What if the government’s goal is to perpetuate itself? What if the
real levers of governmental power are pulled by agents and diplomats and
bureaucrats behind the scenes? What if they stay in power no matter who
is elected president or which political party controls Congress?
What if the frequent public displays of adversity between the
Republicans and the Democrats are just a facade and a charade? What if
both major political parties agree on the transcendental issues of our
day?
What if the leadership of both major political parties believes that
our rights are not natural to our humanity but instead gifts from the
government? What if those leaders believe that the government that gives
gifts to the people can take those gifts back?
What if the leadership of both parties gives only lip service to
Thomas Jefferson’s words in the Declaration of Independence that all
people “are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,
(and) among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness” and
that the purpose of government is to protect these rights? What if the
leadership of both parties dismisses these ideas as just Jefferson’s
outdated musings? What if Jefferson’s arguments have been enacted into
the federal laws that all in government have sworn to uphold?
What if the leadership of the parties believes that the
constitutional requirement of due process somehow permits mothers to
kill the babies in their wombs out of fear or convenience? What if the
leaders of both parties believe that the president should be able to
kill whomever he wants out of fear because due process is an
inconvenience?
What if President Barack Obama has killed Americans and claimed that
he has done so legally, relying on the convenient arguments of his
attorney general, who falsely told him his killings are consistent with
due process? What if the Constitution requires due process whenever the
government wants someone’s life, liberty or property, whether convenient
or not? What if due process means a fair jury trial, not an ordered
killing?
What if the congressional leadership and most of the membership from
both major political parties believe in perpetual war and perpetual
debt? What if the history of American government in the past 100 years
is proof of this nearly universal belief among the political class?
What if the political class in America believes that war is the
health of the state? What if the leadership of that class wants war so
as to induce the loyalty of the voters, open the pocketbooks of the
taxpayers and cause compliance among the people? What if the political
class uses war to enrich its benefactors? What if the government has
been paying for war by increasing its debt?
What if the political class has been paying for prosperity by
increasing the government’s debt? What if that class has controlled the
cash-creating computers at the Federal Reserve and the free cash the Fed
creates is to bankers and traders what heroin is to addicts? What if
the $18.6 trillion current federal government debt has largely been
caused by borrowing to pay for war and false prosperity? What if 20
cents of every tax dollar collected by the feds today is spent on
interest payments for the government’s debt?
What if American taxpayers are still paying interest on debts
incurred by Woodrow Wilson, FDR, JFK, LBJ, Ronald Reagan and every
modern president?
What if the silent damage that the artificial creation of cash causes
has been manifested not in price inflation but in equity and savings
deflation? What if the manifestation of equity deflation is that too
much of everything we own secures too much debt? What if the folks at
the Fed who create the cash have kept interest rates so low that there
is little incentive to save?
What if we all own a smaller percentage of what we think we own
because the value of what we own has decreased as the debt on what we
own has increased? What if the banks have borrowed the money that they
lend? What if they can’t pay it back? What if the stock market is
soaring on borrowed money? What if mansions and shopping malls are
popping up but they secure more debt than they are worth? What happens
when the plug is pulled on this temporary artifice when those debts come
due?
What if the government demands transparency from all of us but
declines to be transparent to us? What if the government fosters the
make-believe notion that it exists to serve us? What if the government
denies that it works for us and thinks we work for it? What if it has
access to all of our communications, bank accounts, health and legal
records, and monthly utility and credit card bills? What if the
government knows more about us than we know about it?
What if the government stays in power by bribery? What if it bribes
the states with grants of cash, the rich with bailouts, the middle class
with tax cuts and the poor with welfare? What if the courts have
approved this bribery?
What if, on Thanksgiving Day, our gratitude is not to the government
that assails our freedoms but to God, who gave us our freedoms? What if,
on Thanksgiving Day, our gratitude is for life, liberty and the pursuit
of happiness? What if we possess them despite the government?
What if, on Thanksgiving Day, we should be most grateful that we are
free creatures made in God’s image and likeness? What if we are free to
reject the government?
