The Principles of Liberty - Principle 9

By Charity Angel

To Protect Man's Rights, God has Revealed Certain Principles of Divine Law

Rights could not remain unalienable unless they were protected as enforceable rights under a code of divine law.

William Blackstone said, " These are the eternal, immutable laws of good and evil, to which the Creator Himself in all His dispensations conforms." Among these principles are living honestly, not hurting others and giving everyone their due.

Blackstone also said that it was necessary for God to disclose these laws by direct revelation. He stated that they could only be found in the Holy Scriptures. That they are part of the original law of Nature.

This divine pattern of law for human happiness requires a recognition of God's supremacy over all things. The name of God is to be held in reverence. Every oath taken in His name honored, otherwise the name of God is taken in vain. These principles will be commonly recognized as the ten commandments.

Divine law endows mankind with unalienable duties as well as unalienable rights. Thomas Jefferson said, "Man has no natural right in opposition to his social duties." There are two kinds of duties, public and private. Public duties include public morality and are generally enforced under local or state ordinances by the police power of the state. Private duties are between individuals and The Creator. The only enforcement agency is self-discipline. Our, Unalienable duties both public and private are an inherent part of natural law. Each individual has the responsibility to respect the unalienable rights of others.

There are many public and private duties, to list just a few; Honor the Creator, Do not take life except in self-defense, do not steal or destroy the property of others, deal honestly with everyone, honor parents and elderly, parents and elders are to provide for and teach the children, Support law and order and keep the peace, Don't covet, Help the needy, sick, injured and disabled, perform your contracts with God and man and there are many more.

The Creator revealed a Divine Law of Criminal Justice. It is called justice through reparation. It was practiced by the ancient Israelites and the Anglo-Saxons. A number of states have begun to adopt this system, which requires the judge to consult with the victim before passing sentence.

What if a law is passed that is contrary to God's law?

Among the Anglo-Saxons and the ancient Israelites, the law of God was considered sacred and not subject to change by legislative bodies. They did not make new laws, they continually restored the old ones.

John Locke said, "The law of nature stands as an eternal rule to all men, legislators as well as others. The laws that they do make for men must be conformable to the law of nature, to the will of God."

How can the people be protected from autocratic authority of their rulers? Where does the source of Sovereign Authority lie? Stay tuned for principle 10.

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The Principles of Liberty - Principle 8

"Men are endowed by their Creator with certain Unalienable Rights"

The Founders did not believe that the basic rights of mankind originated from any social compact, king, emperor, or governmental authority. Those rights, they believed, came directly and exclusively from God. Therefore they were to remain sacred and inviolate.

We may do something ourselves to forfeit the unalienable rights endowed by the Creator, but no one can take those rights from us without being subjected to God's justice. This is what makes certain rights unalienable. They are inherent rights given to us by the Creator. That is why they are called natural rights.

We have other rights that are called vested rights, which are created by the community, state or the nation for our protection or well-being. However, these can be changed whenever the law makers feel like it. These would be things like areas that are off-limits for hunting, or the right to travel on the public highway. But, the government could not pass a law to destroy all life under the age of two or lock up everyone that is of a certain race, religion, hair color and so on. They cannot destroy the right to life or the right to liberty. A person could lose their liberty due to misbehavior, but not because they have a certain eye color, hair color, or religion.

Besides the right to life, liberty and property, we have many more unalienable rights. If you want to know what those are, read the book, "The 5000 Year Leap."

How do we know that our rights are God Given? It is because they are already present when we are born, no one says that we have now been granted the right to live, it is apparent to anyone that we have a right to our own life. Society has laws that prevent the taking of it, because it is not within the right or power of another to trample on rights that were not granted by mankind, but by the Creator.

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Change Agents Toward a New American Dream

America will never be what she was on July 4, 1776! Furthermore, America should never be what she is on April 7, 2010. The dreams and visions our Founding Fathers had for America is all but forgotten by most of the world. They have been lost in the rhetoric of the past. What we need today is a 21st Century dream for a New America that will be fueled by what we have learned in our past experiences. What we need is a New America that can dream again.

In comparing July 4, 1776 with April 7, 2010, we can glean many lessons that time has taught us. We can know what works and what does not work. We can discard the things that have not worked. We can renew the things that have worked. We can teach the workable things to our children and children's children. We can refuse to be sidetracked by self-serving special interest groups.

America is bleeding from the beatings she has received from her enemies and professed friends. It is time to bandage up her wounds and stand her up on her feet. It is time to unite our forces that will pump new life into her. It is time to let America dream again. It is time to let America bless the world again.

There are many agents that are working toward renewing "The American Dream." The following are a few grassroots agents that are working night and day to lift America up to new heights she has never experienced before. There are many more that are not listed in this article.

The Tea Party and 9-12 movements. These groups have done much to spring us into action. America is being awakened. People are beginning to get involved. God is raising up a new breed of leadership that will uphold our religious and domestic rights that are listed in our founding documents and our Holy Book, The Judeo-Christian Scriptures.

The Oath Keepers and Militia movements. These change agents stand ready to defend our beloved America against enemies, domestic and foreign, that seek to enslave us. They have determined America will breathe the invigorating air of life, liberty and justice for all her citizens.

