Wow, and here it is another new week to enjoy and experience, hope you do and will, all to good, of course. Today will complete the North Korea presentation, and hope it provided some new insight for you on the Korea Peninsula situation. And to repeat, the contents herein are from the most recent monthly Newsletter published by Hillsdale College, and written by Ass't Professor Sung-yoon Lee of Tufts University.
If you will remember, we are up to the part where the United States had stopped Japan's aggression through China, and Korea and had advanced into Manchuria, when they were defeated by the USA at Pearl Harbor etc.,and the Allies had partitioned the Korean Peninsula at the 38th Parallel. And Now.......
The United States, in control of defeated Japan and the southern half of liberated Korea, now emerged as the key shaper of geopolitics in Northeast Asia. But after governing South Korea from 1945 to 1948, and despite lingering misgivings about North Korea intentions, the U.S. began to withdraw troops from the South. By the summer of 1949, it had returned to a policy of benign neglect. At this point Kim Il Sung, father of the current North Korean leader, Kim Jong Il -- took advantage of the power vacuum and launched an invasion of the South. This attempt to unify the Korean Peninsula under communist control was thwarted by a multinational coalition led by the United States, and South Korea was saved.
In the 57 years since the armistice, North Korea has time and again shown its willingness to take considerable risks to turn the strategic environment in its favor. The sinking of the Cheonan, a South Korean naval ship, in March of this year, and the bombing of a South Korean island on November 23, are but the latest in a long history of deadly attacks. But today the North Korean regime faces its most serious internal political challenges in nearly 20 years; severe economic stresses, the increasing infiltration of information, higher numbers of its citizens attempting to defect to the South, and the challenge of handing over dynastic power from a long-ruling father to an unproves son in his twenties.
This uncertain situation presents a rare opportunity for policymakers in Washington, Seoul, and Tokyo to bring about changes in the North Korean regime and to ensure peace and stability in the region. Engaging the North Korean people --rather than the regime -- by means of information operations and facilitating defections, while simultaneously constricting Pyongyang's cash flow, is best means to that end. It's also important for Washington to hold quiet consultations with Beijing to prepare jointly for a unified Korea under Seoul's direction, a new polity that will be free, peaceful capitalist, pro U.S. and pro-China.
In an Orwellian world, "war is peace, freedom is slavery and ignorance is strength". In the North Korean world, the past 57 years of defacto peace is war, a life of servitude to the state is freedom, and national strength is rooted in ignorance of the outside world. Today, as trouble is once again brewing on the Korean Peninsula, we would do well to remember the noble resolve of those who fought back the North Korean invasion in 1950-53 and the precious gift they left behind: and extended period of peace and prosperous South Korea. Those courageous soldiers taught us that deterrence is peace, freedom is not free, and that to remember the past is a mark of mational character and strength.
The great and noble efforts of Americans in the Korean War, the legacy of a 60-year friendship between the U.S. and South Korea, and U.S. strategic interests should not now be sacrificed on the altar of diplomatic peace. Now is rather the time for prudent and pragmatic peace. Now is rather the time for prudent and pragmatic policymakers to pave the way for a permanent peace of the Korean Peninsula, and, in so doing, to pay the greatest honor possible to all those who served in a war -- often referred to by historians as "The Forgotten War" -- that is decidedly forgotten no more.
Thas' all folks, from me here in sunny and warming Bradenton, Fl., and I do seriously trust everyone's week will by, above, HAPPY. Cheers CJ
Monday, January 31, 2011
Friday, January 28, 2011
RELIGION or POLITICS ??? About North Korea, did you Know?
Hello friends, and a happy TGIF to you all. I continue with the second section about North Korea from yesterday, and of course it comes from the Newsletter IMPRIMIS, published by Hillsdale College, and written by Sung-Yoon Lee, ass't professor from Tufts University.
It is granted that it is possible a peace treaty might be conducive to reconsiliation between the two Koreas and stability in the region; but this will be the case only if it does not lead to calls for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from South Korea. What is more likely is that such a treaty would cause all sides -- not only North koreans, but South Koreans and Americans, too -- to question the need for a continued U.S. presence in Korea. And thiswould in turn advance a top priority on the North Korean state; the complete and irreversible removal of US troops from South Korea. Considering the size of North Korea's military and its stocks of both conventional and nuclear weapons, the results would likely be disastrous.
