The New Agenda for America... are you listening GOP candidates?
Christianity, Self - sufficiency, nationalism, concern for home first... by Mark Vogl
(conservative)
Monday, December 12, 2011
This is what we want, do we get it, or is it time to consider leaving ? Not leaving our homes, leaving the union!
The problems America faces today are not Obama's, they are the result of two Bush's, one Clinton, and Obama. They go further back to FDR, Teddy Roosevelt, and even Abraham Lincoln. Today's problems revolve around the mentality of England and the rest of Europe, the Europe we left generations ago. The Europe which drove average people to risk all, including their families to make the dangerous voyage in small, wooden leaky craft from the ports of Europe to the wilderness of the America's ! It seems only the Americans of the United States were blessed with a generation of men able to see that freedom to know God through the Bible, and independent of any church, was the key to creating the most prosperous most successful people in all of history. But the colleges originally conceived and built to facilitate reading the Bible, the Ivy League, are now the center of gravity of all that is destroying America.
America is failing, and yet the road to success is clear, unmistakable and easily described.
First, we need to regain our moral compass. We need to re-embrace the God who brought us here, and who laid out the plan for the creation of the world's greatest nation. This is not to say we need a national religion. Absolutely not, we don't need that. America was founded on religious freedom! Not freedom from religion, but freedom to practice religion, to embrace God, to have Him as the foundation of our individuality. Yes, the separate colonies did have favored religions, and to be honest, it would not be a bad thing for states to have them today. But not a federal central religion, and not a religion which dominates even a state, so much as represents the majority.
For example, Utah as a Mormon state is not a bad thing. Not that you had to be Mormon to live there, just that's the practice to the majority of the people. You see a confederation of states allowed for diversity within the nation, but also the safety and predictability of “knowns” within each state. If you didn't like your state you could move. Today, because of the Supreme Court, and the consolidation and centralization of power we don't have the freedom we once had.
Christianity, not a denomination, but a belief in the Christian God must be re-established. We have been a Christian people since we first arrived. It was Christianity which laid out our principles, and our character. And, it is President Obama, and others, who now deny that reality. George Washington and many of the other founding fathers proclaimed the need for the Bible as a foundational rock for our nation. Humanity is too inconsistent and too flawed to establish right and wrong. Ask the fifty million souls aborted as a result of Roe v. Wade about right to life? Ask the African Americans about slavery. Right and wrong is not something left for debate and compromise. Right is right, and God has told what it is.
This election must first be about our reclaiming our Christian heritage.
Second, we need to set an economic goal of self-sufficiency across the broadest spectrum of natural resources, goods and services. We need to develop, refine and use our own natural resources. Whether this be more costly than foreign oil, or gas is to be seen, but if it is, the money spent should remain in America, to be re-invested here. We need to take back what was the richest market in the world. We must reinvent the high wage blue collar production jobs, and to do this means we must elevate physical labor to an important contribution to our society. Colleges and universities were not the incubators for the most ingenious, productive and creative men in American history. Lincoln went to no university. Milton Hershey did not go to high school! To artificially raise the worth of formal education has destroyed the value of physical labor, and the ability to create with one's hands.
America must inventory its agricultural production and ensure we remain a bread basket for the world. For generations the cost of food remained low providing an opportunity for even the poorest to have some degree of discretionary income. And good quality food meant better health.
America must shift its economic priority from mass production, to quality and unique production. Items should not all be made the same, but custom ordered, or made with varying degrees of quality. Plastic destroyed craftsmanship! And markets within the United States should be regionalized, not centralized. These steps would by definition create jobs. States should assume regulatory authority, and the federal government should be dismantled in many ways, beginning with the Department of Education. Savings should be re-instituted as a means for purchase, rather then credit. Credit is an enslaving tool, which takes away the freedom of the individual. There should be some credit available to an individual, but it should not be so available as to establish the condition of permanent indebtedness. And college should not be an expense which robs the income of our youth as they face the challenge of marriage and raising a family.
Nationalism should regain its central place in our life. Citizenship, local, state and national, should once again be a foundation of our nation. Assimilation into the American culture should be a pre-requisite to citizenship, and this assimilation should be in the form of acceptance of the American concepts of democracy, the republic form of government, capitalism, individualism and the importance of family and faith.
Our foreign policy, and domestic policies should focus on the United States without question. Allies are allies, not states in the union. Our first loyalty is to God, than family, state, nationalism, and lastly humanity. Our priority is here. The world is composed of something more than 200 nations, and we are one of those nations. We are not the ruler of the world, the center of an empire. We are one nation. Our priority must be our own people. Once we have rebuilt our nation we will be in a stronger position to help those less fortunate, but what we are doing right now is draining our strength, and destroying our nation. All this must stop.
Folks, we are celebrating, or remembering, the 150th Anniversary (the Sesquicentennial) of our own civil war. The original founding fathers, both north and south, accepted the right of secession as an important regulator of central power. If a state could leave peacefully, the union would have to work to retain its states from leaving! This promise was forfeit when President Lincoln rejected the concept of “consent of the governed” for union permanence at any price.
That policy was the first step towards the shredding of the liberties articulated in the Declaration and protected by the Constitution. Now, with the unrepentant bankrupting of the United States, the powers-that-be are introducing the strong forces of capitalism into the political question of the continuance of this nation. If steps are not taken to fundamentally roll back the assumed powers of the federal government, the life of this nation is not long. Only massive deficit reduction through a massive curtailment of spending at the federal level can hope to provide the environment for private sector driven economic rehabilitation.
You neo conservatives, liberals, and Ivy Leaguers toy with what you think not a possibility, but history is filled with the unexpected.
So will those who joust for the office of President of the United States have the vision to see that our present course is not perilous but rather disastrous!? Will our next President campaign on a new course, a course back to the America first created? Time will tell.
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