Where's John Adams when you need him?

I recently watched the HBO movie "John Adams " and I don't know about you, but I was totally impressed with the realistic portrayal of life during the time of the American Revolution as well as the idealism expressed by the Founding Fathers. If you haven't seen it yet, I'd urge you to rent it and watch it over a few evenings. I love history and enjoy seeing it re-enacted in a TV movie although through poetic license, most of it is made up. Having originally come from Philadelphia, I can vouch for the fact that the room in Independence Hall in which John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, et al. worked on the Declaration of Independence looks just like it was portrayed. Nevertheless, it's too bad we couldn't have watched something like this during our school years...sure would have been more entertaining than a dry old history book.

Take a look at this "John Adams" video clip .


Somehow, I don't believe that the government we have today is what the Founding Fathers had in mind when they wrote the Constitution. We have way too much Big Government supported by way too High Taxes.

And here's a quote from Thomas Jefferson:

"A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned -- this is the sum of good government."

Here's an interesting story I read in another blog post:

Free Corn

A chemistry professor in a large college that had some exchange students in the class. One day while the class was in the lab the Prof noticed one young man (exchange student) who kept rubbing his back, and stretching as if his back hurt.The professor asked the young man what was the matter.

The student told him he had a bullet lodged in his back. He had been shot while fighting communists in his native country who were trying to overthrow his country's government and install a new communist government In the midst of his story he looked at the professor and asked a strange question. He asked, 'Do you know how to catch wild pigs?'

The professor thought it was a joke and asked for the punch line. The young man said this was no joke. 'You catch wild pigs by finding a suitable place in the woods and putting corn on the ground. The pigs find it and begin to come everyday to eat the free corn. When they are used to coming every day, you put a fence down one side of the place where they are used to coming.


When they get used to the fence, they begin to eat the corn again and you put up another side of the fence.They get used to that and start to eat again.

You continue until you have all four sides of the fence up with a gate in the last side. The pigs, who are used to the free corn, start to come through the gate to eat, you slam the gate on them and catch the whole herd.

Suddenly the wild pigs have lost their freedom. They run around and around inside the fence, but they are caught. Soon they go back to eating the free corn. They are so used to it that they have forgotten how to forage in the woods for themselves, so they accept their captivity.

The young man then told the professor that is exactly what he sees happening to America. The government keeps pushing us toward socialism and keeps spreading the free corn out in the form of programs such as supplemental income, tax credit for unearned income, tobacco subsidies, dairy subsidies, payments not to plant crops (CRP), welfare, medicine, drugs, etc. While we continually lose our freedoms - just a little at a time.

One should always remember: There is no such thing as a free lunch! A politician will never provide a service for you cheaper than you can do it yourself.

If you think the free ride is essential to your way of life, then you will probably delete this email, but God help you when the gate slams shut!

If you see that all of this wonderful government 'help' is a problem confronting the future of democracy in America , you might want to send this on to your friends.

In this 'very important' election year, listen closely to what the candidates are promising you! Maybe you just might be able to tell who is about to slam the gate on America ...

A government big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough to take away everything you have -- Thomas Jefferson

This is indeed a very important election year. Before you cast your vote in November, think hard about the candidates and who will lead this country as our Founding Fathers did. Get the facts, don't believe the hype.

For one final quote we have this:

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.
You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.
You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence.
You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves."

Abraham Lincoln


Til next time.....
Celeste Peterson
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