If only the founding fathers had the foresight to say something against Barack Hussein Obama and all the other liberal democrats who are destroying America today. Oh wait! They did say something. The Founding Fathers ‘warned against a number of temptations which might lure subsequent generations to abandon their freedoms, and their rights by subjecting themselves to a strong federal administration operating on the collectivist Left. They warned against the “welfare state” where the government endeavors to take care of everyone from the cradle to the grave. ‘
‘They warned against confiscatory taxation (confiscating or stealing privately owned property and/or money from the rich and redistributing to the poor) and deficit spending (spending more than we have). Jefferson said it was immoral for one generation to pass on the results of its extravagance in the form of debts to the next generation. He wrote: “… we shall all consider ourselves unauthorized to saddle posterity with our debts, and morally bound to pay them ourselves; and consequently within what may be deemed the period of a generation, or the life [expectancy] of the majority.” (Bergh, Writings of Thomas Jefferson, 13:358)’
The Founding Fathers ‘also warned that the only way for the nation to prosper was to have equal protection of “rights,” (not murdering the unborn, or discriminating against someone either positively with quotas or negatively because of skin color) and not allow the government to get involved in trying to provide equal distribution of “things.” (i.e. Socialism or Fascism, which we are seeing today right here in America!)’
‘Samuel Adams said they had done everything possible to make the ideas of socialism and communism unconstitutional. Said he:
The Utopian schemes of leveling [re-distribution of the wealth] and a community of goods [central ownership of the means of production and distribution], are as visionary and impractical as those which vest all property in the Crown. [These ideas] are arbitrary (choices and actions which are done not by means of any underlying principle or logic), despotic (ruling with absolute political power), and, in our government, unconstitutional. (William V. Wells, The Life and Public Services of Samuel Adams, 3 vols. [Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1865], 1:154.)’
So how can we prevent such things from happening in 2009 and beyond? Education. Our Founding Fathers believed in the important need to ‘develop and maintain an informed electorate. Jefferson hammered home the necessity for an educated electorate on numerous occasions. Here are some samples:
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization it expects what never was and never will be. (Ford, Writings of Thomas Jefferson, 10:4.)
No other sure foundation can be devised for the preservation of freedom and happiness. . . . Preach . . . a crusade against ignorance; establish and improve the law for educating the common people. Let our countrymen know that the people alone can protect us against these evils [of misgovernment]. (Bergh, Writings of Thomas Jefferson, 5:396-97)’
What the Founding Fathers ‘really wanted was a system of educational communication through which they could transfer their great body of fundamental beliefs based on self-evident truths. They knew they had made a great discovery, and they wanted their posterity to maintain it. As Madison said, it is something which “it is incumbent on their successors to improve and perpetuate.” (Federalist Papers, No. 14. P. 105)
So what can we do? Educate ourselves, our children, our grandchildren, our neighbors, our friends, and anyone else who will listen. Learn and apply sound Logic, read accurate history, and listen to fair and balanced news (Fox News). Find news programs (such as Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, Laura Ingraham, and others) that provide documentation, and not merely emotions, to back their claims.
And remember that we surround them.
Italics, boldfacing and underlining are my own.
Source: Skousen, W. Cleon, “The 5000 Year Leap: The 28 Great Ideas That Changed the World”, (National Center for Constitutional Studies, http://www.nccs.net, 1981, pages 29-31)