The Patriots and Minutemen movements. These change agents are doing their part to educate and equip America to remain under her God-given freedoms.

The Christ-centered, Bible-based churches and the May Day movements. These change agents are calling on Americans everywhere to turn their eyes on Jesus. They are calling for a 2 Chronicles 7:14 day of prayers of repentance on May 1, 2010 at the Lincoln Memorial and throughout the nation. This is the most powerful of all change agents that will position America so she can dream again.

The Creation-Science and Christ-centered groups in secular colleges. There are many of these that God is using to turn America back to God.

We are on the edge of the greatest movement of change agents America has experienced for decades. When all these grassroots groups converge together under the mighty hand of our Lord God of Glory, America will be freed to dream again. She will be freed to breathe in the life changing air of a renewed commitment to God and her liberated citizens.

Here are some principles to keep in mind as things get heated up:

1.Do not panic. God is in control and will have the last word.
2.Do not surrender to the enemy. Keep the faith. Keep the hope. Keep the love.
3.Fit in with the group you feel most adapted to. Do what you can. Keep committed.
4.Do not get violent. If you live by the sword you will die by the sword. This is no time to lose your cool and play the fool. The process of peace and goodwill will win over strife and confusion.
5.Keep focused. The reason for the battle is to create a New America that can dream again.
6.Do all you can to be a peacemaker. As the vision gets brighter, many of our enemies will become our friends.
7.Keep your faith in God. God is our friend. He wants us to have a New America that can rejoice in Him. He is getting us ready to form a new covenant with Himself and our fellow Americans. The joy of the Lord is our strength. It is His glory that will return very soon. We are "more than conquerors through Him Who loved us and gave Himself for us." We are on the winner's side. Let the party begin!

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The Principles of Liberty - Principle 7

"The Proper role of Government is to Protect Equal Rights, Not Provide Equal Things."

During the days of the Founders in Europe, it was popular for people to proclaim that the role of government was to take from the 'haves' and give to the 'have nots' so that all might be truly 'equal'. However, the founders knew that this proposition contained a major fallacy.

People cannot delegate to government the power to do anything that they could not do themselves. We have the right to protect our life and property, therefore, we have the ability to delegate our protection to government through a police force, which would protect the lives and property of all the people.

Let's suppose that there is a kind-hearted man that saw that one neighbor had two cars, while another neighbor had none. What would happen if the kind man went to the neighbor with two cars, took one, and then generously gave it to the neighbor that had none? He would be arrested for theft of course! No matter how genuinely he cared about his neighbor with none, he has no right to steal from the neighbor with abundance and give it to another. The neighbor with abundance still has the right to their property. Of course, the prosperous neighbor could choose to donate the care to the neighbor in need, but it would be his decision, and not that of the kind-hearted neighbor who wanted to rob from the rich to give to the poor.

Governments can sometimes commit 'legal' crimes. Let's say that the kind-hearted man asks the mayor and city council to give one of the cars from the prosperous neighbor to the man with none, does that make it anymore right? Of course not! And it is worse, because now, not only did the man lose his property, but now he also lost his right to appeal because the government did it. The Founders warned that anytime a government is allowed to start taking the possessions of others to start equalizing the distribution of goods, then the government thereafter will have been given the power to take away the right to enjoy life, liberty and property from ANY of the people.

Those who receive from this idea generally think that this is a just system. But what happens when government starts taking also from those that are poor? Then they will claim their right to their property, but the government will then say,"Now we decide who has rights in things." When the government was given the power to rob from the rich and give to the poor it immediately nullifies the principle of guaranteed equal rights, it opens the floodgates for government to meddle with everyone's rights.

When Communists seized power in Hungary, the peasants were delighted at first when the government seized the large farms from their owners, and then gave it to the peasants. But then later, the government seized 3/4 of the peasant land to create government communal farms, of course the peasants screamed about their property rights, but it was too late. If they continued to protest, they lost their liberty and in several instances their lives.

The Founders made sure that we could protect our freedom to prosper by protecting the rights of ALL people. There was no penalty for getting rich. The people would not be locked into the poverty level as they had in other nations. There would be some that would have more than others, but the entire nation could prosper. It was believed that man had an instinct to succeed and by having the freedom to prosper, the whole people would prosper together. People were encouraged to store up and save for a time when things were not prosperous, or to help their neighbors when they hit on rough times. Hard work, thrift and frugality were the key words for the American Ethic.

The Founders made these European theories unconstitutional. America became the most prosperous and most educated nation in the world, and consequently, the most generous. Samuel Adams said, "The utopian schemes of leveling (redistribution of wealth), and a community of goods (central ownership of all the means of production and distribution), are as visionary and impractical as those which vest all property in the Crown. (These ideas) are arbitrary, despotic, and in our government, unconstitutional."

Yet, there are still those who insist that compassion for the poor requires the Federal Government becoming involved and taking from the 'haves' and giving to the 'have nots'. Benjamin Franklin had been one of the 'have nots' and having experienced these welfare programs of 'counter-productive compassion', he wrote an entire essay on the subject. He called the programs a great evil in not only the way in which it operates, but also because it encourages idleness.

