TRUTH IN POLITICS

Forming Of A Government
What goes on in Washington never ceases to amaze me, with the present administration blaming Bush for their foibles. Every President since the turn of the century has tried to pass the blame to the one before, especially if it was a different party. For a legislature to believe the rhetoric is bull to begin with, because most of the problems could have been stopped by the Congress and the Senate. It is simply ‘passing the buck’; trying to take the blame from the present administration’s shoulders.

The blame lies with the administration in power, not the President before. Though all administrations have made their mistakes, it is not the President who is singularly to blame. The President is only the elected leader with limited power to act. It takes the Senate and the Congress (in agreement) to make policy and law. When our founding father’s formed our constitution and our form of government, they saw that a need was there for a check and balance system.

This is why the Senate and Congress, or the legislative branch of government is there to pass our laws. The President has power to use executive privilege in emergency situations, but it is not the enactment of laws. Thereby the two branches of government, the Executive and the legislative branches, have to agree as a majority on each enactment passed into law.

This was not enough for the founding fathers, so they placed a third branch of government in power over both these, the judicial branch was formed, to keep the other two from gaining total power. When the executive and legislative branches abused their power or did something that was against the rules of the Constitution it is the judicial branch in place to correct these mistakes and bring our government back on track.

This is one reason that each President is elated when they can appoint ne people to the Supreme Court. Those appointments do however have to be passed by the Congress or judicial branch of the government. In essence if an appointed candidate to the Supreme Court is too far ‘left leaning’ or too far ‘right leaning’, the legislative branch (which is made up of both parties and even a third party) can override the appointment in many cases. This keeps the balance of power fair and representative of the people for the life of those appointed to the bench.

It is another reason for keeping the balance on the Supreme Court close to equal. They are the final say as to our government and its workings. Their appointment is for life or retirement. Sometimes the Supreme Court becomes unbalanced when a judge steps down or retires during the tenure of one side or the other, but it usually stays pretty well balanced. This is supposedly our protection from a totalitarian government taking control of the existing form we have. It is a Republic form of government, and has proved to be the best form in the world for the last two hundred years.

I can remember, as many of you can, when a Democrat President coined the phrase “the buck stops here”. He pretty much adhered to this phrase during his tenure as President, but like all humans he too disavowed certain mistakes as not his doing, but he couldn’t pass it on to the previous President, because that President was also a Democrat. In this case he had to stand behind most of his actions or blame the Senate and Congress, which he did on occasion.

Change In Our Government
When a President preaches change, but gives no direction in which he wants to change it, we wind up with someone like Barack Obama, who thinks he can change our government to a system that is totally out of context with the founding fathers and the Constitution of the United States, a government that has proven to work better than any other form of government in the entire world. True it isn’t perfect, but it has proven better than Nazi, Communist, Socialist, Dictatorship or the Oligarchy we see in many of the nations to our south.

What does our African Colonialist President see for our utopian future? He sees a downtrodden black race, whose rights have been trampled on for generations by the white authoritarian government that ruled Africa for the last three hundred years. He sees slaves that have not been given equal chance in this country since their freedom after the Civil War. Is any of this true or is it simply in the mind of the President? Has the Republican Party been the oppressor of the black race or has it been the Democrat Party who wanted slavery to continue and fought the Civil War to perpetuate the slavery system?

Wasn’t it the Democrat Party that formed the Klu Klux Klan, hung innocent people in the name of a supreme white race? Wasn’t it the Democrat Party that passed the Jim Crow laws and fought against the progress of the black race? Wasn’t it a member of the Democrat Party, (Governor Wallace) that used his power in the State of Alabama to put down the marches for civil rights by Martin Luther King, yet try to shift the blame to the Republican Party for all these deeds?

Wasn’t it the Democrat Party that went after the unions in this country to break them, while spouting rhetoric that they were the working man’s party? What party was in office when John L Sullivan’s union lost most of its power? Who sent Jimmy Hoffa to prison on a miniscule charge? In some cases, putting down corruption was used as the excuse. Was this really the reason, or did they want men with that much power out of the way?

Yet Obama wants to take us into a world of Socialism, or Communism, or a combination of both, that has proven not to work throughout history. When you take away a man’s right to invent or excel with his own ingenuity, you doom a society to failure. Why should a man break his back to excel or invent new devices if all the profit goes to the government to be distributed among the people that do not excel or invent? Whey should a man use his mind to create, when it will all be divided among those who do not create?

There is an old adage or cliché that says, “Be careful what you wish for, because you just might get it.” Have you truly thought about what this adage means? We have a form of government that has made us one of the richest countries in the world even though the rest of the world said it couldn’t work. What do we have to look forward to if we turn away from God and lose our very souls? Where will we turn when the government is changed and we lose all we own?

Look back at the roman Empire, Argentina, Mexico, Haiti, China, Japan, Germany, Italy, Uganda and all the other forms of government that are totalitarianistic governments, or have been, and ask yourself if you want to travel that road. Why do we still stand as a beacon to the world? Why are the people of the world fighting to get into our country? Why do they want to destroy what they cannot attain? Think very hard on that cliché; “Be careful what you wish for.” Do you really want what many of you are wishing for?