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Today is a day for picnics, barbecues and fireworks. It is also the 236th anniversary of adoption in Philadelphia of the Declaration of Independence. Its famous preamble still rings true as it forms the foundation of American freedom.
There is not a freer country than America. Not even Britain or the countries of the European economic zone. Of course, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights really make the difference.
But today we honor the first outline of freedom in the Declaration of Independence.
Its second paragraph is worth reviewing.
“We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”
We count this as the fundamental statement of American life — our allegiance to the belief ”that all men are created equal.” Because of the leadership of Martin Luther King Jr. and President Lyndon Johnson in 1964 this right was written into law. And now even in the South it is believed. Some Southern states helped to elect a black man as president of this country. For this all Americans feel a sense of pride.
It was certainly with hope that this country elected Barack Obama president.
It is also with hope now that he not be reelected. In a country of equals he has sought to divide us. In a country of equals he has attacked business, whether banks, oil companies, coal companies, utilities or any million dollar business that isn’t Warren Buffet. In a country of equals he has spent our tax money on crony capitalism, rewarding unions and his campaign bundlers and giving out money to solar companies and electric car battery makers that couldn’t exist without government funds. And a lot of these have gone bankrupt with government funds.
He has used the EPA and executive orders to do what Congress would not allow. Among the rules are seven that will cost this country’s economy more than $1 billion each, with the EPA accounting for $104.5 billion worth of economic damage, according to a White House response to a letter from the speaker of the house.
He has made seven appointments without the consent of Congress, claiming for himself the right to interpret when Congress is or is not in session. To avoid Senate confirmation he has appointed 31 “czars” as of this year to oversee areas that are already covered by cabinet secretaries.
The czar list includes AIDS, auto recovery, border, California water, cars, Central Region (Middle East), domestic violence, drugs, economy, energy and environment, faith-based, Great Lakes, green jobs, Guantanamo closure, health, information, international climate, intelligence, pay, regulatory, science, stimulus accountability, Sudan, TARP, terrorism, technology, urban affairs, weapons, WMD policy, and Mideast Peace.
Many of these czars would be considered radicals by most people. Some lack competence in their field. There is even a U.S. communist holding one of the czarist positions. Quite a few of these seem like jobs with little to do. The political mindset of these czars is to erode our liberty and pursuit of happiness.
It is our hope that this year the White House will get scrubbed with czar-be-gone.
Return our liberty and pursuit of happiness and the unemployment rate will come down. “That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.” Not from the consent of the government and its czars.
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who says?July 03, 2012 - 9:00 am
"There is not a freer country than America."
Robert ThompsonJuly 03, 2012 - 9:10 am
What a shameful distortion of the President's efforts. Fortunately, the majority of Americans are smarter than this, and President Obama will be reelected.
tell usJuly 03, 2012 - 9:17 am
Distortions? Name them, Robert.
Smell UsJuly 03, 2012 - 9:29 am
Well, it starts at the first word, and ends at the last word.
Dink LaneJuly 03, 2012 - 11:29 am
"He sought to divide us"...... WHAT? Do you think 369 FILIBUSTERS had anything to do with the division???.... The BIRTHERS-- who should be called "I can't believe he's allowed to be President" crowd....had anything to do with the division??? The compromises to the GOP only to end up RUNNING further to the Right once he touched their plan..have anything to do the division??? Tell me ONE STEP A GOP'er HAS MADE TOWARDS UNITY??? and I will apologize....
Wendi BarbaJuly 04, 2012 - 8:42 am
Shame on me for thinking the MD had actually stepped out of its usual biased reporting and editorials ways when I started to read this editorial......Shame on the Mountain Democrat for using the 4th of July holiday to once again spead its one sided message of lies and exaggerations. Not everyone in El Dorado County believes the crap that is writen in the paper as fact!