Franklin wrote: "To relieve the misfortune of our fellow creatures is concurring with the deity; it is godlike; but, if we provide encouragement for laziness, and supports for folly, may we not be found fighting against the order of God and Nature, which perhaps has appointed want and misery as the proper punishments for, and caution against, as well as necessary consequences of, Idleness and extravagance? Whenever we attempt to amend the scheme of Providence, and to interfere with the government of the world, we had need be very circumspect, lest we do more harm then good."

The Founders all had deep feelings about helping the poor and less fortunate, but they had guidelines, a calculated compassion:

1. Do not help the needy completely, simply help them help themselves.
2. Give the poor the satisfaction of earned achievement instead of rewarding without achievement.
3. Allow the poor to climb the 'appreciation ladder', from tents to cabins, cabins to cottages, cottages to comfortable homes.
4. Where emergency help is provided, do not prolong it to where it becomes habitual.
5. Strictly enforce fixed responsibility.

First the individual is responsible for himself, the second level is the family, then the church, next the community, finally the country and in a disaster or emergency, the state. Under no circumstances is the Federal Government to become involved in welfare. The Founders felt that this would corrupt the government and the poor. There is NO constitutional authority for the federal government to participate in charity or welfare.

The Founders did this to protect the people from abuse by an overly-aggressive government.

What can we do to keep the government in check? We can be good neighbors, love them, care about them, and work within our communities to find solutions and solve their problems. We need to return to helping each other help ourselves and not letting their be a need to turn to government. We can support community organizations that serve those in need in our communities through donating goods, services, time, talents and money. Additionally, we can raise our voices to change the way that things are being done now. Undo the government programs at a planned rate while replacing them with community action by the people.

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America Rising: An Open Letter to Democrat Politicians

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Do Politicians Need to Go Undercover?

It has been educational and interesting to watch the new show, Undercover Boss. Corporate executives pose as a new employee starting in the company. They work for one day at various jobs in the company in various locations to gain an impression of what their employees experience. Thus far each show has revealed some serious problems, as well as some very good situations.

Each executive has been surprised by their discoveries, believing that they had a much better idea of what occurred than they actually had. As one commented, when they visit an outlet or branch, everyone knows they are coming and they see only the best. Most of their input is normally derived from regional managers who get their information from area managers. Area managers receive their input from outlet managers, who are in contact with shift managers, overseeing the employees. Information is lost at each step of the process. Decisions are made which affect the most basic levels, but often unexpected results are not seen at the decision level.

When 7-11 CEO visited the store that sells the most cups of coffee of any in their world wide chain to see what the difference was, since the store sells several times as much as any other store. He was surprised to learn that the difference was the lady making the coffee. She used the same coffee but was very particular about how the coffee was made. She also chatted with the customers, calling them by name and showing interest in them, selling more than 2500 cups of coffee daily. Working with her, he discovered that the location of the sink made keeping up very difficult. He mentioned this and she said that she had made the same request repeatedly but that it had never been heeded, The CEO realized that changing the arrangement, and training other employees to deal with customers in a similar manner could have a huge impact on their coffee sales.

Another problem he discovered was that priorities of maintence were much different at corporate offices and in individual stores. Changing light bulbs was low in priority at the maintenance division, but store managers and employees saw that bad lighting increased the likely hood of injury, and led to mistakes and customer dissatisfaction.

Waste Management's CEO discovered that attempts to increase profitability sometimes resulted in loss of business or employee dissatisfaction, such as docking an employee for being late, or expecting other employees to take up the slack when someone quit. In one case one employee was covering what had formerly been three other employees jobs, with no additional pay. Stress was forcing her to consider finding another job. Constant evaluations of employees was creating anxiety and an increase in turnover.

In an effort to produce a consistent quality of product, White Castle Hamburgers had developed a policy in which a specific order of assembly of the hamburgers was required. Employees discovered that the sequence slowed production to a level that would not meet the orders. By changing the sequence they could do so. The supervisor lived in dread of losing her job because she was not following company policy or losing her job because the line was not producing enough.

Hooter's Restaurants discovered that their policies appeared to many to be degrading to women, and resulted in some managers treating women in a degrading manner. As a result, many women and families would not eat there, and some employees would not recommend it as a place to work.

The CEOs in each case had been unaware of these problems. In many cases they had approved these policies in an effort to prevent or resolve some other problem, not realizing the effect it would have on their business. Many times the needed changes were minimal in cost, but made tremendous differences in customer or employee satisfaction. Until they actually experienced it for themselves, the importance was not recognized.

We find a similar disconnect between our political figures and their constituents. Most of Congress's information is derived from state party leaders and political figures who get their information from lower ranking political figures, or government employees. Even sincere attempts to get grassroots information can fail because of filtering by party leaders, or a desire on the part of constituents to put their best foot forward when meeting such important people. Many times, people have become so used to problems they have just accepted that no change will be made, and don't mention them, like the location of the sink in the 7-11 stores.

