How do you hold them to following the Constitution? You write letters. You ask to meet with them in their office. You show up with truth and understanding of the Constitution as your stance.
But you’re only one person. I know.
What if you teamed with dozens of others in the same district? And you all had one agenda – follow the Constitution.
I keep harping on this point – follow the Constitution. Why? Because following the Constitution will result in fixing the country in every way. Allow me to show you a one way.
Only Gold and Silver is allowed for spending. This would reign in the Federal government’s spending on most things as they would not have the money. And should they ‘manufacture’ money (like they do through the private Federal Reserve bank), there may very well be a run on the Fed.
What would people turn to without the Fed? Their state’s gold and silver money, which every state is allowed to mint per the Constitution.
But we wouldn’t have money to spend in all the ways the Federal government spends money, from education to health care to welfare. History doesn’t bear this out as Ben Franklin, while living in England during the 1760s, noted the poor were given enough to live in idleness.
Considering the last count I heard was 100 million Americans have determined that work interferes with their lifestyle, so they’ve decided to stop working. It sounds as if America has the same problems with their ‘poor’ as England did in the 1760s.
In contrast, America helped the poor but not to the extent that should they be able-bodied, they could not live off the help provided. They had to work.
Franklin observed the same throughout his overseas travels. In countries where the poor were provided enough to live idly, there were more poor. Conversely, in other nations, when the poor were provided little, the poor worked themselves out of poverty.
A good example of this were my grandparents. After learning how little their annual wages were while living and working on the family farm, they decided to open their own store. My great aunts and uncles believed they would be back shortly as they would go bankrupt.
Within 5 years, many of these great aunts and uncles had their own businesses as well.
My grandparents continued to work their store and purchase rental properties with the profits. By the time they retired, they owned 20-25 properties. This provided a sufficient income for them to live comfortably even in their retirement years.
There is nothing keeping today’s Americans from achieving the same ‘dream’ without government loans, grants and kickbacks.
In closing, gold and silver would also keep inflation at bay, as it is difficult to inflate the value of an ounce of gold or silver (although the Romans did it by mixing their gold and silver with cheaper metals).
In conclusion, the Constitution is the answer for one reason. The Founding Fathers took their time, studying 5000 years of history, in order to determine the government which would provide the greatest amount of freedom to the individual.
“A Republic” as Mr. Franklin said, “if you can keep it.”
