Soap Box

A lot has changed for me in the past few years, and one of the major changes is how I view things. I have taken a large interest in our constitutional rights and the freedoms we posses in our country. Today, steps are being taken to take those rights away and I am fed up.

In light of the Colorado massacre, President Obama is taking matters into his own hands to limit gun control and slowly slip our freedom away from us. According to him, we have the right to bear arms, but only certain arms. The government is about to take action to tell us which guns we are allowed to have and which we aren't.

Over the past few years we as American's are being told more and more what we are allowed to do and not do, what we should have and not have. It is both political parties doing so. I am not trying to place blame on one or the other.. it is all of them.

I really wish good old Thomas Jefferson and the other founding fathers were here to straighten things out!

Here are a few quotes that need to be resurfaced and used again in our political system.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

THOMAS JEFFERSON, Declaration of Independence

A government must govern, must prescribe and enforce laws within its sphere or cease to be a government. Moreover, the individual must be independent and free within his own sphere or cease to be an individual. The fundamental question ... is now, and always will be through what adjustments, by what actions, these principles may be applied.

CALVIN COOLIDGE, speech, May 30, 1924

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.

GEORGE WASHINGTON, attributed, Upton Sinclair's The Cry for Justice

Governments have a tendency not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.

RONALD REAGAN

Government is not the solution to our problem. Government is the problem.

RONALD REAGAN, First Inaugural Address, January 20, 1981

Okay, I am off of my soap box now.