Different priorities can result in failure to recognize real problems, like maintenance's failure to realize the importance of replacing light bulbs. For example, while some people cannot get insurance due to pre-existing conditions, far more cannot afford the price of health insurance. To pay taxes or higher prices for other's to be covered will only exacerbate the problem. Unfortunately, such a problem may be dismissed as minor by those in authority, because it doesn't affect them.

In large part, current dissatisfaction with political leadership stems from this disconnect. Like the CEOs, they have no idea what their constituents face each day. The five days undercover did not reveal all the problems, but it did show the CEOs that problems existed of which they were unaware. Perhaps a similar effort would make political leaders aware of their isolation from the daily problems of most people.

President Obama's reported family income of 4.6 million in 2007 was far lower than that of most congressional leaders, but it is more than 100 times as much as the average family in New Mexico earns. It is nearly 20 times as much as the lowest level of those who are expected to pay extra for the healthcare and bailout programs earn. The essential cost for a family of four should be very nearly the same, so the majority of difference is in discretionary spending, for a nicer home or car, etc. Mandantory insurance or increased taxes will affect him far less than it will the average person, or even the small business owner. It will affect some of the others much less than it affects him.

Going undercover might well enable our politicians to better understand the concerns of their constituents, although it would not reveal everything. The longer a man has been in politics, the separation from his people, and the more he needs to make such an effort to connect.

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The Principles of Liberty - Principle 6

All Men Are Created Equal

When we read the statement "All Mankind are Created Equal", what do we think that it means? We know that we are all born into different lifestyles, have different talents and abilities, and different opportunities, so what did the Founder's mean by that statement? There are only three ways that mankind can be equal, and they are to be treated as equals in the sight of God, in the sight of the law, and in the protection of their rights. Some people, like Jean Jacques Rousseau, get a little confused and think that this means that men should be equal in all things. John Adam's called this type of thinking a "gross fraud".

While our country has not had a perfect history in defending the rights of all, that is what the Founder's intended. The breakdown really occurs with minorities. Minorities in any country feel like they are the outsiders and they want to be the insiders. What is interesting about America is that every group in this nation was once a minority. After the major influx of immigrants to the U.S., it was only two or three generations before the immigrants became first-class citizens.

After the Constitution was adopted in 1789, there were four amendments added to make sure that everyone could enjoy equal rights. These were the thirteenth, the fourteenth, the fifteenth, and the Nineteenth.

The Founders distinguished between equal rights and they recognized that society should seek to provide equal opportunities but not expect equal results, provide for equal rights, but not equal things; provide equal protection but not equal status; provide equal education opportunities but not equal grades. The founder's believed that the moment that we tried to force people to have everything equally would be the moment that we lose our liberty.

How do we protect our liberty by making sure that we all have equal opportunity, but do not fall for the social trap of having equal things? We do this by learning to be satisfied with what we have in our own lives, and by not coveting what our neighbor has. While it is a simple principle, it is hard for some to live. Many think that they are entitled to have everything, and are unhappy if they don't. Another way that we can protect liberty is not to support or vote for any programs that redistribute the wealth of the people, no matter how good they make it sound, or how charitable they claim their motivations are. Individuals are much more effective at charity work then any government could ever be.

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A Tale Of Two Tea Parties

Lying to the American people is a time honored pastime which has evolved into a fine art by our government.

The story of the Boston Tea Party, the real story, is much more fun than the government sponsored version, and I'll present it to you, dear reader, just as a backdrop to what is going on in 2010, with the emergence of a new Tea Party.

In December 1773, three British ships arrived in Boston harbor, laden with cheap Dutch East India tea. This company was going bankrupt, with a million pounds of tea starting to rot in their London warehouses. They decided to ship their tea to America, to be sold at fire sale prices. Good for them, good for American tea buyers.

Samuel Adams and John Hancock had been making their fortunes by smuggling cheap Dutch tea into America, undercutting the price established by the Dutch East India Company. This was one of the reasons that the British company was in dire financial straits. Americans were buying the cheap, smuggled tea, not theirs.

When Adams and Hancock beheld these 3 ships in their harbor, they saw their businesses on the brink of extinction, with their warehouses full of smuggled Dutch tea having its value cut in half. The two American patriots convinced the locals that if they allowed the cheap British tea into America, the tea would be followed by other cheap British commodities, ruining their American businesses. This was a lie, but believed well enough so that about 50 or so patriotic Americans were convinced to embarrass themselves by dressing up like American Indians, going out to the British ships, and with great encouragement from Hancock and Adams, smashed open the boxes of British tea and tossed them into Boston Harbor.

The businesses of Adams and Hancock were saved, and today we have at least two monuments to these American patriots in the form of a huge building in Boston named for Hancock, and a damn fine beer named for Adams.

Fast forward to 2010 and the emergence of a political group of angry Americans named for the original Boston Tea Party. The engine driving this new force is anger over the Democrat controlled government that is lying to the American people, continuing this fine old tradition. What they are trying to convince the people to do, though, is not to toss cheap tea overboard, but to believe that they, our rulers, know what they are doing, will fix the economy, will keep all of us safe from nut cases like the Underwear Bomber, will give all Americans the very best health care system in the world, and on and on.

