Logan Daily Column-6-16-10, Bob Weedy

We are completely lost to our own history. The more things change the worse they get. The liberal progressives, sometimes called the revolutionaries, are dissatisfied with the progress of their agenda; they want more. We now have at least a half dozen of them working in the White House! They are intending to send their people into the streets with an ‘in your face’ message. What we thought was big government, keeps getting bigger. Also, there are now thirteen government agencies dealing with the Gulf oil spill, with poor results. Bureaucracy at its worst!

Huge amounts of money have been spent by the Federal Government with the idea that jobs would be created, also with very poor results. Government and public employees have gotten good paying jobs, but not the ordinary worker. The high burden of providing health care to employees as required by the new health care bill, which two-thirds of Americans do not want, is a damper on hiring new employees. This is especially true for small business owners who are the ones who create the most new jobs.

Our Founding Fathers committed their lives and sacred honor to secure freedom for every colonist, and that at a very high price. States rights and individual rights and freedoms were their high priority. The Tea Party group, with small government and low taxes, most closely matches thinking of the Founders. The philosophy now is ‘not to let a crisis stand in the way of accomplishing a radical change in our nation’. Today we are choosing serfdom, not by waging any war, but by failing to follow the same principles of life and morality that all those faithful leaders gave to us as examples.

We now have the announcement that the U. S. Constitution is being published by the Wilder Publishing Co. with a warning label, or disclaimer. They felt this was needed because it is a “product of its time and does not reflect the same values as those of today.” Wow! We now have someone who is willing to put into print what many of us have been saying for many, many decades: “we have not been following our Constitution.” We have folks in office who do not like the restrictions on their power to do what ‘they’ want to do. Amazon.com was first to reveal the disclaimer.

Creation of jobs faces a steep uphill climb because, as the Federal Reserve has just acknowledged, “only a modest improvement in the economy has resulted from recent efforts.” With the Cap and Trade bill already in the U. S. Senate have they wondered how all that extra cost to consumers will further block improvement in job creation? An even greater disappointment comes with the word that the National debt will reach 19 trillion dollars in the year 2014, up from the 13 trillion dollars debt of today. The 19 trillion dollars is a figure that is larger than our economy. So much for the idea that we can still afford to pay our debt, regardless of how much Congress spends. China is sure going to like that. They will want triple the interest rate they are getting now; or they likely will sell their bonds way before 2014.

Remember now, Europe is in shambles economically. Greece has been bankrupt and given funds to escape total collapse. Spain, a much larger economy than Greece, is unable to fund the obligations it has agreed to pay. Spain’s government is attempting to negotiate lower payments to its people; which may not be successful. So it is with socialist governments. If Americans do not soon waken up it will be impossible to stem our own drift into socialism. Who then will bail out our friends in Europe? Who will bail us out? Certainly a great many Americans regret the vote in November, 2008. Crying over spilled milk will not get the job done—profiting from our mistakes can be the best remedy.

This is not a fun column to write, but “We The People” can not go on daydreaming! This is all right before our eyes. We have brought this upon ourselves. We have had better upbringing. I am not screaming “fire” in a crowded theater, but I have, on occasion, been able to read the handwriting on the wall.