Tyranny of the Majority

Once we depart from the original understanding of the principles of the Constitution, the majority assumes absolute rule through their elected officials, who are more than happy to promise them anything in return for political power.  This absolute power combined with a lack of understanding and appreciation for the reason behind the separation of powers contained in the historic Constitution paves the road to tyranny by an all-powerful government with no protection of individual rights.  You may think this is all fine as long as the government is doing what you think is “fair” and “right” but what happens when that power falls into the hands of those who use that power counter to your interests and you have no longer have a Constitution to protect you?

Allocation of health care

If a chemical were discovered that gave lifetime  immunity to cancer (but would not treat existing cancer), and that chemical required huge amounts of raw material and processing costs and could only be produced in limited quantities, at a cost per individual treated of ten million dollars, who should receive the limited quantity of immunization and who should pay for it?

Government is our servant?

Ronald Reagan, in his second inaugural address, spoke about when the USA was “created two centuries ago when, for the first time in history, government, the people said, was not our master, it is our servant; its only power that which we the people allow it to have.  That system has never failed us, but, for a time, we failed the system. We asked things of government that government was not equipped to give. We yielded authority to the National Government that properly belonged to States or to local governments or to the people themselves.”  Think of how much further along we are today on that road to complete National Government control over our lives and property.

An interesting fact regarding mass killings

“With just a single exception, the attack in Tucson last year, every public shooting in the U.S. in which more than three people have been killed since at least 1950 has occurred in a place where citizens are not allowed to carry their own firearms. Had some citizens been armed, they might have been able to stop the killings before the police got to the scene. In the Newtown attack, it took police 20 minutes to arrive at the school after the first calls for help.”  JOHN R. LOTT JR. The Facts About Assault Weapons and Crime The Wall Street Journal January 18, 2013

Do elected officials defend the Constitution?

When he spoke of his presidential oath in his public letter to Albert G. Hodges, Abraham Lincoln said: "It was in the oath I took that I would, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States. I could not take the office without taking the oath. Nor was it my view that I might take an oath to get power, and break the oath in using that power."  Do our current Federal elected officials “preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution” or do they “take an oath to get power, and break the oath in using that power?" 

Do-Gooders

The voice of reason is so often drowned  out by the cries the of do-gooders who do not  think beyond their opinion of what is “right” or “fair” and do not think beyond the present moment and circumstances,  not understanding or thinking through the future implications of their demands.  Their demands generally consist of insisting on government coercion to impose their accepted way of behavior on others.

A Drop In The Bucket?

During the debate on the proposed 60 Billion dollar Sandy relief bill, it was said by many (both Congressional members and others) that this is only a drop in the bucket in the national budget.  Put on your thinking cap and realize that this would require taxing 6,000,000. households $10,000. each.  If that is a drop in the bucket, perhaps the bucket has gotten too big.