It ain't so, and millions of Americans are waking up to the realization that the Democrats/Liberals/President Obama don't have a clue about how to fix the things that are destroying our country, yet they are pressing down harder on the accelerator of a vehicle called "America," which has now gone off the edge of a cliff. It is like what happens in a cartoon, when one of the characters is running full speed away from something and can't stop in time and goes off the edge of the cliff and, for a moment or two, is suspended in midair, while the realization of where he is shows on his face. The last horrified words he utters are lost as gravity takes effect and he plummets to the ground, landing with a loud "Plop."

Miraculously, the cartoon character appears in the next scene, seemingly in perfect health despite falling a thousand feet to the ground. This works in cartoons, and does not work in the life of a country. Millions of horrified Americans are joining the Tea Party movement, as it becomes clear to them that we've gone off a cliff, time is up and the country is in free fall with the ground coming up fast.

With the country being driven away from the conservative values that made us great, the Democrats and President Obama are destroying the quality of our lives. Health care, the value of our money, crumbling infrastructure unnoticed and unattended, families destroyed when its wage earner loses a job and cannot find another, families living in a car when their home is foreclosed. Big government is on a rampage, stealing the wealth from the very people who built our greatness, restricting our movements and individual freedoms, scaring the hell out of us with periodic announcements of a coming devastating attack on "one of our cities, by someone we can't identify, at a time we cannot predict," but don't worry, WE'LL protect you. All you have to do is trust us. Yeah, sure. Thanks, Big Brother.

This is said on the front steps of a building that houses billions of dollars that are being shoveled out the back door into a long line of trucks with corporate names painted on their sides. A few billion gets shoveled into an agency called the TSA, which hires incompetent people not even qualified to bag groceries, to frisk everyone at our airports, or to sit at a screen of a super expensive snooping device that act like Superman's x-ray vision, and undresses us all to these mouth breathing louts.

Our rulers know that spending billions of dollars at our airports has gotten to its end game with the placing of these "x-ray" machines. They can't go any further than getting down to our skin, and they also know that the next attempt at blowing up an American plane may come from a woman suicide bomber whose breast implants are a form of plastic explosive. Take that, Uncle Sam, you and your expensive technologies. We need protection, yes, but it needs to be realistic protection. The Israeli's have been successful for decades, protecting their flying citizens without a TSA. Why not "go to school" on their efforts? Do what they do.

Angry Americans are waking up to the truths of what this Democrat controlled government is REALLY all about. It's all about control and the exercise of power over the people. It's all about creating a society that wrenches away control of our lives and puts it in the hands of a few power and money hungry elected officials. It's all about making us all "equal," with no reward for excellence but medals for the mediocre. It didn't work in the Soviet Union or China and it especially won't work here. Tea Party-ers know this and they are mad and won't take it any more. This amazing movement back to conservative values is spontaneous and widespread, too widespread for the little people in Washington to stamp out. It's a play coming to a theater near you. You should buy tickets to it.

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Strong Leaders

What ever happened to strong leaders? The kind that fought for, and built the greatest nation ever known. What ever happened to the kind of leaders, that made the right decisions; Even when they weren't the easy or popular ones? The kind of leader that understood the stakes, and made decisive moves in spite of them. The kind of leader, that didn't base his decisions on opinion polls, or popularity ratings.

It seems that today's leaders are more concerned with re-election than standing on the fundamental and sound judgment of those that built this great nation. From the oval office to the local school board; it seems today's politicians are more interested in buying a vote than earning the trust and respect of those, who elected them. We as a society should put more emphasis on the unwavering principles, of our elected officials. Focus less on what they can do for us, and concern ourselves with the content of their character, and what they as our elected leaders can do for this great nation.

I'm tired of watching snake oil salesmen, elected to office based on bumper stickers, and slick slogans. Each man has a moral code, they live by. If it doesn't include, a strong belief in freedom, liberty, independence, and individuality; then he has no place in office. An elected official should concern himself with the prosperity of his respective jurisdiction. It's not his place to make promises, that will be payed for, by the sweat of others.

Honesty, and common sense is what's lacking most, in American leaders.The American people, don't need empty promises, mixed with a little mindless rhetoric. What we need are results. What we need is for someone to make the hard decisions. Our country is going to hell in a hand basket, and our elected officials are still making promises that, we just can't keep.

Thank God somebody gets it. Thank God somebody understands, we can't just continue with this tax and spend mentality. Recently a man, by the name of Chris Christie was elected, by the people of New Jersey, to serve as governor. Governor Christie, appears to have the wherewithal to repair a broken state. A state, that per capita has the highest deficit in all of the United States.

Already, the governor has froze spending, as well as made many hard decisions on cutting programs, and program assistance. What amazes me is, if Mr. Christie, gets his way he will fix New Jersey, and he'll do it with a common sense approach. Where have people like this been hiding? While everyone else is out there spending, as if they've won the lottery.

Let's get back to the basics, in this country. Back to the fundamental principles that made our country, the greatest ever known. It is the strength, and ingenuity of the American people, that made us the economic leaders of the world. When you place the burden of over taxation on the entrepreneurial spirit of the American people; you stifle progress. Therefore slowing Economic growth.