The presence of US troops in South Korea has been and remains the greatest deterrent to North Korean adventurism and a disruption of the current and longstanding peace on the Korean peninsula. And to repeat an important point: the absence of a formal peace treaty no more threatens this peace than the absence of a post World War Two peace treaty between Moscow and Tokyo threatens the peace between Russia and Japan.
But does Korea even matter, from America's strategic point of view? Consider the lessons of four other wars in and around Korea in the 60-year period leadingup to l950; the First Sino-Japanese War (1894-95)m the First Russo-Japanese War (1904-05), the Second ino-Japanese War (1937-45), and the Pacific War (1941-45). In each of these, Japan was the principal actor, driven by a desire to change the geopolitical setting in its favor. And taken together, these earlier conflicts powerfully reinforce the lesson of the Korena War itself: a power vacuum in Korean War itself; a power vacuum in Korea is an invitation to aggression.
By defeating China in 1895, Japan won Taiwan as its first colony and effectively ended the centuries-old Chinese world order. By defeating Russia in 1905, Japan won international recognition of its "paramount political, military and economic interests in Korea", as enshrined in the Treaty of Portsmouth. By 1937, Japan was in full control of its Korean colony and prepared to utilize the Korean peninsula as a supply base and military platform for invading China. Lacking strategic interests in Northeast Asia, the U.S. stood by as Japan gobbled up Korea and advanced into Manchuria. But Japan's military successes peaked at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1041, and it was defeated in August 1945. By then, the geopolitical importance of Korea was not lost on the victorious allies, who paritioned the peninsula at the 38th Parallel .
That does it for this week. I will be some of you didn't know about Japan and it's wars with China and
Russia. Well now you can tie in your history before Pearl Harbor and why and how Japan got too big
for it's britches. Do you suppose history will repeat itself with, you know who? And I don't mean
China. As always, time will tell. See y'all monday. Cheers CJ
It is granted that it is possible a peace treaty might be conducive to reconsiliation between the two Koreas and stability in the region; but this will be the case only if it does not lead to calls for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from South Korea. What is more likely is that such a treaty would cause all sides -- not only North koreans, but South Koreans and Americans, too -- to question the need for a continued U.S. presence in Korea. And thiswould in turn advance a top priority on the North Korean state; the complete and irreversible removal of US troops from South Korea. Considering the size of North Korea's military and its stocks of both conventional and nuclear weapons, the results would likely be disastrous.
The presence of US troops in South Korea has been and remains the greatest deterrent to North Korean adventurism and a disruption of the current and longstanding peace on the Korean peninsula. And to repeat an important point: the absence of a formal peace treaty no more threatens this peace than the absence of a post World War Two peace treaty between Moscow and Tokyo threatens the peace between Russia and Japan.
But does Korea even matter, from America's strategic point of view? Consider the lessons of four other wars in and around Korea in the 60-year period leadingup to l950; the First Sino-Japanese War (1894-95)m the First Russo-Japanese War (1904-05), the Second ino-Japanese War (1937-45), and the Pacific War (1941-45). In each of these, Japan was the principal actor, driven by a desire to change the geopolitical setting in its favor. And taken together, these earlier conflicts powerfully reinforce the lesson of the Korena War itself: a power vacuum in Korean War itself; a power vacuum in Korea is an invitation to aggression.
By defeating China in 1895, Japan won Taiwan as its first colony and effectively ended the centuries-old Chinese world order. By defeating Russia in 1905, Japan won international recognition of its "paramount political, military and economic interests in Korea", as enshrined in the Treaty of Portsmouth. By 1937, Japan was in full control of its Korean colony and prepared to utilize the Korean peninsula as a supply base and military platform for invading China. Lacking strategic interests in Northeast Asia, the U.S. stood by as Japan gobbled up Korea and advanced into Manchuria. But Japan's military successes peaked at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1041, and it was defeated in August 1945. By then, the geopolitical importance of Korea was not lost on the victorious allies, who paritioned the peninsula at the 38th Parallel .
That does it for this week. I will be some of you didn't know about Japan and it's wars with China and
Russia. Well now you can tie in your history before Pearl Harbor and why and how Japan got too big
for it's britches. Do you suppose history will repeat itself with, you know who? And I don't mean
China. As always, time will tell. See y'all monday. Cheers CJ
Thursday, January 27, 2011
RELIGION or POLITICS ??? About North Korea, did you Know?
