Cat and Mouse, Bait and Switch

Watch Obama and his “posse” as they pull a cat and mouse game on the American public. With the economy looming so large in people’s minds, citizens are expecting that Obama’s stated plans for America will be subordinated to the best interests of the people. Wrong answer!!

Allowing Obama control over the finances of the TARP bailout money is a major mistake. There are no controls in place to ensure its proper use and should have never been initiated in the first place. The free market system would have brought a correction.

The perpetrators of the world-wide financial crisis which resulted in the perceived need for TARP should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law under the RICO Act. TARP was truly a “bait and switch” by corrupt politicians seeking to either line their own pockets or demonstrate their own ignorance of economics.

Obama’s plan to sign the Freedom of Choice Act is moving ahead to allow the murder of babies by abortion and killing of live-birth babies.

His plan to push his support of the so-called Gay agenda is also underway for the U.S. military. "It's time to turn the page on the bitterness and bigotry that fill so much of today's LGBT (Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender) rights debate," Obama said while campaigning. Although degraded by Bill Clinton’s “Don’t Ask—Don’t Tell” policy, the United States military, the greatest fighting force ever assembled, has had a policy in place against homosexual conduct since its formation. This policy annoys certain liberals who want to force their social agenda on the rest of the country and ignore those affected.

Obama’s announced intention to take away guns and ammunition from citizens in contravention of the 2^nd Amendment is also moving forward in several states by his enlisting the aid of liberal Democrats who want a total ban on firearms and ammunition in the hands of the public. Recent bills have been introduced in states to require the encoding of ammunition and confiscation or destruction of all un-encoded ammunition.

Likewise, attempts to convert our 401k, 403b, and other retirement funds into additions to Social Security are being proposed and which will essentially make the citizens of this once-great country slaves to the power-mongers in our country.

Obama’s insouciance, arrogance, and naïveté must not be allowed to put our country down the sewer of immorality and corruption. While our silence has brought this about, it must stop now!

These are dangerous times (in our country and world-wide) and we must remain vigilant to thwart these insidious attempts to turn America to Obama’s Marxist/Socialist agenda!! We can no longer allow our legislators to run free with our country. Get involved at every level!!

 

Extinction of Morals

Samuel Adams, one of our nation’s founders, wisely noted from his religious training, life and attitude that:

“Revelation assures us that ‘Righteousness exalteth a Nation’—Communities are dealt with in this World by the wise and just Ruler of the Universe. He rewards or punishes them according to their general Character. The diminution of publick Virtue is usually attended with that of publick Happiness, and the publick Liberty will not long survive the total Extinction of Morals.”

The current condition of our nation’s populous and more so of those elected to represent them reveals that we may be in for some tough times in the near future. 

Recent reports of moral and integrity failures among our elected officials serve to highlight the depth of the problem. As stated so well by Walt Kelly in the now extinct Pogo cartoon series so many years ago, "We have met the enemy and he is us." Corrupt, and often moneyed, politicians have managed to blind people to their true agenda and thus seduced voters into placing them in office where they can further line their pockets with money generated from the labors of the public.

The devolution of morality in the United States, pointed out even by our enemies and those inclined to terrorist acts, does not bode well for us and our future liberty. We are too much in debt to those not our friends. 

Without a return to the solid values recommended by the Christian Bible: Humility, integrity, self-denial, courage, commitment, honor, etc. we place our liberty at risk.

We no longer have the option of assuming the political system is acting in our best interests. We must closely follow the initiatives and decisions and depose those who demonstrably serve themselves instead of the public.

We Were Warned

Our founding fathers warned us of the character of fallen human nature and the necessity of retaining high standards and values to avoid descent into an immoral and corruption society.

Thomas Jefferson, skilled thinker and wise observer of humankind, said:

"Political interest [can] never be separated in the long run from moral right." —Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 1806.
"The human character, we believe, requires in general constant and immediate control to prevent its being biased from right by the seductions of self-love." —Thomas Jefferson to Pierre Samuel Dupont de Nemours, 1816. 
"I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others." —Thomas Jefferson to A. L. C. Destutt de Tracy, 1811.
"Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people." —Thomas Jefferson to Isaac H. Tiffany, 1816.
"Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed." —Thomas Jefferson: Declaration of Independence, 1776.
"Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established, should not be changed for light and transient causes... But, when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is [the people's] right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security." —Thomas Jefferson: Declaration of Independence, 1776.
"Aristocrats fear the people, and wish to transfer all power to the higher classes of society." —Thomas Jefferson to William Short, 1825.
"Aristocrats fear the people, and wish to transfer all power to the higher classes of society." —Thomas Jefferson to William Short, 1825.
"No other depositories of power [but the people themselves] have ever yet been found, which did not end in converting to their own profit the earnings of those committed to their charge." —Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Kercheval, 1816.
"I know no safe depositary of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education.  This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power." —Thomas Jefferson to William C. Jarvis, 1820.
"If once [the people] become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves.  It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions." —Thomas Jefferson to Edward Carrington, 1787.
"Where the law of the majority ceases to be acknowledged, there government ends; the law of the strongest takes its place, and life and property are his who can take them." —Thomas Jefferson to Annapolis Citizens, 1809.
"It is a happy truth that man is capable of self-government, and only rendered otherwise by the moral degradation designedly superinduced on him by the wicked acts of his tyrant." —Thomas Jefferson to M. de Marbois, 1817.
"Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread." —Thomas Jefferson: Autobiography, 1821.
"If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them, they must become happy." —Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Cooper, 1802
"We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude." —Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Kercheval, 1816.