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The Principles of Liberty - Principle 5

"All Things Were Created by God, Therefore upon Him All Mankind are Equally Dependent, and to Him They are Equally Responsible."

The Founders vigorously affirm throughout their writings that the foundation of all reality is the existence of the Creator who is the designer of all things in nature and the promulgator of all the laws that govern nature.

The Founders were in harmony with John Locke who said that a person who calls himself an 'atheist' is merely confessing that he has never dealt with the issue of the Creator's existence. Therefore Locke would say that an Atheist is out of touch with the most important and fundamental reality.

John Locke insists that everyone can know that there is a divine Creator. With Descartes each person can say "Cogito ergo sum'. With God, each person can say, "I AM!" Further more, each person knows that he is something. And something cannot be produced by nothing. Therefore what brought man and everything else into existence had to be something. In order for all of this organizing and arranging to be as such that it is, the Organizer would have to be all-knowing. The something would therefore have to be superior to everything which had resulted from this effort.

Locke taught that the Creator must be a cogitative being since man is cogitative. And that a non-cogitative being like a rock could never have produced a cogitative being like a man. Locke also taught that the Creator would reflect a sense of right and wrong, and a sense of indignation for violation of the law.

The American Founding Fathers agreed with Locke. They considered this truth as the most fundamental premise underlying ALL self-evident truth.

The Founding Fathers also relied on the writings of William Blackstone when it came to their foundation on God's revealed law. He stated that the will of God which is expressed in the orderly nature of the universe is called "the law of nature' and there are laws for human nature just as surely as they exist for the rest of the universe.

The Founders looked at the Creator as both intelligent and benevolent, and anxious and able to respond to people's petitions when they are deserving of needed blessings and engaged in a good cause.

Charles Bracelen Flood discovered in his research that during the Revolutionary War that there were at least sixty-seven desperate moments that George Washington acknowledged that he would have suffered disaster had not the hand of God intervened in behalf of the struggle for Independence. James Madison also acknowledged the hand of God during the Constitutional Convention.

We can now see that the Founders were quite sincere when they adopted the motto "In God we trust." And it is also now clear why they required all witnesses who testify to take an oath and swear before God that they will tell the truth.

In closing, a note from Tocqueville "A presiding judge remarked that he had not before been aware that there was a man living who did not believe in the existence of God; that this belief constituted the sanction (in law, that which gives binding force) of all testimony in a court of justice; and that he knew of no case in a Christian country where a witness had been permitted to testify without such belief."

In order to protect liberty, we must elect those who have a belief in God, specifically, that our rights are given by the Creator, therefore, our rights must be protected and not trampled on by man. We should not delegate to government rights that we do not have. We cannot force everyone to believe exactly as we do, and we should not empower the government to rob others on our behalf in anyway.

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President Obama Admits He is a Muslim

Could his Muslim faith be the reason he is so soft on terrorism? Why the underwear bomber has been given his Miranda Rights? And why the Administration wants to have Khalid Sheikh Mohammad tried in a New York Federal Court?

Did President Obama lie to the people of America from the beginning with regard to his faith? There is great temptation to lie when you are running for president and your country is at war with Muslim extremists. Is he just paying the people of America lip service? Do you want a man who will lie to you to be your president?

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Jobs, Jobs, Jobs - Where Do We Find Them? Is President Obama on Track?

We anticipated, waited, and listened intently to President Obama's State of the Union address to Congress. There is no question the President inherited a recession and near economic disaster. But he has been in office for over a year now and we all expected some positive results on employment - especially when the administration promised a net increase of 3.5 million jobs for $787,000,000,000 - the cost of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). The fact is, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, we have 5.2 million fewer people working at the beginning of 2010 compared to the beginning of 2009.

The administration's own report towards the end of last year (before they stopped issuing monthly reports) stated that 640,000 jobs were added or saved last year because of ARRA. If that was correct, then it cost the taxpayers a little over $1.2 million per job. To be fair, many ARRA projects are just getting underway, so if the projected 3.5 million jobs are actually added or saved then those jobs would "only" cost $225,000 a piece. Still an outrageous amount (if they materialize)!

Yet even the smaller jobs created/saved number for last year is suspect. Here in Colorado, for an example, Teletech reported last year that they added 4,231 new jobs from an ARRA contract award. That number was subsequently reduced to 635 full-time jobs because the rest of the jobs were temporary - less than two month - jobs. It was further reduced to only 34, because 601 jobs were actually added in other states. This places all of the administration's jobs numbers in question.

The government is very good at creating jobs for one (industry) in particular - the government, both federal and local. But this is exactly where we do not want jobs added, since our national debt is sky-high and rising, and most states are running massive deficits. We need jobs added in private tax-paying enterprises - hiring tax paying citizens.

So how do we start the new (meaningful) jobs engine? Like most Americans, I want our President to succeed - because as noted in the State of the Union address, it's not an I win, you lose - you win, I lose game we want to play. If the administration gets it right we all benefit. The President is correct to focus on small businesses, which have accounted for two-thirds of our job growth over the past 15 years and contribute one-half of our gross domestic product. His plans for tax credits and a shift of $30 billion to community banks for small business financing seem to be on track, but this should not have taken a year of pain and citizen uproar to enact. His freeze on all budgets of the executive branch (excluding Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, Defense, and Education) amounts to nothing more than a pinprick in the massive federal deficit.

