We Must make a Stand for what is Right!

I am Amazed! Amazed at how we have lost our way as a country. The famous words spoken by John F. Kennedy have been forgotten..."Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country." These are not just words. They are the sentiment behind the greatness that has lead this country forward for over two hundred years. For generations the understanding and feeling of sacrifice for the betterment of the country was part of our moral fiber. With great sadness, yet full of pride, wives and parents said goodbye to their sons, and more recently daughters, as they went off to defend the needs and interests of this great land.

This seems to be no longer the case. We have arrived at a place where people can stand willingly in line for several hours for "free" money handed out by the government with no thought at all for where that money came from or what price you are paying for it. The chant "Obama..Obama" can be heard in these lines as though he is some great savior sent to redeem these people from some aweful unfairness. Blindly they follow him with outstretched arms to receive the crumbs falling from his beneficent hands. Like Hansel and Gretel being lead to the ovens while gorging themselves on the "free" goodies provided.

We have reached a place where common decency and a genuine caring for those truly unable to care for themselves no longer satiate our hunger. With good intentions we started programs to help those truly deserving. With great speed the corruption of these programs followed as politicians learned, what Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin warned against, that votes are more easily won by giving from the treasury than by hard decisions and doing what is right for the country. To HELL with the consequences.

We have reached those consequences. We have a debt that can no longer be sustained. We are not talking "choose" to sustain it, but actually, literally cannot sustain it. Just as the Soviet Union fell, not by invasion, but by the laws of economics. We have reached that end. We have a choice to make. We can either do what is right for the country or not. We can make a decision that will leave Freedom and this great Country as an inheritance to our children or we can worry about "what's in it for us". Please take a stand.

I have sent the follwing letter to all of my Representatives. Please, if you agree with me then send your own letter expressing your views and concerns. Become involved. Let them know you will be involved in either their re-election or their defeat. Please....Please....Stand Up!

Dear Senator,
I am writing you to voice my great concern about the upcoming vote concerning Healthcare. I have been in the healthcare industry for over twenty years. Never have I been concerned about the future of healthcare in America until now.

With lightening speed it seems that forces have conspired to not only demonize those in the field of medicine, but the industry itself. They use entities such as the AMA and AARP as examples of the good that this bill contains. They do not publicize the fact that only 17% of all physicians are members of the AMA, they do not speak for physicians, in fact quite the opposite. AARP supports this bill because they are poised to make billions off of providing the now mandatory Medicare Gap insurance. To say they support the bill for any other reasons is disingenuous. Otherwise they would not hide the fact of their making Billions off of the changes.

I know dozens of physicians, from all walks of life and specialties, and to almost a person they agree that with the passing of this bill up to 25% of physicians will retire. It is almost a certainty that 10-15% would retire within 6 months. This would be not only a devastating blow to the healthcare system in terms of waiting times and providing for the sick and injured. But this would add to the unemployment rate of the country as tens of thousands of office staff and support people would be laid off from physician offices that close down. I know this to be true as this is the plan in the office I manage. We would have no choice; if the physician leaves there is no business.

With the retirement of these physicians we would lose the vast majority of the physicians with the greatest amount of experience and knowledge. These are the physicians who have been out of school long enough to pay back their loans and make their money. These are the teaching physicians! This would leave physicians to fill our Emergency rooms and surgical suites who have the least amount of experience to deal with a growing elderly population.

I cannot express how concerned and frightened I am for the future of this Country. This is not what the Founders envisioned. Politicians long ago learned that in order to keep their power all they needed to do was give the people they represented money. They do this by giving one entitlement program after another to the people. Instead of making the tough decisions and telling the people no, like parents of spoiled children they consistently say yes, when the best interest of the child is a strong NO. You are as much to blame concerning this as all the rest.

However, I am writing now in hopes that the lessons have been learned. The spoiled child has run amuck. He is in trouble with the law, the law of economics. The country is literally about to implode, succumbing to its own debt. Let me please remind you that every great country or empire in the past failed not from military conquest but by internal failings, most often economic collapse.

For some reason, lost to me, people seem to think that America will always be here. That we as citizens and elected representatives can do whatever we want and somehow it will not have lasting consequences to the country and the stability of it. The Soviet Union fell by economics not an invasion. We can literally destroy this country. Ask the Romans, Syrians, Greeks, Persians, Britain, Spain, it is very possible for countries to collapse, for empires to cease to exist, for greatness to dwindle.

Senator, unless you vote no to this legislation and continue to vote no to spending, not just diminishing the amount of money, but actually say no more money. We too as a country will fail. The beginnings are already in the works. You have been elected to represent me and my family, as with all the families of Utah. Please sir, do your job and vote no to this bill.

I would quake in my boots and not sleep well at night if I thought that due to my actions and pursuit of power I was involved with the failing of the greatest country that has ever existed. It is more than about you, represent the people who sent you to Washington and vote no to any more spending.