RichardJuly 04, 2012 - 10:00 am
Today we celebrate our hard-won independence from England and pause to blow up colorful explosives, grill some hotdogs over the barbecue flame and get good deals furniture and cars. And, of course, drink beer. Can that be all there is, certainly there’s more? In a time when almost everything that’s said from education, unions, immigration, health care and the military by our media seems to be designed to divide our nation, when the “Internet allows us to tear apart our fellow Americans virtual throats from the comfort of our keyboards," what does a holiday like Independence Day mean? The out gassing above certainly gives us some insight as to what those who spend their time at the Mountain Democrat stirring the pot in El Dorado County think of Independence Day, and I would guess Veterans and Memorial Day. I stand amazed by what I read in the Mountain Democrat, this is going beyond the typical political fighting over whose going to make the money. I would guess it has its base in the fact that some people just can’t live with the idea of a Negro in the White House. Since there’s no author listed on the above editorial I would guess it was written by former editor Mike Rafferty or that new guy Richard what’s his name from Kansas, both fit the profile. This is not what I fought for….............. Richard W. Buchanan NC USMC
Janet MumauJuly 04, 2012 - 10:36 am
I agree wholeheartedly with everything you brought out in your editorial. With God's graces and the moral backbone of the American people, we will be able to rid ourselves of this tyrant, who is slowly but surely taking away our rights and liberties.
Penny B.July 04, 2012 - 1:53 pm
Interesting that Richard pulls out the race card. Hardly likely that Obama's ethnicity relates in the slightest to his qualification for the presidency or policies of the last 3 plus years.
prime timeJuly 04, 2012 - 2:31 pm
Death of the US Constitution: Can Americans Escape the Deception?
Dink LaneJuly 04, 2012 - 2:47 pm
369 FILIBUSTERS to STOP Bills from even coming to the floor for a DISCUSSION if it's right or wrong...... 19 HOUSE Bills on ABORTIONS not JOBS or Holding back the Banks from Gambling with stockholders $$$ ..... BLOCKING 190 of the President's APPOINTEES.... Is Good Policy??? .... but DEAD SILENCE for Congress's POLICY .... "Oh, but it's Obama's fault that gas prices are high..." ..... That kind of stupid logic is what Jefferson and Adams worried about in their 1813 letters ... but then again.... They could READ... they didn't have FOX to distort the facts for them...
Evelyn VeerkampJuly 04, 2012 - 6:10 pm
According to the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office, ACA will reduce the labor force by 800,000 over the next decade and estimates that the cost to American businesses due to inability or failure to comply will be $52 billion. http://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/cbofiles/ftpdocs/121xx/doc12119/03-30-healthcarelegislation.pdf
Evelyn VeerkampJuly 04, 2012 - 6:13 pm
According to the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office, ACA will reduce the labor force by 800,000 over the next decade and estimates that the cost to American businesses due to inability or failure to comply will be $52 billion. ********** Note to the Mt Dem: For some reason comments citing references/links are being rejected.
Evelyn VeerkampJuly 04, 2012 - 6:25 pm
CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE ANALYSIS OF THE MAJOR HEALTH CARE LEGISLATION ENACTED IN MARCH 2010 before the Subcommittee on Health Committee on Energy and Commerce U.S. House of Representatives March 30, 2011 ********** http://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/cbofiles/ftpdocs/121xx/doc12119/03-30-healthcarelegislation.pdf
Rolo TomassiJuly 05, 2012 - 12:23 pm
Evelyn Veerkamp how uninformed are you? If you read the whole report you would know that the reduction in the “labor force” will be as a result of people either choosing to retire early or leaving a job to start their own business. Stop with the Fox right wing nut radio talking points. If you want to quote the CBO use all of their conclusions and stop cherry picking what this non partisan organization says in order to spew teabagger nonsense, in other words stop lying and distorting the facts. Oh I forgot you probably are a teabagger so lying and distorting the facts are all you have. Sorry.
Evelyn VeerkampJuly 05, 2012 - 1:29 pm
1. Apologies for the multiple, virtually duplicate, above postings. ********** 2. Rolo is right. The entire report should be read. ********** 3. Not having cable service I don't watch Fox or MSNBC or any other. But I gather from you that Fox is definitely OUT. ********** Rolo, I have no political affiliation. But, on your say-so, I will be on the lookout for those terrible teabaggers!
Evelyn VeerkampJuly 05, 2012 - 1:37 pm
HOW WILL THE SUPREME COURT’S DECISION TO UPHOLD OBAMACARE AFFECT SMALL BUSINESSES AND JOB CREATION? “Beginning in 2014, the "Employer Responsibility" provision would require employers with 50 or more workers to provide health coverage. Employers who refuse to provide the mandated coverage in 2014 will be hit with a $2,000 per employee yearly penalty -- applied to all but the first 20 employees. Spread over a year, the penalty would add 95 cents an hour to the cost of a full-time worker.” @ http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/358176/20120630/supreme-court-health-care-small-business-job.htm?page=all#.T_X6E_VKtNq