What the President was spot on in his address, is the need for more and better education. We must bring back an emphasis on math and science to maintain our position vis-à-vis other economically powerful countries. Pell grants and other student loan guarantees are needed, but the "forgiveness" of student loans after 20 years seems more like a slight-of-hand. If the government wants to contribute to higher education, grant the money up front for successfully completing courses - not some complicated scheme of writing off loans down the road. What does that teach our students? And we as a country (politically correct or not) need to realize that not everyone wants, or has the aptitude for, a four year university education. That it should be perfectly acceptable for people to elect to be trained in a trade - and encouraged like they do in Europe and other parts of the world. These students need access to government guaranteed loans to develop these meaningful careers, as well.

Women are now getting 2 out of 3 college degrees and outnumber men on campuses. It is projected to further intensify in the next decade, with women getting 3 out of 4 degrees. Women are now one-half of the workforce and start two-thirds of all new small businesses. So naturally the President must include women's groups in his small business planning initiatives - and as he noted in his address, get women the equal pay they deserve.

The President, we hope, will keep pushing these promised (new) initiatives until they become law. And not lose sight of the focus the people have demanded - jobs, jobs, and jobs!

Richard S. Pearson is the Author of 5 Necessary Skills to Keep Your Career on Track. He has held vice-president positions with four multibillion dollar travel industry companies and three Internet early stage companies. He has a BA degree from Regis University in Organizational Development. His experience has given him a unique perspective on how to navigate the organizational structures of both large and small companies. He has hired and trained hundreds of employees from frontline salespeople to vice presidents, and coached many through their careers. He is currently working on facilitating the large increase of travel between the US and China, which is taking place.http://www.5necessaryskills.com Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Richard_S_Pearson http://www.pippoproducts.com/linkexchange.html

Why Scott Brown Became Republican Senator #41

The people of Massachusetts have spoken. With the defeat of Martha Coakley, the State attorney general, Scott Brown, a former state senator, has become the forty first republican vote in the U.S. Senate . Clearly the people of Massachusetts have sent a message to Washington. The defeat of the popular democrat in a largely democratic state has sent a chill up the spine of many incumbent democrats in this coming November election, as is evidenced by the quick reversal on pushing the health care bill through the House by Nancy Polosi.

But, how did Scott Brown delivery such a decisive defeat to Martha Coakley? Surly all politics are local, but in this case local and national came together to crate a political firestorm that caught Martha Coakley completely by surprise. She had campaigned, but not as vigorously as you should have, taking the race for granted as poles showed she had a substantial lead early on in the campaign. This laxity led her to making minor gaffs like her saying that Kurt Shilling, a form Red Sox pitcher, was a Yankee fan. But, the most significant reason for Scott Browns victory is that he did his home work. He talked to the people of Massachusetts and ran poles. In doing so he discovered a few things that steered his campaign to victory.

• The people of Massachusetts already have Health Care Reform and it is not going well there. The state is racking up massive deficits because of it and the people do not want the problem to become nation wide.

• The people are fearful of the Obama administration's lax approach toward terrorism. Repudiating Eric Holder decisions to have Khalid Sheikh Mohammed 's trial in the New York Federal Court and have underwear bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab tried in criminal court and not by military tribunal.

• The people were disenchanted with the political dealings of Nancy Polosi and Harry Reid in their attempt to negotiate a health care bill. The political buy offs of Senator Mary Landrieu of Louisiana and Senator Ben Nelson of Nebraska went against the peoples sense of fairness.

• The lack of transparency in the political process left the people out of the process and the people of Massachusetts understand that this is a government by the people and for the people so they were going to make sure their voice was heard in Washington. This was evidenced by the unusually high voter turnout.

With this knowledge Scott Brown shaped his campaign and developed the mantra "#41", vowing to stop the heath care bill and to protect the people of America. It resonated with the people and the rest is history. This was a victory for Scott Brown and a victory for democracy.

Joseph L. Conigliaro

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Solidarity With the First Black Republic of the World

The Haitian people live one of the worst nightmares on the Planet. The Island, a country in crisis for decades, was assaulted by an earthquake and has left much of Port-au-Prince's infrastructure in tatters. This metropolis is the capital and largest city, where there are up to four million people. There are not words to describe it. But is also the worst economic disaster to hit this Island since 1804. A country which is making enormous efforts to build a peaceful society, and where over 90 percent of the nation's population lives on less than one dollar a day.

The international organizations estimated that there are at least three million homeless and between 50, 000 and 100,000 persons dead. Over 10,000 buildings have been destroyed, including hospitals, schools, and hotels. In the last days, Haiti has moved from being one of the 25 poorest nations on Earth to being considered the world's poorest country, below many war-torn countries such as the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Afghanistan and Iraq.