Hi y'all, Sorry again, couldn't get this out yesterday, darn computer again. But then, I think it is fixed and in good shape again. Now, this blog today is about Peace in Korea and I believe your will learn some things you didn't know about N. Korea. We read about he situation there between North and South Korea, but not about pertinent history. Worth the read.
This also comes from the news letter, IMPRIMIS, published by Hillsdale College, and written by Sung-Yoon Lee, assistant Professor of Interrnational politics at Fletcher School of Law at Tufts University.. So here goes. (This maybe be in three parts).
We are often reminded that the Korean War ended not with a formal peace treaty, but rather iwth an armistice. And indeed, that is an irrefutable fact. But it is not true tht the absence of a formal peace treaty is an impediment to peace in Korea. The signing of such a treaty between the United States and North Korea today would not facilitate, let alone guarantee, genuine peace of denuclearization on the Koren peninsula. To believe that it would can only be the result of a fundamental misreading of the North Korean regime, both in terms of its nature and of its strategic intent.
It was on July 27, 1953, that the armistice bringing the Korean War to an end was signed. The war ended without a clear victor and with the Korean peninsula divided more or less along the same lines as at the beginning of the war on June 25, 1950. Despite the lack of a final resolution, the armistice made possible a long peace in Northeast Asia and planted the seeds of South Korea's freedom and prosperity.
In North Korea, on the other hand, July 27 has a different meaning. The date is referred to as the day of "Victory in Fatherland Liberation War", and Pyongyang commemorates each year " the anniversary of the great victory of the Korean people in the Fatherland Liberation War." North Korea considers it a reminder of the unfinished business of communizing the entire Korean peninsula -- or, in the words of Communist Part Charter, "the accomplishment of the revolutionary goals of national liberation and the people's democracy on the entire area of the country." The war may have ended in 1953, but the North Korean revolution rages on. This fact helps explain the fundamental geopolitical dynamic on the peninsula.
In this light, consider Nort Korea's repeated demand for a peace treaty with the United States. What explains its insistence on signing such a treaty with its vanquished foe? The answer is self-evident to realize its goal of evicting the U.S. forces from South Korea. Ever since North Korea joined the World Health Organization in 1973 and opened a diplomatic mission in New York the following year, it has been proposing bilateral peace negotiations with Washington.
Of course, this didn't stop it from sending assassins to kill South Korean President Park Chung Hee or kidnapping South Korean fishermen. Why would a nation that claims to seek peace engage in such war-like activities? The answer is that North Korea is not seeking peace, but rather a change in the military balance of power on the Korean peninsula. In addition, North Korea regularly makes threats against the U.S., its ostensible future partner in peace. WHY? Because Pyongyang sees itself as the party wielding the carrots and sticks in order to cajole and coerce its adversaries, Washington and Seoul. In other words, North Korea acts upon its own strategy. It does not merely react to signals coming out of Washington or Seoul, no matter how "diplomatic" they may be.
This be part I of this series and I hope you are interested enought in the affairs, of the world and the good old USA, to get a handle on this rather peculiar situation in world aggressiona and diplomacy and learn more than you will read in the newspapers. Probably will continue this tomorrow seeing as how it is friday and my lateness. So do come back and visit agiain, I do so appreciate it. Cheers CJ
This also comes from the news letter, IMPRIMIS, published by Hillsdale College, and written by Sung-Yoon Lee, assistant Professor of Interrnational politics at Fletcher School of Law at Tufts University.. So here goes. (This maybe be in three parts).
We are often reminded that the Korean War ended not with a formal peace treaty, but rather iwth an armistice. And indeed, that is an irrefutable fact. But it is not true tht the absence of a formal peace treaty is an impediment to peace in Korea. The signing of such a treaty between the United States and North Korea today would not facilitate, let alone guarantee, genuine peace of denuclearization on the Koren peninsula. To believe that it would can only be the result of a fundamental misreading of the North Korean regime, both in terms of its nature and of its strategic intent.
It was on July 27, 1953, that the armistice bringing the Korean War to an end was signed. The war ended without a clear victor and with the Korean peninsula divided more or less along the same lines as at the beginning of the war on June 25, 1950. Despite the lack of a final resolution, the armistice made possible a long peace in Northeast Asia and planted the seeds of South Korea's freedom and prosperity.
