My purpose in creating this blog is to provide a place where thinking people can find or publish  accurate information about the issues our nation is facing – in politics, economics, our constitution, society in general.  There is so much that is published and taken for revealed wisdom that is simply wrong. There is much that is taken to be true that is not.  There is much that is not reported at all and too much that passes through the lens of woke or cancel culture.

My purpose is to create a forum that provides facts and data that may help to counteract some of those ideas.  Finally, I want a place where my grandchildren can go to understand what their grandfather believes and they can learn to be skeptical and understand underlying premises and reasons behind the ideas that affect our nation.

What I Believe

  • The founding documents of our nation – the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Federalist Papers were written by men who had a deep understanding of human nature and problems and opportunities with every other form of government ever conceived.
  • Their most important legacy is the idea that rights come to man by virtue of their humanity alone and not given to them by governments or kings.  Those rights are timeless and everlasting. As expressed in the Declaration: “we hold these truths as self-evident; we are endowed by our creator with certain inalienable rights, among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” They put the individual and his rights as the foundation upon which all else is built.
  • Governments are instituted to secure those rights.  Governments should not be able to take those rights away or diminish them; indeed, they must institute those laws necessary to ensure those rights are maintained.

 

  • The Constitution  and the Declaration allowed the continued abhorrent practice of slavery, to our everlasting regret and shame. Our only defense to this decision is, had we not done so, there would have been no United States as we know it, no Constitution as we see it, and in those documents were the principles that lead to the bloodiest war in our history to rid us of this abomination 

 

The application of these foundational ideas allowed us to develop a flourishing  concomitant market-based economy, in which individuals are free to engage in voluntary transactions where each party believes the deal was fair.  That lead to the creation of the most vibrant and growing economy ever conceived in all of human history and, globally, the movement of billions of people out of a subsistence existence into a much more prosperous and healthy existence.

The vast wealth created in our capitalistic system allows us to provide an extensive and broad safety net for the less fortunate among us and an extraordinarily rich life for all of us. Those are the major and ongoing benefits of capitalism.

Laws are necessary to protect those rights and prevent or punish behaviors that violate these rights.

Over time, however, our governments have grown far too intrusive, too burdensome and too  large, principally because governments will always grow, unless constrained and because they are populated by people who believe that their expertise will create a better functioning economic system and a happier population. They believe this can be done without diminishing people’s freedom.

They are wrong on both counts.