From 1804 to the Present-day

The Republic of Haiti occupies the western third of Hispaniola, the second-largest island on the Caribbean (shares the Island with the Dominican Republic). It covers 10,700 square kilometers ( 27,750 km). This French-speaking Island is slightly larger than the state of New Hampshire. About 70 percent of the country's territory is made up of mountains. With over nine million inhabitants, it has one of the most ethnically homogeneous populations on the mainland of the Americas (98% of the population are of African descent). It is also one of the most densely populated countries in Latin America. More than 70 percent of Haiti's people live in rural areas.

Following more than 105 years under French rule, by the early 1800s, Haiti, led by Jean Jacques Dessalines, gained its national independence and was home to the first black republic in history. Soon afterwards, a monarchy was set up. Subsequently, it had been plagued by political violence and social instability. From the mid-1950s to the mid-2000s, the nation's post-independence history had been written by dictators and anti-democratic warlords, which had plundered the Island's economy. At the same time, the Caribbean Island had 19 presidents and seven coups (1950-1997). In 1957 there were six Heads of State: Joseph Nemours Piere-Louis, Frank Sylvain, Leon Cantave, Daniel Fignole, Antoine Kebreau, and Francois Duvalier (also known as "Papa Doc").

Haiti hence became one of the world's least-developed countries. As a result, the Island boasted one of the world's lowest standards of living in the latter half of the 20th century, along with Zimbabwe, Zaire and Liberia. But that was not all. There are other legacies from the past. Due to political corruption and economic mismanagement, this Caribbean Island is still considered among the world's three most corrupt nations. On the other side, by the 1980s, it boasted one of the world's highest rates of HIV/AIDS infection. In the 21st century Haiti holds one of the developing world's most fragile democracies. The Caribbean nation has received more money per capita to promote democracy than any country in the world (equivalent to $ 38 for each Haitian), including Sudan, Burma and Belarus.

International Solidarity

But the Island is not alone. This French-speaking country has a number of friends in the world. Having obtained the full support of the United States: more than $100 million in aid. In Peru, on January 14, 2010, the nation's ruler Alan Garcia Perez decreed a day of national mourning. In the meantime, Haiti and the People's Republic of China don't have diplomatic ties, but Beijing has sent economic aid to Port-au-Prince.

Finally, Haiti's architect Albert Magones once said: "Because independence came early Haiti is unique in history, going directly from slavery to nationhood. That achievement gave us a sense of knowing who we are. We joke about ourselves; we criticize ourselves; sometimes we even despite ourselves..."

Alejandro Guevara Onofre: Freelance writer. Alejandro is author of a host of articles/essays about over 220 countries and dependencies (and American States as well), from ecology, history, tourism and national heroes to Olympic sports, foreign relations, and wildlife. In addition, he has published some books on women's rights, among them "History of the Women in America" and "Famous Americans." Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Alejandro_Guevara_Onofre http://www.pippoproducts.com

The Principles of Liberty - Principle 4

"Without Religion the Government of a Free People Cannot be Maintained."

Many people today fail to realize the importance that the Founding Fathers felt religion played in the structure of the American Civilization that they hoped would emerge as the first free people of modern times. They felt that religion would be as important to us today, as it was to them then.

In 1787, the same year that the Constitution was written and approved by congress, they passed the Northwest Ordinance, which emphasized the essential need to teach religion and Morality in schools. Here is how they worded it:

"Article 3: religion, Morality, and Knowledge being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall forever be encourage."

George Washington, in his farewell address said, "Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports... And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion...Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail to the exclusion of religious principle. It is substantially true that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government."

In order to avoid divisive religious teachings, Jefferson wrote a bill for Establishing Elementary Schools in Virginia that made religion a unifying cultural adhesive. It stated, "No religious reading, instruction, or exercise shall be prescribed or practiced inconsistent with any religious sect or denomination." So, the religious tenets in public schools would have been what was universally accepted by all faiths and fundamental in their premises.

Benjamin Franklin gave five fundamental points to be taught in the schools.

1. There is a Creator who made all things and mankind should recognize and worship Him.
2. The Creator revealed a moral code of behavior for happy living that distinguishes right from wrong.
3. The Creator will hold us accountable for how we treat each other.
4. All mankind live beyond this life.
5. In the next life mankind are judged for their conduct in this one.

The Founders often referred to these five fundamentals as the religion of America. Samuel Adams said that is group of basic beliefs constitute 'the religion of America and is the religion of all mankind." John Adams called these tenets the general principles on which the American Civilization was founded. America became great, because America was good. When America is no longer good then we can expect that the nation will cease to be great.

How can we insure that we are a free people? We elect leaders that are willing to support and defend religious freedom, that acknowledge that we are given our rights as a gift from God, and that they are not legislated away. We seek for those that are virtuous, lovely, have a good reputation, and have done much for liberty on their own, seeking not for power or money. Those who are already serving for FREE within our communities. George Washington served without pay because he knew how great a cause of liberty is. Not that our leaders should not have compensation, but we should seek for wise men and women to be our leaders, and not just accept the lesser of the two evils handed to us.

Charity Angel is an author, singer, political activist, small business owner, and an online business coach. Find more of her thoughts Here. Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Charity_Angel http://www.pippoproducts.com/business/index.html