The State of the Union That You Will Not Hear Tonight

My fellow Americans, I am an ordinary citizen who believes it is necessary to speak of immigration, economics, taxation and character and leadership in a manner that will be lacking from either the heart or mouth of our current President of The United States of America. 

Immigration:  In spite of those who are choosing to continually rewrite it and denigrate it through falsehoods, the history of this nation is an open truth. The United States has always been a beacon to peoples of this world who long to be free.  Our nation’s past, with measurable fits and starts, has clearly shown the reality and truth of why immigration and cultural and economic growth go hand in hand. E pluibus unum,"Out of many, one", is not a myth.  In fact it was the de facto motto for the United States until 1956  when it was replaced it with "In God We Trust".

You and I are expected to believe and support the untruth that there is no moral and ethical difference between past immigrants and today’s. Immigrants from earlier days were people who really wanted their freedom to be a part and parcel of their future as American citizens. Earlier immigrants wanted to be Americans and they did what they needed to do to have it happen.They did not want to continue to be what they chose to leave.

Today's illegals (That is what they really are.) are people who openly state: I am here and I am going to stay because you cannot or will not stop me and I am entitled to do so. It is in our governments avoidance of written law and the absolute absence of truth that we have created this cultural monster. Look to Europe to see the consequences. We simply cannot continue to exist as a nation by choosing this course. This reality must change or it is all of us who will be forced to change. It will no longer be a united we but a them and an us.

Economics: Question: How do you go broke? Answer: Slowly and then fast. With very few exceptions, the looming specter of total national economic collapse has much in common with honesty and integrity and the clear understanding that someone will always be better off than you and someone will always be worse off than you.  Growing personal and cultural entitlement demands makes zero sense except to those who simply want and a government that provides it in return for a supporting vote.

My wife and I have raised two children who grew up hearing this explanation for the absence of almost everything: We cannot afford it! My wife and I did not add two very important words: right now! Hindsight tells me that we should have. I strongly believe most desires, acquisitions and life style changes can all be improved over time through self control and common sense thrift.  Many of the desires, acquisitions and life style changes desired by my family looked really good to everyone in our family but they were simply too expensive to risk a possible collapse of the family. 

There is no such thing as a free anything and yet individuals, families and your government all want and believe that they are entitled to those wants. Think long and hard right here and now. I believe a national collapse is coming. Would a plan leading to the successful acquisition of something be better than giving into the desire and then facing a collapse? I believe you and the government know the truth.

This country desperately needs people who are capable of saying simply: We cannot afford that right now. We believe that you need that and we will work to make it so but we cannot afford that right now and this is what we are going to do to make it so. 

What do you think??

Taxation: I strongly believe that the rationale for taxation is a lie. Taxation was created and originally made the law of the land in 1913 to finance World War 1 and has evolved to  support the ideologies of people who redistribute our monies and deem themselves smarter and better than the people like you and me. Do   you actually believe that an MIT professor is the only one who thinks you are stupid? Remember this, your taxes do two things that no one in government wants you to hear, know or understand clearly. The money you send to Washington creates jobs for lots and lots of people who claim to be hard at work for you. It also creates a larger and larger government. And, that government stresses and believes that only they can make your life better. Really?

Character and Leadership. Quoting from The Final Summit by Andy Andrews,  Abraham Lincoln says to Joan of Arc, “Does adversity build character? ... It does not.   If you want to test a person’s character, give him power. Continuing, Lincoln says, Now since we are concerning ourselves here with the very future of humanity, let me add one more thing. Power corrupts. Trust me on this. And because power corrupts, humanity’s need for those in power to be of high character increases as the importance of the position of leadership increases. We are discussing character, correct? Not intelligence. Great leadership is a product of great character. And this is why character matters."

Do we reward a man's intentions or his actions?