MOVING THE SPIRIT OF AMERICA FORWARD

 

 By Maj. Gen. Jerry R. Curry (Ret'd)

By nature, design and choice America is the land of the free and the home of the brave, the home of “We the People.”  That’s the point Patrick Henry was making when he rhetorically asked, “Is life so dear is peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it Almighty God!”

He was saying that Americans should refuse to surrender their individual freedoms and liberties without first fighting to the death. He would never have agreed to today’s corrupt politicians and bureaucrats who exercise a seeming divine right to rule over us. 

Wittingly or unwittingly these political manipulators more and more control our lives and actions and overwhelm us with such a sense of futility that it grounds down our spirits and ushers in social chaos. That is what happens when they force through Congress and down our throats unaffordable and unsustainable legislation like healthcare, with all it’s yet to be identified shortcomings and ramifications. Meanwhile, they are driving the nation so far into debt and economic crises that avoiding systemic failure may become impossible.

They seem to hope that We the American People will become so overwhelmed by the plethora of unworkable programs and legislation that they are bombarding us with that we will voluntarily surrender our liberty and freedom to their control. They seem to intend to so beleaguer us that in futility we finally cry out, “Please rule over us and sort out our problems for us and keep us from disaster, for only you the government can save us.”

Forcing an unsustainable healthcare plan on Americans is only the first social engineering step in a dark, insidious strategy to turn the United States into a socialist/Marxist dictatorship which is permanently kept in power by tens of millions of voters who are made so dependent they can’t survive without big government hand outs. Their ranks are further swelled by tens of millions of illegal immigrants who can permanently remain in this country only so long as they vote to keep in power the political party that sanctions illegal immigration, and by more and more government workers who can never lose their jobs so long as they vote to keep their political patrons in power.

Tens of millions of Black and poor Americans think they can rely on their welfare checks, food stamps and other government hand outs only so long as they vote to keep in power the party of welfare and big government. It is circular, the big government party remains in power only so long as its voters remain loyal, and the voters remain loyal so long as they are kept dependent on big government for their survival. 

This is insanity. We must not allow this great, extraordinary country -- this shining city on a hill -- to be destroyed by those who want to remake our nation into an image that would be unrecognizable to the George Washington's, Benjamin Franklins and Abraham Lincolns.

These great men would never have approved of whole cities and sections of our nation made dependent on government largess, of government legislating American morality, or of it telling our citizens where they are permitted to live, the kind of housing they can live in, the type of cars and trucks they can buy and drive, and under the guise of protecting the environment and the greening of energy prescribe the kind and quality of food our citizens eat, and the kind of light bulbs they can buy. These corrupt power elites want to control what is taught to our children in school, to set limits on how much money citizens can earn and the type and cost of the medical care they can receive, to establish an agenda that makes most of the people’s and the private sector’s decisions for them plus tells them what is acceptable to believe and what is not. 

Today, from Maine to Florida, from Texas to Alaska and Hawaii there are masses of Americans who feel the spirit of our Founders welling up inside of them, telling them that the nation’s main focus today should be on creating jobs…blue collar jobs…white collar jobs.

Providing an economic climate under which the private sector can readily and steadily grow jobs, plus getting the nation’s debt and finances under control isn’t as hard to do as some bureaucrats and politicians would have us believe.

First, we must determine in our hearts to press leaders to put principle above politics, to put the interests of the United States above personal interests, to recognize that there is a difference between good spending and bad, that spending to renew infrastructure such as roads and bridges is good, and spending to increase the size of the federal bureaucracy and government is bad.

Second, we must get government spending, regulation and the narcotics of entitlements under control. This means the federal government has to emulate private citizens and the private sector to live within its means and budget and not spend more than the government has in its accounts. It must balance the nation’s books and introduce structural reforms in a way and using a timeline that does not wreck the economy in the short term..

Third, we must remove the shackles of restricted energy production from ANWAR in Alaska to the Atlantic and Pacific shores, to the Gulf of Mexico.

Fourth, the President needs to declare a state of National Emergency and direct the Secretary of Defense to take whatever actions are necessary to gain control of our borders and bring illegal immigration under control, within 90 days.

Fifth, the Congress should outlaw the practice of Muslim Sharia law throughout the United States and not allow it to gain the slightest foothold in our judicial system.

These five steps are not easy to take, but they are doable. Their successful implementation will take us far along the road toward regaining national sanity, solvency, self-control, and toward re-introducing our citizens to the blessings of liberty and good, responsible government.

Over the years Congress has repeatedly demonstrated that it can and will wastefully spend the nation’s money without regard for responsible stewardship or political party. Both Congress and the White House need a good, strong dose of our Founders’ spirit, the Spirit of America – right now. 

Since neither Congress nor our President seem capable of doing it, it falls to We the People to lead the nation back to being the Shining City on a Hill that God intended. The Declaration of Independence puts it this way, “Whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it.”

“Maj. Gen. Jerry R. Curry (USA Ret.) D. Min. is a decorated combat veteran who has served his country both in the military and as a presidential appointee, author of ‘From Private to General’ (Believe Books) and Chairman of the American Conservative Council.”