In North Korea, on the other hand, July 27 has a different meaning. The date is referred to as the day of "Victory in Fatherland Liberation War", and Pyongyang commemorates each year " the anniversary of the great victory of the Korean people in the Fatherland Liberation War." North Korea considers it a reminder of the unfinished business of communizing the entire Korean peninsula -- or, in the words of Communist Part Charter, "the accomplishment of the revolutionary goals of national liberation and the people's democracy on the entire area of the country." The war may have ended in 1953, but the North Korean revolution rages on. This fact helps explain the fundamental geopolitical dynamic on the peninsula.
In this light, consider Nort Korea's repeated demand for a peace treaty with the United States. What explains its insistence on signing such a treaty with its vanquished foe? The answer is self-evident to realize its goal of evicting the U.S. forces from South Korea. Ever since North Korea joined the World Health Organization in 1973 and opened a diplomatic mission in New York the following year, it has been proposing bilateral peace negotiations with Washington.
Of course, this didn't stop it from sending assassins to kill South Korean President Park Chung Hee or kidnapping South Korean fishermen. Why would a nation that claims to seek peace engage in such war-like activities? The answer is that North Korea is not seeking peace, but rather a change in the military balance of power on the Korean peninsula. In addition, North Korea regularly makes threats against the U.S., its ostensible future partner in peace. WHY? Because Pyongyang sees itself as the party wielding the carrots and sticks in order to cajole and coerce its adversaries, Washington and Seoul. In other words, North Korea acts upon its own strategy. It does not merely react to signals coming out of Washington or Seoul, no matter how "diplomatic" they may be.
This be part I of this series and I hope you are interested enought in the affairs, of the world and the good old USA, to get a handle on this rather peculiar situation in world aggressiona and diplomacy and learn more than you will read in the newspapers. Probably will continue this tomorrow seeing as how it is friday and my lateness. So do come back and visit agiain, I do so appreciate it. Cheers CJ
Monday, January 24, 2011
RELIGION or POLITICS ??? Platform for a Constitutional Government. cont'd,
Happy monday to all, Friday I completed the Platform for a Constitutional Government, which as you were informed was originated by Hillsdale College at Hillsdale, MI., and also the Publisher of their monthly newsletter, IMPRIMIS. The college stems back to 1844, and their core curriculum is is based around theri Articles of Association which commits them to two things. The first is "sound learning" of the liberal arts, and the second is the reading of the Declaration of Independence, following its arguments and research from old books in history.
Hillsdale is devoted in the first sentence of its Articles of Association to the principles of "civil and religious liberty". These principles are America's gift to the world. We are all of us products of that gift. We are not sons of dukes and earls -- or of czars. We are Americans because of this gift. And signs are lately that Americans do not much want to give it up. This is a very hopeful thing.
Hilsdale College has always taught the Constitution and has always fought for it. Our teaching of it is intense, difficult, challenging. As for fighting, we are famous in modern times for a decade-long lawsuit against the federal government, and for the fact that we refuse to take money from the government. It is expensive these days, indeed increasingly so, for a college not to take federal money. But we believe that the price of taking it is dearer still.
No one should think, however, that in refusing money from the modern bureaucratic of government that exists in this city today, we have forgotten our loyalty to the constitutional form that flourished here for so long.
There is only one way to return to living under the principles of the Declaration of Independence and the institutions of the Constitution. We must come to love those things again. And if we love them, then we serve them. But we cannot love them until we understand them until we know them. So the first step is to study them and teach them, and Hillsdale College comes to Washington meaning to do that. We aim to create an atmosphere in this city of the study and knowledge and understanding and love of the principles of America.
And so be it, my friends. If you aren't in love with this country and willing to fight to keep it as it was conceived, then I'd say, get out and stay out, and the sooner the better. See y'all. Cheers CJ
Hillsdale is devoted in the first sentence of its Articles of Association to the principles of "civil and religious liberty". These principles are America's gift to the world. We are all of us products of that gift. We are not sons of dukes and earls -- or of czars. We are Americans because of this gift. And signs are lately that Americans do not much want to give it up. This is a very hopeful thing.
Hilsdale College has always taught the Constitution and has always fought for it. Our teaching of it is intense, difficult, challenging. As for fighting, we are famous in modern times for a decade-long lawsuit against the federal government, and for the fact that we refuse to take money from the government. It is expensive these days, indeed increasingly so, for a college not to take federal money. But we believe that the price of taking it is dearer still.
