Name: im2moro2
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“People Just Don’t Care”
November 11th, 2011There’s one in every class - that annoying kid who has to challenge the teacher. Everyone knows that there is no winner in those debates and, to be honest, most everyone would really rather just sit and drool on their notebooks.
There is such a feeling of indifference and tolerance growing into American society, particularly among generation X and Y, that it’s no wonder we have a congress that is being bought off by big money for reelections, an economy that is continuing to plummet and a national debt that has us crawling on our hands and knees to our foreign creditors. It’s no wonder because no one ever did anything to stop it.
The movie Fight Club gives a great look at the problem with generation X.
“We’re the middle children of history…. No purpose or place. We have no Great War, no Great Depression. Our great war is a spiritual war. Our great depression is our lives.”
Because this generation faces no trials they have become complacent and because there is no evidence of a physical war, they are losing the mental one. Minds are being taken captive by the ideas of non-confrontation, especially in the generations following the peace movements of the 70′s. And so when it comes time to fight ideologies, they sit and do nothing.
It’s time to take action. It’s time to be hated for challenging the unquestioned information that pours from classrooms, newspapers, twitter pages and blogs. Info-sharing is more accessible now that it has been in any previous age and it becomes the responsibility of everyone to be simultaneously open-minded and critical.
As Albert the Alligator says in the Pogo Comic Strip, “I may not understand what you say, but I’ll defend to your death my right to deny it.”
We have to stop acting “tolerant” of ideas that fly in the face of justice, liberty and peace simply because we want to be “non-confrontational” and would hate to be pegged as “that annoying kid.”
There is no more time left for apathy. There is no more time to sit and watch. It is time to speak up and stand out.
It’s Who We Are
September 29th, 2011Our constitution is under attack by those who believe it has outlived many of the ideals laid out by the eighteenth century framers who wrote it. In this speech, Audrea outlines three important ways to preserve these ideals for future generations like hers.
Should it be the responsibility of the government to make sure you don’t get too fat?
September 12th, 2011So let’s say you’re out with friends at a movie and the Principal of the school comes up and tells you all that you have to get home and study for tomorrow’s test. Has he overreached his authority in your life by telling you that? When the federal government begins regulating your private life, has it overreached it’s authority?
Here’s a real example of the government getting too involved in our personal lives. Someone in Washington, D.C. gets the idea that we are all getting too fat, so a new law is passed that mandates that every Starbucks print the number of calories on its muffins! Starbucks spends millions of dollars complying and then what? Do we all start losing weight? Of course not! But the price of a latte goes up to cover the added costs imposed on the company. Wouldn’t it just be simpler if we all used a little personal responsibility and payed attention to what we eat?
Oh, by the way, that law doesn’t just apply to Starbucks.
Do we really need 1,300 federal government departments for only 20 constitutionally enumerated powers?
September 12th, 2011Let’s say you have a new smart phone with an unlimited texting plan because you text your friends a lot. But you know there are people who can’t afford a cell phone with texting or don’t want it? Is that fair? Shouldn’t everyone be entitled to unlimited texting? So what if the government says it isn’t fair, so it forms the Department of Cell Phone Fairness and makes everyone pay the government to use the same model of simple phone, and limits everyone to only 10 texts per month? Is that really fair? Is that the kind of “fair” we want from our government?
7 out of 10 Americans believe our nation is on the wrong track. Ask them why and many won’t be able to tell you. They just know something is dreadfully wrong. The truth is, unless, we determine to vote for representatives who understand the power of a free market, the need to protect personal liberty and the danger in federal government that has outgrown it’s jurisdiction, we are destined to stay on this track that will lead us to a very different America.
What do we do about unjust laws?
September 12th, 2011Is every law a just law? What about slavery? Was that a just law? It used to be legal, you know – and to many it was a popular law. Just because a law is popular, does that make it a just law? The thirteenth amendment put an end to the unjust law of slavery. Are there other unjust laws that violate the Constitution today? What should we do about unjust laws? It takes a lot of courage and a lot of resistance to overcome unjust laws in our country, but our system gives us a way to do it - if we are willing to speak up and stand out. By speaking up against unjust laws that violate the Constitution, the Bible and basic human rights, we can change laws and promote liberty. That’s why at im2moro we don’t encourage people to break laws to change laws, but we do encourage people to break the silence to change unjust laws.
As the government prints more dollars out of thin air, what does it do to the value of your dollars?
September 12th, 2011We all need money to live, right? And we work hard for it. So, how would you feel if I took your money, just a little each day, without your permission? Ok, what if I didn’t take it directly, because that would be stealing, right? But I had the power to make your money worth less by printing more for myself? Would that be stealing? So when the government prints more money, making your money less valuable, isn’t that just like taking a little from you every day without your permission? Isn’t that stealing?
Today, as the federal government prints money out of thin air, it slowly devalues the dollars that you already have. Simple supply and demand. The more money in circulation, the less it’s worth. If our money was based on something stable like gold or silver, we wouldn’t have devaluation of your money.
When it comes to intervention around the world, where does our responsibility start and stop?
September 12th, 2011How do we know when it’s right to send our troops into harms way? Let me ask it another way, when should we intervene in the affairs of other governments? When we are threatened? When people in other nations are threatened? Should we ever allow leaders from other countries to direct the activities of our troops?
We must think twice before sending our troops into harm’s way, making sure they are actually fighting to protect our freedoms. Sure, there are times we need to help out somewhere in the world. “To whom much is given, much is required…”. But the Constitution is clear in Article 1 Section 8 that only Congress has the power to declare war. Today, our presidents have found a way to send our troops all over the world without congress declaring war. We aren’t naïve enough to think that we will always have peace in the world, but we are smart enough to know that war should be a last resort, and only when Congress (our representatives) declares it.
The free market is like a lemonade stand…
September 12th, 2011Let’s say you love lemonade and a new lemonade stand opens up on the corner – 25c per cup. You stop and buy a cup every day. Then one day you get there and the sign says, $2.50 per cup. The 10-yr. old girl selling the lemonade tells you that she’s now required to have a permit from the government that costs $50 per month. She had to raise her prices to pay the government. Did the government add 10 times the value to your cup of lemonade? Would you continue to pay $2.50 per cup so the government could get it’s $50 per month from you? What happens to the little girl’s business in a not-so-free market?
What do you think?
September 12th, 2011Nobody wants their property taken from them, right? But what is your property? I mean, what is really yours? If you earn money and save it, or buy stuff and keep it, is it yours? Even if you die and want it to be passed down to your loved ones? What if someone else wants it or needs it? What if the government says, “I get at least half of it when you die,” is that ok? When is it ok for the government to take what’s yours because it believes someone else needs it more than you?