A word map of how to save our nation
by Rense Johnson, Chairman
Citizens for Term Limits … for a fresh Congress!
November 7, 2008
Much is being written about the imperative need for the Republican Party to redefine itself.
I won’t argue with that. It has been when the GOP has abandoned its conservative values that it has paid a huge price in voter approval.
Case in point: Republicans reneged on their own Contract With America, the centerpiece of which was congressional term limitation. To their everlasting shame, they decided that once they had been rewarded by the voters for their grand promise — they decided that they, the welching Republicans, no longer needed those voters.
Ha!
And, deservedly, voters have been punishing them ever since.
The Republican Party is no no longer the Conservative Party.
Where have the conservatives gone? Into the minority of the minority.
Sadly, today’s Congress is a reflection of America’s deteriorating culture.
It is no wonder that our culture has deteriorated, with biblical precepts and family values out the window, when our U. S. Congress is led by people without scruples or conscience.
We desperately need a Congress composed of our best and brightest, to lead out of this cultural swamp.
When we finally get a Congress with no career politicians, the makeup of Congress will then be the kind of people who go to Washington to serve. Meaning, to serve their neighbors and their country instead of themselves.
But — when the objective is service instead of the kind of self-service we have now, party differences can be subordinated to the common objective of service to the country.
The common objective will then be the common good. Will there be differences of opinion? Of course. Honest differences. Even families have honest differences of opinion.
A very welcome byproduct of term limitation will be that leadership can then be chosen by merit rather than by seniority.
But while all the foregoing tells us the kind of people we need to lead us, it doesn’t tell us what needs to be done.
Dr. Leo Richard is Vice Chairman of Citizens for Term Limits. A deep thinker and student of the markets extraordinaire. Dr. Richard tells us that our proposed constitutional amendment is the first step toward monetary reform — that is to say, a return to the gold standard. That would be the same gold standard stolen from the nation over 75 years ago by Franklin D. Roosevelt. (See our link titled Forgotten Anniversary Haunts the Nation by Antel E. Fekete.)
Had the nation been able to stay on the gold standard (without FDR’s treachery), certainly the economic agony of recent months would never have occurred.
Think of mortgage mistakes, homes lost, unemployment, bank failures, Fannie May and Freddie Mac.
A gold standard would also have kept the Federal Reserve from creating trillions of dollars out of thin air.
When the “price” of gold is discussed, the meaning is a long way from the value of the metal. Why? Because price is actually a reflection of the value of the currency measuring it. Today’s U. S. Dollar is worthless. How can it be otherwise when the Federal Reserve prints trillions of them at will. We are fooling ourselves (and being misled by our government) if we believe otherwise.
This explains how long-time American corporations are being bought up by foreign companies. Who would have thought that the very symbol of beer in America, Anheuser Busch, would have been bought out by a Belgian firm — doubtless wanting to act before we as a nation discover that our dollar no longer has value.
Veteran writer Richard Russell, editor of the Dow Theory Report, is on record as believing that the “price” of gold and the Dow Jones Industrial Index will at some point intersect — gold ascending, and the Dow descending.
Watching the DJI plunge since the election makes that prediction look more credible.
All of which could have been avoided had we stayed on a gold standard.
This is all past history.
But future history can only be changed by constitutionally mandated congressional term limits.
The required constitutional amendment is imperative for the future of our country, our innocent children and their unborn issue.
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