Sincerely,

Jeffrey D. Wood

Things every American should know

There are certain things that each and every American should know to be responsible and good citizens. Unfortunately, most if not all of these things are not taught in public education.


This is not everything you should know, as that requires continuing education and involvement in current politics and government, but the basics that will help you understand your role as a citizen in this, the greatest Country every created by man.


They are:

1. The American Independence movement didn't start in 1776. That is when 37 brave men committed treason by signing their names to a document announcing their commitment to Independence. It had been moving forward for the space of almost 20 years by that time.


2. The war of Independence lasted 5 years. Longer than WWII. From 1776 to 1781. It ended with the treaty of Versailles in Paris.


3. The Constitution did not exist then. We had at the end of the war what was known as the Articles of Confederation. A loosely worded document that gave no power to any central government, just an agreement with the states to TRY and work together.


4. The Articles of Confederation lasted 6 years. With not much if any thing being done because none of the States could agree with one another.


5. The Constitutional Convention began in late spring of 1787 and lasted until early fall 1787. It had 55 delegates attending. Not all States sent delegates. Not all delegates voted for it.


6. It took two years for the States to ratify (agree to) the Constitution, from 1787 to 1789. George Washington was sworn in as the first President in the Spring of 1789. 13 years after the start of the war.


7. The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the Constitution deal with Slavery and it's abolishment in the Country. For over 100 years it was the Democrat party voicing its opposition to these amendments and trying to subvert them. While the Republican Party were fighting for and advocating for freedom of all blacks.


8. The U.S. Supreme Court failed to uphold these amendments with one of its rulings. Headed by a Democrat Chief Justice and a Democrat President. This allowed the practice of segregation to be used and proliferate for almost 100 years.


9. The 19th Amendment gave the right to vote to Women. This came after Strong opposition by a Democrat controlled Congress and a unsympathetic Democrat President. Several Women went to prison and suffered untold hardships. This process went on for almost 40 years to allow all women the right to vote.

Corruption was one of the greatest worries of the Founding Fathers. A quote:

"He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life, is, or very soon will be void of all regard for his Country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his Country, who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections." Samuel Adams, A letter to James Warren, November 4, 1775.

Take care to pay attention to what is going on. Stand Up for what is right and help save this great Country.

ENOUGH!

I know I need to do better. It has been quite some time since I wrote on this. I encourage all readers to write, non-stop, your Representatives and express similar sentiments.

Dear Senator,
I am very disheartened by what is going on in Washington. I never thought in my wildest dreams that America would be turning to the course that it is. We need to slow down and return to the heading we were on the first 100 years of this country’s existence. Unfortunately, I don’t see you doing that. It seems to me that you are so worried about getting re-elected that it is no longer IF we need the programs, but how do we tweak it in a Republican way. I refute this notion.
We do not need Government health care, and we don’t need government getting in the way….not any longer. What we do need are strong willed representatives who will say STOP IT! And STOP IT NOW. We need representatives who will start cutting and, here’s a novel idea, actually eliminating programs and entire departments.
We no longer have the money…PERIOD! Sadly it seems to me that you are choosing not to be fiscally conservative with my money. Your way of thinking is the same as the Democrats of the 90’s, hollering that if we reduce the amount of growth of a program then it is a cut. That is what Republicans in both houses are sounding like. Instead of saying NO, JUST PLAIN NO, you and your counterparts are saying “let’s have the program just not as big as the Democrats want”.
This is what you and all of the other Representatives need to understand, it is not the size of the program or the degree to which the government is involved with it. IT IS THE PROGRAM!
It is as though poverty, illness, and sadness didn’t exist in the first 150 years of this country. When the Founders were framing the Constitution and stating to what extent the government would get involved they knew people were then, just as they are now, sick, hungry, poor and had the chance to be miserable. It isn’t that they didn’t care, in fact they cared greatly. They knew the best way to help the most was for government to get out of their way and to allow people to experience poverty as the best motivator to self improvement.
Several of the Founding Fathers wrote about this and the problem with government trying to solve it. In essence saying “Once government sees that they can vote themselves a raise and give money to the poor, essentially buying votes, then the Republic is in danger”.
Sir that is what you have done. You have CHOSEN to discard the wisdom of the people who wrote the plan and have backed several attempts at doing precisely what they cautioned against. And now you want to say that “well I’m not at fault for the problem”. Yes you are and you continue to be. Until you have the spine to stand against the Washington Machine and say ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! And actually start repairing some of the damage, then you are to blame as well as your colleagues.
I am no longer going to be a part of this. Come the first chance that I have I am going to vote you out of office. You might still win, but at least I can hold my head up and know I said ENOUGH! Not anymore, not on my watch. When I die and I meet the Founding Fathers and they ask me what I did to preserve the Constitution and uphold Freedom for the world as a shining example for all. I will know I did my best.
Sincerely,
Jeffrey D. Wood