Congratulations on your
arrival to the voter list, and congratulations to all who are graduating.
Some of you are heading into colleges and universities. Some of you are
hitting the streets to knock on doors in search of jobs. Some of you
already have hit those streets and have been successful, while others
have discovered undemanding solace in a particular corner of a parent’s
couch.
Whatever your priorities
and whatever your circumstance, remember this admonition, you are the first
generation, since the founding of this great Nation, which will never retire.
Ever. Oh, a very few of you will inherit some shrunk fortunes, which will
keep declining in lock-step with the shrinking dollar, but most of you will
have to make your own way with the tools you have appropriated.
You will spend a majority
of your waking moments competing with millions of new arrivals for jobs in a
shrinking job market.
You will live under the
invasive cloud of the state, manipulated at federal, state and local levels by
ideologically entrenched government bureaucracies. You saw how the power
of the IRS was used to attack those who did not support liberal socialist
ideologues. If you consider yourselves open minded, how does this brazen
assault on your rights correspond with your own common sense? Are these
the actions of a government which you feel comforted by? Is this
Administration designing a country which you believe will be conducive to your
enjoyment of successful employment, or to a rewarding personal life?
Are you aware of the
changes being implemented in your healthcare system? Do you realize that
you will not be able to find a family doctor for yourself or your loved
ones? When your time comes to need a doctor, you will discover that
private practices will have become an institution of the past. You will
be required to consult GPs working out of clinics. You will wait hours to
be served, and when you require serious medical attention, such as an
operation, you will wait, and you will wait. You will not wait a month or
two, but a year or two. As you get older, and older, you will discover
that even that mediocre level of service will slowly, but assuredly
decline. The system will not have enough funding to provide you with the
medical care you think you have paid for and deserve. Many decisions will
be beyond your control, and your needs will be secondary to the priorities of
the ’system’ and its financial viability. Bureaucrats, doctors and
surgeons, will make decisions on your behalf without your input.
You will eventually come to
know that the lingering fear in your gut over the long delays for that critical
operation, were well founded, and out of your hands. You will find that
many operations will be considered ‘elective’ even if they are
critical to your wellbeing and long term health. Remember that term. It
will one day haunt you and will come to cost you. The bureaucracy will
make most of those decisions for you. But most of you don’t care about doctors
and health concerns right now. Such are the concerns of ‘old
people.’ Still, in violation of the Constitution, this President has
decreed that you are now forced to purchase health insurance. Yes,
‘forced.’
Let’s look at what else has
occurred while you were awaiting your consequential graduation to ‘voter.’
Your Nation’s Constitution
has been highjacked and abused by an Administration which considers itself
above the need to heed the Constitution’s most fundamental principles and
tenets – the very principles the President swore to uphold. You may have left
primary school when America was a Constitutional Republic, but you are
graduating as it is irreversibly being converted into a crony capitalist nation
centrally controlled by a despotic government.
Your Supreme Court has
become a political vehicle used as a pandering legislative agency obligated to
the Administration which positioned the justices. For example, your
Supreme Court judged the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act as
being Constitutional. It decided that the government can force you
to purchase insurance. How did it justify that? It executed a logistical
summersault and qualified the enforcement of a financial penalty as being a
tax. Penalty = Tax = Constitution? You
know, like “it depends on what the definition of is, is.” Just make it
up as you go along. Who’s going to tell the Supremes they can’t? No one,
it seems. But remember this: Chief Justice John Roberts, Sonia
Sotomayor, Stephen Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Elena Kagan don’t know what
the meaning of “is,” is. Justices Anthony Kennedy, Samuel Alito, Antonin
Scalia and Clarence Thomas have understood perfectly.
Your Administration has
disregarded the fundamental separation of powers, as it imposed its political
ideology on the vast bureaucracy of the state. In its violation of the
Constitution, the Administration has usurped your powers. Only those with
short memories will have forgotten that in January of 2012, the President
trashed the Senate’s power of “advice and consent” as mandated by the Constitution
when he made the unprecedented appointments of four commissions including three
members to the National Labor Relations Board one to the Consumer Financial
Protection Bureau (CFPB). Take a few minutes sometime to dig into what
the CFPB digs into, then compile in your heads what you have learned of the
bureaucratic overreach which this Administration has shown a propensity for,
and surprise – just another intrusive organization invading your financial
affairs. How great is that? You may not care today, but wait a few years
when you locate microscopes in places you weren’t aware you had opened
for encroachment. Your grumbling will be audible, but it will be
pointless against the obnoxious wave of deaf conceit flowing from Washington.
