Opening remarks:
Education & Money
Since 1970 federal spending on education has increased approximately 375 %.
What do we have to show for it???
What we have are test scores that across the board have remained just about the same.
I will remind you that just this past week President Obama announced a desire for a 21 BILLION dollar INVESTMENT in education.
How much did the recent budget “battle” save us???
Don’t get me wrong, I LOVE President Obama. I also love Speaker Pelosi and Leader Reid too. Not only do I love them,I am very thankful for them!
During a hot summer about 235 years ago a few words were written in a document that would change the course of life for countless millions of people.
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights
that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
For a lot of people, this is where the words stop.
LET ME BE CLEAR…This is where my somewhat contentious remarks about the love of my current President and a few of like-minded progressives comes into play.
The Declaration of Independence continues on after “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”
And I quote, (pause)
“That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”
Pardon me for having to read from the paper, but I called and President Obama said he just wouldn’t be able to let go of the teleprompter tonight.
Thank you President Obama, Speaker Pelosi and Leader Reid for stirring the souls and coals of the quiet fires in the bellies of thousands and thousands of Americans like the ones here today. Thank you for reminding us that freedom is not free.Thank you for shoving the bitter and foul tasting medicine of your rhetoric and policies down our throats… that awful tasting medicine has begun to cure the ignorance and apathy among us.
Ladies and Gentlemen, our government isn’t of, by or for the people anymore.
Entitlements are and have been poisoning generations of Americans.
An example of this is:
Who washes a rental car????? How do you think people drive rentals?
You do not take care of something you have no investment in!
Only through the arrogance and ignornace of man could we go from a worldwide magnetic, intoxicating beacon of righteous leberty to an ever growing land of hedonism and moral decay; with no regard for the time honred virtues of truth, honor, integrity, sacrifice and humility
And may I offer a warning. I don’t think God will understand that you ignored, shunned and were ashamed of him throughout your life.
Some people may be wondering, “What do we do?” To those I say, in the absence of knowing what to do, do that which you know to be right.
As for the TEA Party folks & others who understand the meaning in my words this evening — We know that the answer is still as simple and as it was 235 years ago:
That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.
I will close with a quote that sums up my point in a way that only Reagan could.
“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.”
Thank you and thank God for continuing to bless the United States of America
— R. A. Grier