If the immigration bill passes in its present form, kiss your freedom goodbye. I know I must be a nut. I don’t have any idea what I’m talking about. Well, as long as I retain the freedom to be a nut then every thing is right with the world. However, consider this.
Our Founding Fathers, in their wisdom created a Republic with limited government power. They named it “The Republic of the United States of America”. However, a very sad thing happened on the way to liberty. Our Republic was taken away and replaced with a Democracy with a government which decides for itself the extent of its limits. The difference between a Republic and a Democracy is subtle, but severe. In the original Republic, states had rights. The state legislatures appointed Federal legislators to one house to represent their interests, just as the population voted for legislators in the other house to represent their interests. Now both houses are elected by the people and the states have no representation in Washington. “What’s wrong with this?” you ask. It sounds like a good thing, doesn’t it? Now, the people have control of both houses. The legislators are committed to the will of the people. What could possibly be wrong with that?
I will tell you exactly what is wrong with that, Pandering. The original reason a bill was to pass through both houses, was to ensure its benefit to the people and the states. If a small group of farmers were unsuccessful in making a profit and asked the government for a subsidy to keep their “business” going, the elected official sees new votes if he rewards their failure with the money of the successful citizens. He panders for these votes and agrees to the bill. Meanwhile, the legislators appointed by the state governments owe nothing to the individual voters. Their allegiance is to the general welfare of the state and say nay to the bill. Our money is saved from being wasted on unsuccessful endeavors. These farmers have to move on to more profitable ventures. Our economic freedom is saved.
However, it is not that way today. Both houses are elected by the population at large. This is why we now have subsidies for sheep farmers (which was to promote wool production for uniforms in WWII), welfare (which was supposed to be temporary assistance), bridges to nowhere (really, Alaska has built or is building a bridge higher and longer than San Francisco’s and New York’s to an Island with almost no population, which can be reached with a short ferry ride and took precedence over New Orleans’ request to divert some of those funds to repair a storm damaged bridge important to the infrastructure of the city) and billions and billions of dollars in other wasteful spending follies.
This is a direct result in our being transformed into a Democracy. The Mob rules. “A Democracy will only survive until the people discover they can vote the treasury for themselves.” That is exactly what has happened.
The reason for this lesson is to illustrate my main point. Both, the Republic and States Rights died at Appomattox and our freedoms have slowly passed away, one by one ever since. Lincoln was not the great savior everyone has been taught in school, but that’s another entry. As government expands year after year our basic freedoms are shrinking. Now, with the proposed immigration bill, Democracy will die as well. The welfare state will increase exponentially, which will lead to more pandering, which will lead to more taxes on the evil rich (which, if you make 30k a year, you are one of….it’s their nasty little secret), which will lead to the failure of small businesses and layoffs and the exodus of larger corporations, which will lead to more welfare recipients, which will lead to more dependence on government, which will lead inevitably to the total loss of freedom and complete governmental control. “Those who are willing to give up a little freedom for a little more security deserve neither freedom nor security and will eventually lose both”.
Our government leaders are still trying to pass a bill that is not healthy for this country. Thanks to conservative talk radio shows, the people were educated on the content and the loopholes of this bill. They responded with a unified “HELL NO!” and the bill was defeated and on life support. Now at the President’s insistence the bill is being revisited. He is pushing for the passing of a bill that the Nation has said no to. By the way, 212-456-1111 or 212-456-1414 are the Whitehouse numbers to tell Bush how you feel about this bill. Help save your country. Help defeat this bill.
God Bless America
Simply Annoyed
June 12, 2007 at 11:33 pm |
Great post, Simply Annoyed! I’ve visited several of your posts and enjoy them all! Keep up the good work!
June 12, 2007 at 11:56 pm |
Excellent post, well written. You are absolutely correct. I will continue to call and email those people targeted by The White House to change their votes. We need to fight on, now is not the time to quit. Write, call, email, fax.
June 13, 2007 at 10:06 am |
Well, if you’re a complete nut, I’m the 3rd nut to post a reply to this that absolutely agrees with you. I’ve done several entries on my blog with the ills of this bill. If this passes, we’re in a whole lot of trouble. The Heritage Foundation did a financial breakdown of this bill, and the cost and weight to bear by the American taxpayer is overwhelming. We’ll never be able to did ourselves out.
We’re following right down the path of Europe. A huge immigration problem, coupled with an enormous amount of social programs that are just draining the society. I can’t understand how we can look at these situations, see the ill effects, and say ‘yeah, that looks like a good plan, let’s try that here’. Learn from others mistakes as to not duplicate them.