Unemployment benefits have been extended eight times in two years!A two thousand page health care bill passed through the US Congress without thorough examination. Nancy Pelosi publicly stated that in order for us (read: congress and the public) to know what’s in the bill, it first had to be passed. What is she smoking? Does she believe the American public is naïve?

A 2300-page financial bill also passed through congress without proper scrutiny.

Unemployment benefits have been extended eight times in two years!

Sick and tired of being overrun by some 400,000 illegal aliens crossing into their state each year, pilfering their land, and smuggling drugs, Arizonans took matters into their own hands seeing as the feds under one administration or another have been derelict in duty. For that, the state is being sued by our commander in chief. What’s wrong with this picture?

Does it befuddle you that in the worst recession of our lifetime the feds want to raise taxes January 1, 2011? When the Bush tax cuts expire at the end of this year, taxes on dividends, capital gains, and estates will more than double.

Despite the fact that “global warming,” “global cooling,” “climate change”—whatever the misconception de jur—has been invalidated, this administration is charging ahead with a cap and trade proposal that will have no significant affect on the environment but a hugely negative affect on our wallets and ultimately our way of life.

Do you think only the “rich” will be affected by all these tax increases? The ruling class would like us to believe that taking more money from the producers in this country will somehow stimulate the economy? When in history has this ever worked?

Are they nuts or do the “elites” have an ulterior agenda? Does it not seem obvious that there’s a move afoot in Washington, propagated by the media, to pit Americans against each other: poor against rich, black against white, minority against majority? This is what the elite call “progressive”?

W. Cleon Skousen’s 1981 book, The 5000 Year Leap, The 28 Great Ideas That Changed the World, outlines the principles upon which this country, this great experiment in self-government (republicanism) was built. It was universally acknowledged among the thirteen colonies that a corrupt and selfish people could never sustain self-rule. Benjamin Franklin wrote, “Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.” (p. 49)

Addressing the future of this country, John Adams noted, “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” (p. 56)

Samuel Adams concurred, saying public officials should not be chosen if they are lacking in experience, training, proven virtue, and demonstrated wisdom. (p. 60)

As early as 1777, Franklin addressed the issue of salaries noting that compared to Europe, American salaries were extremely low. “The honor of serving the public ably and faithfully is deemed sufficient.” Ten years later, at the Constitutional Convention, Franklin warned that high salaries were a sure way to attract scoundrels and drive from public service those men who possess true merit and virtue. (p. 65)

Where’s the virtue in Speaker Pelosi’s $100,000+ liquor bill?Now tell me, where’s the virtue in Speaker Pelosi’s $100,000+ liquor bill? Where’s the virtue in over $35 million worth of expired plane tickets the feds let go to waste? We can cite numerous examples of waste at all levels of government from both sides of the aisle. This is what we get when we elect people who never ran a business or got their hands dirty from honest hard work—people who possess an attitude of entitlement.

At the Constitutional Convention Franklin expressed deep concern that associating public office with high salaries and perks could result in a monarchy:

“As all history informs us, there has always been in every state and kingdom a constant kind of warfare between the governing and the governed, the one striving to obtain more for its support, and the other to pay less. And this has alone occasioned great convulsions, actual civil wars, ending either in dethroning of the princes or enslaving of the people. Generally, indeed, the ruling power carries its point, and we see the revenues of princes constantly increasing, and we see that they are never satisfied, but always in want of more. The more the people are discontented with the oppression of taxes, the greater need the prince has of money to distribute among his partisans, and pay the troops that are to suppress all resistance, and enable him to plunder at pleasure.” (p. 68)

Franklin’s fear that an executive with monarchial powers could one day rule America was fueled by his observation of mankind’s natural inclination toward kingly government.

Today, 37 czars answer to our executive branch. No other president amassed near as many czars since the practice of such appointments began in 1933 with Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Chew on that comrade.