Well stated Sir, my hope is that everyone who reads this will forward to friends and neighbors, as well as the congress critters in your state, along with county, city, and local governments...

...Our Founders understood that such self-interest would undermine Liberty.

John Hancock wrote, “Suffer not yourselves to be betrayed, by the soft arts of luxury and effeminacy, into the pit digged for your destruction. ... I thank God that America abounds in men who are superior to all temptation, whom nothing can divert from a steady pursuit of the interest of their country, who are at once its ornament and safeguard.”

Irrevocably linked to the rights ensured by constitutional Rule of Law is economic Liberty.

In 1916, an outspoken advocate for Liberty, a Presbyterian minister named William J. H. Boetcker, published a tract entitled “The Ten Cannots.” It fittingly contrasts the competing political and economic agendas of the Right and Left in our modern era:

“You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.

“You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.

“You cannot help the poor man by destroying the rich.

“You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.

“You cannot build character and courage by taking away man’s initiative and independence.

“You cannot help small men by tearing down big men.

“You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.

“You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than your income.

“You cannot establish security on borrowed money.

“You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they will not do for themselves.”

Simply put, the central government cannot give to anybody what it does not frst take from somebody else.

Nineteenth century historian Alexis de Tocqueville once observed, “Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word: equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in Liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.”

Tocqueville was commenting on Liberty and free enterprise, American style, versus socialism as envisioned by emerging protagonists of centralized state governments. And he saw on the horizon a looming threat — a threat that would challenge freedoms writ in the blood and toil of our nation’s Founders and generations since.

So what’s a Patriot to do?
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