There are many people today who know little or nothing about the U.S. Constitution, as I wrote to you this past weekend. There are many who also know little or nothing of U.S. history, let alone world history. There are many who know little or nothing about central banks, and how they are used to steal our wealth.There are many who buy into the glossed-over news of the day. There are many who take at face value the words of the elected class, the pundits and lamestream media talking heads and printed headlines.
There are many who buy into the party line of their preferred political party. There are many who blindly believe the various political parties have a platform on which they base their actions and agendas and are committed to following through on those policies. There are many who believe the president, senator or representative they elected has in their hearts the best interests of the people they supposedly serve.
There are many who are ignorant.
It’s not all their fault — particularly the younger generations. Their education system has been corrupted by 1960s radicalism — the same radicalism that has infected our government.
Public education has become a sad joke. Its downward slide accelerated with the passage of “No Child Left Behind.” None are left behind because none are allowed to get ahead. The intelligent children are left languishing and fending for themselves while extra resources are devoted to those unable to keep up.
In speaking with a seventh grader once, I asked what he had been studying in his U.S. history class. “Well, we spent about 20 minutes on World War II, then several class periods on how the U.S. Olympic Hockey Team beat the Russians in the 1980 Olympics,” was the reply. In class they watched Miracle, the 2004 movie about the team and its victory.
How backward is that? Twenty minutes spent learning about a six-year war spawned from the feckless, irresponsible and dastardly policies of the elected and ruling classes that resulted in the deaths of somewhere between 62 million and 79 million people worldwide. Several class periods on a three-hour hockey game that gave Americans a temporarily thrilling victory over a Cold War foe at the tail end of four moribund years of Jimmy Carterism.
Even the seventh grader was perplexed by his teacher’s decision.
Also glossed over in his class was more than 230 years of American history.
Is it any wonder there is so much ignorance?
Lack of understanding of the founding of our great country has led us to where we are now. Lack of understanding of the origins of the Federal Reserve — and other government attempts to establish a central bank — has led us to where we are now. Lack of understanding of the causes of Great Depression and the misguided (deliberately or unintentionally) attempts to head it off, and how government policies affected the country’s financial health for years has led us to where we are now. Lack of understanding of how a president’s policies can affect a country has led us to where we are now.
Where are we now? In an economic pit of our own making — suffering the aftereffects of a Fed-created bubble that spurred individuals and businesses to borrow and spend like there was no tomorrow. Now there may not be one.
Where are we now? Exacerbating the problem by dumping money out of helicopters in an attempt to stop it — at least that’s what the elected class tells us they’re trying to do. It’s a policy enacted by a supposed conservative, George W. Bush, and perpetuated on a grander scale by Barack Obama.
Where are we now? Watching as the elected class finds more ways to spend more money and steal the wealth of the individuals through massive tax hikes under the guise of everything reform.
Where are we now? Waiting for the other shoe to drop in the form of more taxes and more spending.
Where are we now? Enduring the Biden presidency, spawned from the Obama presidency, which was Jimmy Carter to the second power.
Sadly, many are ready to go full steam ahead with the exact same policies, and worse. Never mind that the elected class isn’t even considering whether such things are Constitutional. They feel it’s permissible under the general welfare clause of the Constitution.
Our healthcare system is in terrible shape, considering we don’t have healthcare. We have health insurance that you must purchase or face fines and possible jail terms.
When asked where Congress gets the authority to force Americans to buy health insurance, Congressmen — if they answer the question at all — cited the general welfare clause of the Constitution.
“Well, in promoting the general welfare the Constitution obviously gives broad authority to Congress to effect that end,” Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said at the time. “The end that we’re trying to effect is to make health care affordable, so I think clearly this is within our constitutional responsibility.”
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) didn’t answer the question at all. She replied, “Are you serious?” And Senator Roland Burris (D-Ill.), obviously a great Constitutional scholar, told CNSNews.com, “Well, that’s under certainly the laws of the — protect the health, welfare of the country.”
The word health does not appear in the Constitution. And the founders certainly never intended for the general welfare clause to be used to pass anything they pleased.
Don’t think the elected class is ignorant. They’re not. They know exactly what they’re doing — stealing your wealth and your liberty.
Never mind whether it’s Constitutional, says the elected class. We know what’s best for you.
Never mind whether it’s Constitutional, it’s free, say the ignorant.
Government can do everything better than the free market can, says the elected class.
Yeah. With the compassion of the Department of Motor Vehicles and the efficiency of the Post Office.
End the ignorance
Where are we now… really? Many are sitting in front of the television watching “reality” TV or anxiously awaiting the result of who “got elected.”
Some are waking up. But too many are ignorant. And apparently, they’re ready to accept anything as long as it’s “free.” After all, to the huddles masses, ignorance is bliss and free is good.
Relying on the external authority feels safe because it is the status quo. But freedom and happiness are only restored through self-reliance and acting on our own judgment. Self-sufficiency and self-worth produce ultimate happiness and human liberty.
All power flows to those who consider themselves “authorities” unless you protect yourself with knowledge, awareness, and a solid base of individualism. John Stuart Mill in On Liberty wrote that no society in which individual liberties are not respected can be free.
And so I always say to anyone who will listen: The very first step toward freedom is to recognize that the politics of envy (class warfare) and self-sacrifice are subtly practiced on us by the elites and slowly made palatable to the people through their propagandist mouthpieces.
Only when you free your mind will psychological power and advantage be reversed from external authorities back to you, the individual.
Bob Livingston
