Hell, no!

Greece has  voted NO  in the referendum,  the EURO has fallen sharply,  and everyone is running around with their hair on fire.   Am I supposed to be surprised that the Euro-zone is a failure?   Should I be astonished that the Greek government,  which doesn’t go after tax scofflaws,  and pays exorbitant pensions,  is broke?

Well,  I am not.   Finer economic minds than mine predicted this from the beginning,  and we are all surprised only by how long it took.   The only reason the USA isn’t technically broke is that it continues to print money, which has lost 95% of its value in the past fifty years.   When Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders and the rest of the Democrats call for more taxes on the rich and corporations, they never admit that if the government took the value of every asset owed by the “rich”,  it still would not be enough to pay off our debt.

If you don’t want to be Greece in twenty years,  or Venezuela,  you’d better vote in people who can accomplish simple math,  have balls and a backbone,  and have principles stiffer than pudding.

 

July 4, 2015…Part II

Debby Witt from The Corner offers an  assortment  of interesting links.   If you haven’t read or re-read the Declaration of Independence lately,  you can do  so here.    Don’t be fooled  — the 56 men  who signed  this document literally risked their lives,  their fortunes,  and their honor by affixing their signatures.   Some lost the first two,  many  the second,  but none forfeited their honor.   Was it one of those brave men who left a handprint on  the document?

George Washington didn’t have many battle victories,  but he responded correctly to each phase of the war,  meaning he  understood strategy  well,  a skill our current president sorely lacks.   Mr. Obama is also clueless about the historical context of the Declaration.   Thomas Jefferson most certainly  was not.

FDR’s  four freedoms  may have been good politics in a stirring speech,  but it veered away from our Founders’ vision to some extent.   David Limbaugh urges us  not to  give up on this grand experiment of a nation,  and Andrew Klavan tells us conservative-minded citizens to  toughen  up and get on with it.   Walter Williams points out that the Founders intended for the  Second Amendment  to enable citizens to protect themselves against government tyranny.

Being an American is the greatest gift possible.   You should be grateful for that privilege and ask for nothing more than the opportunity to make that blessing work for you and your family.   Watch the Hillsdale College choir sing  America the Beautiful and soak in gratitude.   Then see the video just  released by former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and violinist Jenny Oaks Baker of Amazing Grace.   The music video ends with the phrase, “May the grace of God continue to shine on lovers of freedom everywhere.”   Amen.