A business partner of mine once commented to me many years ago that a manager who has a problem, but has identified the fact that he does indeed have a problem will ultimately do just fine. It is the manager who has a problem but is not even aware of the fact that he has a problem who is in trouble.

I think that virtually everyone in America knows that we have problems. What amazes me is just how complicated our politicians make it sound. I often wonder if they really believe what they try to tell the public or if they just seek to confuse and confound.

Our economy is a mess. Our country is a mess. Our leadership in Washington has lost it's collective mind. Our problems have become international problems. We have entered into a downward spiral which is speeding out of control. This is going to have to stop.  Either we in this country unite to make a difference while we can or it will be forced upon this country, perhaps violently, or our constitutional republic is headed for a total collapse.

There was a time in this country that people wanted individual freedom, a voice in the government, freedom to live and let live. They wanted opportunity. They were fed up with taxes and no representation. They rebelled against  overbearing  authority and accepted the fact that if they were to have the freedoms they so desperately wanted that they would have to hack a living out of the wilderness and stand on their own two feet.

Those Americans took the responsibility for their lives and their welfare upon their own backs and built a mighty country out of little more than courage and the opportunity to do so.

There was a time in America when neighbors helped neighbors. There was a time in America when we helped one another whether it was in finding work or helping the hungry.

Times have changed. What happened? I suggest to you that the moment the government stepped in and started taking the responsibility for the jobless and the hungry, the single moms, and the downtrodden that a number of things were set into motion that have worked to undo the moral fiber of the country and set about creating it's financial demise.

Once government started the handouts people quit helping people. We destroyed the motivation of many to work, succeed, produce, or become productive members of society. We set up more government agencies and bureaucracies. We undermined the incentives to achieve and produce.

This is always a mistake. The natural tendency of government is to grow and expand. Governments never shrink voluntarily. They get bigger and bigger and bigger. They get less and less effective, less and less efficient, less and less in touch with the people and the pulse of the nation.

When you start handouts the demand will never decrease voluntarily either. The needs and demands just grow and grow and grow and the expectations and perceived entitlements grow and grow and grow.

With these programs in place we set up an expanding and inefficient foundation for future government and all the expense that entails. At the same time we set into motion a growing demand upon the resources to be spent on an ever expanding army of those in need.

We in this country have asked more and more of the federal government for decades and all the while knowing that the federal government is the poorest excuse of a  manager any of us have ever seen. Can we actually be so shocked that they have squandered trillions of dollars and on programs that work marginally if at all.

The cries for more and more government intervention into our day to day lives have increased costs far beyond reality. Sooner or later everyone must realize that no matter how good or honorable a program may seem, we, you, I , the government, the international community....cannot afford to do it all. 

The costs have broken the bank. We have mortgaged our country to foreign governments. I wonder just how many federal decisions involving American interests will be compromised when the Chinese threaten to call the notes behind the scenes unless we bend to their whims?

We have paid a price for all this not just in dollars but in eroding freedoms. We are losing them at a faster and faster rate every year. We have created a society with an entitlement mentality, destroyed any sense of individual responsibility, and created a society that seems to feel they were born with an inherent right to be protected from any and all harm.

When the constitution was presented to the people for approval Alexander Hamilton wrote in the Federalist Papers " It has been remarked that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important question, whether societies of men are really capable or not of establishing good government from reflection and choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend for their political constitutions on ACCIDENT and FORCE."

He went on to say that if the people of the United States failed in this mission, it would operate to " the general misfortune of mankind"

John Adams said "if the people abandoned the freedom gained by the adoption of the constitution, it would be treason against the hopes of the world."

Our founders set up a constitution based not on the signs of the times or the temptations of the authors of the day, but based upon the nature of man and the historical nature of governments. It was, by design, not intended to be a living document as so many academics now attempt to claim. It was not intended for loose interpretations according to the whims of man, rather it was intended to restrain the whims of man and of government. It was to create a nation of LAWS not a government of MAN.

In my lifetime I have seen the nature of man. Over many years of training store managers I found one thing that the vast majority of new managers were guilty of. I taught them what worked. I taught them how to run a successful business. I taught them how to make a profit and what was required.

In nearly every case when they were turned loose to run the store they came up with different ideas and tried to re-invent the wheel. Instead of sticking to a proven plan for success they thought they knew a better way. In EVERY such case they failed. They failed to make a profit. They failed to succeed. They failed the company. They had to be replaced.

I suggest that over time, the representatives in Washington, the academics in the universities, the people we have sent to represent us have tried to re-invent the wheel and have failed miserably. Such is the nature of man.

For over 125 years we enjoyed more freedoms, out produced...many times over...every country on earth, enjoyed more prosperity and a far higher standard of living, had the fewest number of people in poverty, invented and created technology, medical cures, and innovations the likes of which the world had never before seen. But we had to question a system that was not broken. Our government and our academics thought they could do better. They believed our system was flawed. They have tried to re-invent the wheel.

I submit to you that if you look at the accomplishments in this country during our first 150 years that you will see that no country before had ever accomplished so much and that since we have allowed them to fix what was never broken we have slowly become the largest debtor nation in the world, our society has deteriorated, our government is now out of control, we no longer find medical cures, the poor have gotten poorer, our freedoms have diminished. And we are told that this is progress.

Our founders believed that the biggest danger to our constitution was whether or not our society could remain virtuous enough and moral enough to maintain it.

We have been guilty of expecting to much of government. There is no free lunch. We have been too apathetic, too inattentive, too complacent, and too trusting of government.

Our founders knew the dangers. They understood that government could not be trusted. They understood that government could not provide for the people. They understood that the price of debt was servitude and the loss of freedom. They set up the constitution to restrain government and prevent what we have allowed.

It was the freedom of people, the freedom of enterprise, and the restraint of debt that allowed our nation to prosper. I am sickened every time I hear someone say that capitalism is a failed system. Capitalism and free enterprise didn't fail. It has been the intervention and regulation of excessive government and the imposition upon freedoms of states, individuals, and business alike that have failed our country. It is the failure to follow the constitution and abide by the restraints put in place that has corrupted our government and our country.

It is time to pay attention. It is time to restore the constitutional restraints on government and restore the freedom of the people, the states, and the business community. It will not happen until we, the people, rise up and take charge. We have to go back to the basics and get the federal government back to what was intended. Either we get busy and do this or we fail not just our children, our grand children, our posterity, but the entire world. For if we fail to prove freedom works there will be none.


I would like to recommend a new Book that has just been released. The title is "America For Sale", by Jerome R. Corsi PH.D. Dr. Corsi has come to the same conclusion regarding the course of our country to which my research has led me. If you care about our country and our national sovereignty, I highly recommend that you read this book.