No one should think, however, that in refusing money from the modern bureaucratic of government that exists in this city today, we have forgotten our loyalty to the constitutional form that flourished here for so long.
There is only one way to return to living under the principles of the Declaration of Independence and the institutions of the Constitution. We must come to love those things again. And if we love them, then we serve them. But we cannot love them until we understand them until we know them. So the first step is to study them and teach them, and Hillsdale College comes to Washington meaning to do that. We aim to create an atmosphere in this city of the study and knowledge and understanding and love of the principles of America.
And so be it, my friends. If you aren't in love with this country and willing to fight to keep it as it was conceived, then I'd say, get out and stay out, and the sooner the better. See y'all. Cheers CJ
Friday, January 21, 2011
RELIGION or POLITICS ??? Platform for a Constitutional Government. cont'd,
Hello everyone, I am sorry I missed this past Wednesday's blog., why? Well, guess what? Yep, the not so old computer crashed, I finally to the dreaded Blue Page of Death. Had the good fortune to be led to an excellent computer wiz, with very reasonable rates, and voila, I am now back in business, so to speak.
Anway this is the finale to this series of blogs, and hope you read it thoroughly and remember it. Things are going to be happening in this country over the next couple years or so, and it will be the good old wringing out that will bring this country back to a Republic and capitalism, as it was designed to be. So Go:
Part 3. To accomplish its primary duty of protecting individual liberty, the federal goveenment must uphold national security.
a. National defense has been for most of American history the chief undertaking of the government under the Constitution. It has been supplanted by the federal entitlement and regulatory state. This reversal of priority hapers growth at home, deprives the American people of scope for self-government, and undermines the defense of the nation.
b. We should pursue relentlessly every form of defense against foeigh threats. Especially is this true in the case of attack by weapons of mass destruction. Therefore missile defense and a vigorous policy to combat Islamic and other forms of terrorism are urgently required.
c. We must overcome all interntional and domestic efforts to undermine American sovereignity, including those mounted through the United Nations and other international organizations, or through efforts to impose new treaties.
d. Promotion of democracy and defense of innocents abroad should be undertaken only in keeping with the national interest.
4. The restoration of a high standard of public and private morality is essential to the revival of costitutionalism. As the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 states, "Religion, morality, and knowledge being necessary to good government and the haappiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged." The Constitution itself says nothing about education, for the same reason it says nothing about families or marriage or child rearing. Parents and teachers, not the federal government, teach children. What they teach them matters most, for without proper moral and civic education a republican form of government will falter. With it, and with a strong defense of our right to religious liberty, republican government can flourish.
It closes again with the words of Lincoln, from the same speech with which we began. Quoting the Bible, Lincoln said that "a house divided against itself cannot stand?" We shall be governed either by ourselves, under a constitution, or else we shall be governed by the NEW kind of master invented in our day, the bureaucrat, and by the imprenetrable web of rules that he fabricates and enforces.
Let us stand against the rule of bureaucracy, and for liberty and the Constitution.
So I close for this week and remind you of what Obama wants to do now, and that is to look into all the rules and regulations and decide which ones are not needed and then supplant them with those that would be better. Ummmmmmm, for WHOM?????? Wake up people, this in-house invasion is so insidious and little by little designed to ruin, " America under the Constitution". Question everything that is proposed in Washington and check what is behind it for their hidden agenda.
Cheers CJ
Anway this is the finale to this series of blogs, and hope you read it thoroughly and remember it. Things are going to be happening in this country over the next couple years or so, and it will be the good old wringing out that will bring this country back to a Republic and capitalism, as it was designed to be. So Go:
Part 3. To accomplish its primary duty of protecting individual liberty, the federal goveenment must uphold national security.
a. National defense has been for most of American history the chief undertaking of the government under the Constitution. It has been supplanted by the federal entitlement and regulatory state. This reversal of priority hapers growth at home, deprives the American people of scope for self-government, and undermines the defense of the nation.
b. We should pursue relentlessly every form of defense against foeigh threats. Especially is this true in the case of attack by weapons of mass destruction. Therefore missile defense and a vigorous policy to combat Islamic and other forms of terrorism are urgently required.
c. We must overcome all interntional and domestic efforts to undermine American sovereignity, including those mounted through the United Nations and other international organizations, or through efforts to impose new treaties.
d. Promotion of democracy and defense of innocents abroad should be undertaken only in keeping with the national interest.
