Sunday, December 20, 2009 "Washington on Government"

Sunday, December 20, 2009

Government bailout and control of private companies and private banks, government control of health care, government taxed cap and trade legislation. Trillion dollars of debt and the expansion of government the like of which never before in American history. Is this what our founders desired? Is this to be the sum total of their efforts? Are we serving the purpose of the United States Constitution which they gave us as an inheritance? Are we continuing the dream that was birthed in their hearts, earned with their deeds, and purchased with their blood? I simply ask you to look around and judge.

“Much to be regretted indeed would it be, were we to neglect the means and depart from the road which Providence has pointed us to, so plainly; I cannot believe it will ever come to pass. The Great Governor of the Universe has led us too long and too far . . . to forsake us in the midst of it . . . .

We may, now and then, get bewildered; but I hope and trust that there is good sense and virtue enough left to recover the right path.” - George Washington, June 29, 1788.

“And of fatal tendency . . . to put, in the place of the delegated will of the Nation, the will of a party; often a small artful and enterprising minority . . . . they are likely, in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the Power of the People and to usurp for themselves the reins of Government; destroying afterward the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion . . . .

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The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments into one, and thus to create, whatever the form of government, a real despotism . . . . by unnecessarily parting with what ought to have been retained, and by exciting jealously, ill-will, and deposition to retaliate . . . . it or sacrifice the interests of their own country, without odium, sometimes even with popularity: gilding with the appearances of a virtuous sense of obligation, commendable deference for public opinion, or a laudable zeal for public good, the base or foolish compliances of ambition, corruption or infatuation . . . .

It opens the doors to foreign influence and corruption, which facilitates access to the Government itself through the channels of party passions. Thus the policy and the will of one country, are subjected to the policy and will of another.” - George Washington, September 19, 1796

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Could this apply to us today, you decide,
David