Your Nation is being transformed
into an authoritarian socialist motherland. Don’t look for the process to
jump the track and ride onto the fictional collectivist utopia some of you have
thought you’d inhale yourselves into. You are stepping onto a train led
by a dysfunctional egoistic cluster of self-loathing individuals who have
little respect for any of you. You will either be herded into the corral
of sycophants, receiving handouts for your capitulation, or you will be locked
out of the compound, hoping the wind sweeps crumbs your way for sustenance.
Fear has only been one of
the effectively used motivators in the conversion of your Nation. The
transformation was not an accident – it has been willful. Led by
sanctimonious people convinced that they morally know better what is right for
all others, these individuals are immersed in ideologies diametrically opposed
to the original intentions of the Framers of your Constitution. All levels of
your system of governance are being altered. The process has not been
subtle.
While you were preoccupied
with Legend of Zelda and distracted with the suitability of the name given to a
Hollywood star’s new baby, your leaders in Washington made endless decisions
rooted in fear. For example, the fear of terrorists legitimized excessive
invasion of your privacy. The fear of global financial calamity justified
and rationalized in panic, a massive borrowing to bail-out too-big-to-fail
financial institutions and auto manufacturers which should never have been
allowed to survive incompetence and fraud.
The amount of extravagant
borrowing, orchestrated in your name, will become more meaningful to all of you
as that reality empties your wallets and bank accounts in the coming
years. Taxes were raised, and will continue to be raised by your leaders
who know of no other method to raise money for their grand plans, their
fantasies and their personal fortunes. They have convinced a bare
majority of your parents, and your grandparents, that the bigger the
government, the better the government, and the more effectively it can
take care of them. Your parents and your grandparents watched
submissively as their taxes rose, but you will be punished with a double
whammy. Your taxes will not only continue to rise, but you and your
children are the generations which will also be responsible for that giant debt
accumulated for the benefit of predecessors. That debt is a tax burden by a
different name, and you will have no choice but to bear it.
You are an indentured
generation. Like it or not, understand it or not, you are trapped in a lifelong
vice of debt. You are stepping out into a society which has long been
convinced that ‘debt is good’. It doesn’t know why it believes that, but
since it’s been promulgated and recited so ardently for over half a century,
the baffling refrain has saturated every pore of your world.
You will eventually come to
familiarize yourselves with the significance of organizations such as The
Federal Reserve, or the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) in Basel,
Switzerland. These organizations influence your wellbeing and the
wellbeing of the Nation you thought was yours. You do not control these
organizations, you do not own them, and neither does your government.
Most of you have little knowledge of what they are, or what they do, and they,
like to keep it that way. The Federal Reserve is your Central Bank and
is an offshore entity owned by a group of U.S. and European Banks, well, it’s
not really yours, but it’s the organization which impacts your every waking
moment. Central banks are not managed by practical individuals with any
experience which can inspire their decisions. They are economists
immersed in theoretical concepts and abstractions from which they dictate the
direction and tenor of your present and your future.
Do you recall growing up
believing that cartels were illegal, and that Unicorns could heal the sick and
purify water? Do you remember feeling comforted by the thought that there
were laws against oligopolistic environments and monopolistic practices?
Yes? But you don’t wonder how or why all the large banks charge the same
interest rates on loans? No surprise, no one else does either. Sure,
there are laws against price fixing, and it would be wonderful if there existed
real competition in banking, but, well, but nothing. The Bank for
International Settlements, is where the heads of central banks go to decide
your destiny. They deserve somewhere to meet that is comfortably out of
sight of boisterous crowds with prying eyes and placards, and of course, they
occasionally need a clearing house, so the BIS is their bank.
As you grab hold of your
life and step into your tomorrows, you might recall a few of these
exhortations. Since most of you like to think of yourselves as
being of sound mind, please accept that your government was never originally
intended to trample your rights, at least as the Framers of the Constitution
intended it, and astutely structured it. Assess what personal freedom you
have lost, then assert your own lines in the sand beyond which you will
not allow intrusion and oppression. If you don’t, others will decide for
you and you will find yourself trapped in an ideological corral, unable to
breath the Freedom which might have been yours.
Take responsibility for
your actions, particularly your mistakes, ignoring the example you have
witnessed of the current President. The acknowledgement will inform your
own development and growth. Ascribing blame onto others vacates your
capacities to learn anything.
One
more proposition: Reject most of the concocted ‘wisdom’
you have been fed and absorbed throughout your school years since
Kindergarten. Spurn the fantasies. As you make your way, heed your own
common sense, and your own intuition.
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