4. The restoration of a high standard of public and private morality is essential to the revival of costitutionalism. As the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 states, "Religion, morality, and knowledge being necessary to good government and the haappiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged." The Constitution itself says nothing about education, for the same reason it says nothing about families or marriage or child rearing. Parents and teachers, not the federal government, teach children. What they teach them matters most, for without proper moral and civic education a republican form of government will falter. With it, and with a strong defense of our right to religious liberty, republican government can flourish.
It closes again with the words of Lincoln, from the same speech with which we began. Quoting the Bible, Lincoln said that "a house divided against itself cannot stand?" We shall be governed either by ourselves, under a constitution, or else we shall be governed by the NEW kind of master invented in our day, the bureaucrat, and by the imprenetrable web of rules that he fabricates and enforces.
Let us stand against the rule of bureaucracy, and for liberty and the Constitution.
So I close for this week and remind you of what Obama wants to do now, and that is to look into all the rules and regulations and decide which ones are not needed and then supplant them with those that would be better. Ummmmmmm, for WHOM?????? Wake up people, this in-house invasion is so insidious and little by little designed to ruin, " America under the Constitution". Question everything that is proposed in Washington and check what is behind it for their hidden agenda.
Cheers CJ
Monday, January 17, 2011
RELIGION or POLITICS ??? Platform for a Constitutional Government. Cont'd.
(Content taken from newsletter IMPRIMUS published by Hillsdale College),
Greetings my good friends. For those of you who wisely follow my blog efforts, 3 times a week, and which are loaded with pertinent wisdom specifically chosen for insert in my blog title, Religion or Politics. Today is the 2nd Pillar of the considered Platform for Constitutional Government. The First Pillar of course was in my last blog last friday, and before that check my archives, especially the one with the quote from Abraham Lincoln. Now, onward and upward:
Pillar 2. Economic Liberty is inversely proportional to governmental intrusion to the lives of citizens.
The platform upon which Abraham Lincoln was elected president stated "that the people justly view with alarm the reckless extravagance which pervades every department of the Federal Government". It urged "a return to rigid economy and accountability" that "is indispensable to arrest the systematic plunder of the public treasury by favorite partisans......." Likewise today:
A. American economic recovery requires that we liberate the American people to work, to save, and to invest, secure in their property, confident about the dollar as a store of value, and sure tht the government will be an impartial enforcer of the law and of contracts.
B In all administrtion of federal programs we must demand the utmost economy, and that every care be taken to avoid further growth and sprawl in the federal administrative establishment.
C. Our massive public investment in entitlement programs must be protected through privatization programs, which should utilize the real practices of insurance against catastrophe and of savings for future needs. In this process our investment must be safeguarded from loss, as the government must keep its contracts.
D. Sound money is among the most sacred of the federal government's responsibilities and price stability should be the aim of monetary policy.
E. The federal government must not subsidize corporations or individuals in its tax code or any other policy.
F. Philanthropy is the natural outgrowth of American principles and institutions. It should be encouraged and relied upon, along with local and state government, as the great engine of social reform, and the amelioration of distress.
Greetings my good friends. For those of you who wisely follow my blog efforts, 3 times a week, and which are loaded with pertinent wisdom specifically chosen for insert in my blog title, Religion or Politics. Today is the 2nd Pillar of the considered Platform for Constitutional Government. The First Pillar of course was in my last blog last friday, and before that check my archives, especially the one with the quote from Abraham Lincoln. Now, onward and upward:
Pillar 2. Economic Liberty is inversely proportional to governmental intrusion to the lives of citizens.
The platform upon which Abraham Lincoln was elected president stated "that the people justly view with alarm the reckless extravagance which pervades every department of the Federal Government". It urged "a return to rigid economy and accountability" that "is indispensable to arrest the systematic plunder of the public treasury by favorite partisans......." Likewise today:
A. American economic recovery requires that we liberate the American people to work, to save, and to invest, secure in their property, confident about the dollar as a store of value, and sure tht the government will be an impartial enforcer of the law and of contracts.
B In all administrtion of federal programs we must demand the utmost economy, and that every care be taken to avoid further growth and sprawl in the federal administrative establishment.
C. Our massive public investment in entitlement programs must be protected through privatization programs, which should utilize the real practices of insurance against catastrophe and of savings for future needs. In this process our investment must be safeguarded from loss, as the government must keep its contracts.