Jefferson’s exhortations and cautionary comments serve to highlight some of the problems in the devolution of our society that must be addressed in public forum and seriously considered in the legislature. The moral degradation and corruption cited by Jefferson is endemic among our representatives today.

We can no longer sit idly by and allow morally weak men and women to make decisions for the population of the United States.

Samuel Adams said:

• “He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country, who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections.”
  
• “The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks.”
  
• “The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.”
  

As Adams said so well, “It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.”

John Adams said:

• "We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." —October 11, 1798
  

Did John Adams imply that when society’s values drop so low, we must change our constitution to allow for the moral devolution and corruption of society to set new, lower standards for our nation? By no means!! Standing in the muck and mire of our so-called “modern” world, we must instead raise our eyes to the heavens and begin again the journey of rediscovery of the principles God designed us to be guided by.

An example from history should suffice to give us pause as we head into a new regime in our federal government.

When the Israelites became enamored with the nations surrounding them, they demanded a king so they could be just like the other nations. Samuel, Judge and Prophet, after discussing it with God in prayer, warned them:

^{“. . .} This is what the king who will reign over you will do: He will take your sons and make them serve with his chariots and horses, and they will run in front of his chariots. Some he will assign to be commanders of thousands and commanders of fifties, and others to plow his ground and reap his harvest, and still others to make weapons of war and equipment for his chariots. He will take your daughters to be perfumers and cooks and bakers. He will take the best of your fields and vineyards and olive groves and give them to his attendants. He will take a tenth of your grain and of your vintage and give it to his officials and attendants. Your menservants and maidservants and the best of your cattle and donkeys he will take for his own use. He will take a tenth of your flocks, and you yourselves will become his slaves. When that day comes, you will cry out for relief from the king you have chosen, and the LORD will not answer you in that day."” 1 Samuel 8:11-18 ^NIV

Beware of the promises of morally bankrupt deceivers!

If My People . . .

The Bible records the exhortation:

^“. . . if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.” 2 Chronicles 7:14 ^NIV

As a nation, we must turn to God to restore us to the place of respect we once held in the world. We have failed in our duty to serve and obey Him and, instead followed “wicked ways.” We have allowed our moral senses to become dull and perverted, seeking our own pleasure rather than the joy God gives faithful people. We have allowed many “gods” to have voice in our nation in place of the true God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. We have selected leaders unworthy of leading this once great nation.

Now is the time to say “no” to the sin that has so easily entangled us. We must insist that men and women we elect to government office lead us on a moral path that brings honor to God instead of Mammon!

Preamble to the U.S. Constitution

“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”

We the people established this country to:

·         Form a more perfect Union

·         Establish justice

·         Ensure domestic tranquility

·         Provide for the common defense

·         Promote the general welfare

·         Secure the blessings of liberty

In all these things we are failing miserably.

From the Declaration of Independence

. . . .We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. . . .

Our own Declaration of Independence asserts that “Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.” The just powers of our government have been subverted by unscrupulous men and women sent to Washington to lead us. This must stop!

We need not worry because in the long run there is a God who will help us recover from the mess our inept, corrupt, immoral federal leadership has gotten us into. But only God can help us if Barak Obama is elected President.

Ancient writings record that we need not live in fear. But Christians can no longer remain complaisant, we must speak out and vote into office those worthy of leading us. And we must vote out of office those who have proven themselves to be self-serving, unrighteous, and even evil.

"I tell you, my friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body and after that can do no more. But I will show you whom you should fear: Fear him who, after the killing of the body, has power to throw you into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear him. Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? Yet not one of them is forgotten by God. Indeed, the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Don't be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows. "I tell you, whoever acknowledges me before men, the Son of Man will also acknowledge him before the angels of God. But he who disowns me before men will be disowned before the angels of God. Luke 12:4-9 ^NIV

Then Jesus said to his disciples: "Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat; or about your body, what you will wear. Life is more than food, and the body more than clothes. Consider the ravens: They do not sow or reap, they have no storeroom or barn; yet God feeds them. And how much more valuable you are than birds! Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? Since you cannot do this very little thing, why do you worry about the rest? "Consider how the lilies grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you, not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today, and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, how much more will he clothe you, O you of little faith! And do not set your heart on what you will eat or drink; do not worry about it. For the pagan world runs after all such things, and your Father knows that you need them. But seek his kingdom, and these things will be given to you as well. "Do not be afraid, little flock, for your Father has been pleased to give you the kingdom. Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Provide purses for yourselves that will not wear out, a treasure in heaven that will not be exhausted, where no thief comes near and no moth destroys. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. Luke 12:22-34 ^NIV

God will take care of those who are part of his family and choose to serve Him!