D. Sound money is among the most sacred of the federal government's responsibilities and price stability should be the aim of monetary policy.
E. The federal government must not subsidize corporations or individuals in its tax code or any other policy.
F. Philanthropy is the natural outgrowth of American principles and institutions. It should be encouraged and relied upon, along with local and state government, as the great engine of social reform, and the amelioration of distress.
Friday, January 14, 2011
RELIGION or POLITICS ? The Presidency and the Constitution, cont'd
Constitutional Government. Cont'd.
Hi y'all, boy this country is certainly going through convulsions these days, huh? And the fingers pointing at most anybody whether it has facts behind the pointing or not. What this country has come to, uh uh! What has happened to good old values and principles??? Anyway, let's continue with getting back to a Constitutional Government. (Content taken from newsletter IMPRIMUS published by Hillsdale College),
Oh, go to my archives if you want to see what I've published previously and well worth your time, if you have any sense of love for America. Now to go on: The last one ended with "Politicians are not angels or perfect, therefore government must have powers, but these powers must be limited and checked.
If this is where we are, then it is easy to see"what to do, and how to do it" We must return to the priniciples and institutions of the founding of our country. We must revive constitutional rule. to do so, we propose the following four pillars of constitutional government.
1. Potecting the equal and inalienable rights of individuals is government's primary responsibility
a. By rights, America's founders meant those things naturally belonging to us, and those things earned by our own labor. The protection ot rights understood in this way breeds harmony in the society, because each of us claims for himself what he can also give to all others. We may speak, worship, asemble, and keep our justly earned property without taking from another.
b. Each branch of government is subservient to the Consttution.
c. The federal government has the constitutional duty to ensure that each state maintains a republican form of government. This obligation is strengthened and clarified in the 14th Amendment. It must ensure that no state infringes on the rights or the "privileges or immunities" of citizens. Yet it must also recognize the constitutional standing of state governmtents.
d. The duties of Congress are clearly dilineated in Article I, Section 8 of the constitution. It should do no more, lest liberty be endangered. It should do no less, else anarchy ensue.
Have a great weekend my friends, and by all means, when you can get a chance, listen to Glenn Beck. He is incredible in my book, and could well be a saviour and greatly influence this country in getting itself turned around from it's present direction to the dumps. Listen, take action and stand up for a Constitutional government, and also keep in mind China is about take over the title of World Power. Pay attention. Cheers CJ
Hi y'all, boy this country is certainly going through convulsions these days, huh? And the fingers pointing at most anybody whether it has facts behind the pointing or not. What this country has come to, uh uh! What has happened to good old values and principles??? Anyway, let's continue with getting back to a Constitutional Government. (Content taken from newsletter IMPRIMUS published by Hillsdale College),
Oh, go to my archives if you want to see what I've published previously and well worth your time, if you have any sense of love for America. Now to go on: The last one ended with "Politicians are not angels or perfect, therefore government must have powers, but these powers must be limited and checked.
If this is where we are, then it is easy to see"what to do, and how to do it" We must return to the priniciples and institutions of the founding of our country. We must revive constitutional rule. to do so, we propose the following four pillars of constitutional government.
1. Potecting the equal and inalienable rights of individuals is government's primary responsibility
a. By rights, America's founders meant those things naturally belonging to us, and those things earned by our own labor. The protection ot rights understood in this way breeds harmony in the society, because each of us claims for himself what he can also give to all others. We may speak, worship, asemble, and keep our justly earned property without taking from another.
b. Each branch of government is subservient to the Consttution.
c. The federal government has the constitutional duty to ensure that each state maintains a republican form of government. This obligation is strengthened and clarified in the 14th Amendment. It must ensure that no state infringes on the rights or the "privileges or immunities" of citizens. Yet it must also recognize the constitutional standing of state governmtents.
d. The duties of Congress are clearly dilineated in Article I, Section 8 of the constitution. It should do no more, lest liberty be endangered. It should do no less, else anarchy ensue.
Have a great weekend my friends, and by all means, when you can get a chance, listen to Glenn Beck. He is incredible in my book, and could well be a saviour and greatly influence this country in getting itself turned around from it's present direction to the dumps. Listen, take action and stand up for a Constitutional government, and also keep in mind China is about take over the title of World Power. Pay attention. Cheers CJ
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