When the Lord answered my prayers for a godly woman to come into my life and become my wife, He did more than I prayed for. He also brought into my life a godly family grounded in their faith, believing in the inerrancy of the Bible and, as Travis writes about so eloquently, "Creedal Christians". Please read Travis Hutchinson's "CREEDAL CHRISTIANITY: THE USE OF CREEDS IN THE MODERN CHURCH"
My father-in-law is an engineer/farmer/builder extraordinaire and has a refreshingly straight forward "former times" conservative view. He is the one that suggested that I read the PatriotPost.US and I've never regretted the decision to follow that very sage advice.
Mark M. Alexander is the founder of the PatriotPost.US. He is one very accomplished conservative in the mold of William F. Buckley, Ronald Reagan and many of our founding fathers. Please read his history HERE.
I have prefaced this column by the previous one, "The Patriot Post - Our Vision", because I want all to understand the foundation from whence spring forth the ideals that are expressed in the PatriotPost.US writings.
Here are 5 very important writings that are highly recommended reading:
1. PatriotPost.US 08-32
THE FOUNDATION: COMMERCE
“The prosperity of commerce is now perceived and acknowledged by all enlightened statesmen to be the most useful as well as the most productive source of national wealth.” —Alexander Hamilton
2. Demonomic deja vu
"I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents...." --James Madison
The current "change" in economic policy, as proposed by the latest protagonist of Leftist ideology, can best be summed up in the inimitable words of that great philosopher Yogi Berra: "It's deja vu all over again."
Politicos come and go, but the essential philosophical divergence between conservatives and liberals remains as stark today as ever. That disparity is most evident in how conservatives and liberals have always viewed the role of government, and its policies concerning taxation, spending and regulation.
While one may correctly argue that the majority of elected Republicans do not justly honor the conservative principles set forth in the Republican Party Platform, the majority of Democrats certainly march in lockstep behind their Leftist despots, and their electoral lemmings are close behind. (As George Bernard Shaw once noted, "A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.")
So what informs the two distinctly different visions from the Right and Left?
3. "To secure these rights..." -- The Bill of Rights
"The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for, among old parchments, or musty records. They are written, as with a sun beam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power." --Alexander Hamilton
Saturday, 15 December, is the 216th anniversary of the adoption of the Bill of Rights, the first Ten Amendments to our Constitution, as ratified in 1791.
The Bill of Rights was inspired by three remarkable documents: John Locke's 1689 thesis, Two Treatises of Government, regarding the protection of "property" (in the Latin context, proprius, or one's own "life, liberty and estate"); in part from the Virginia Declaration of Rights authored by George Mason in 1776 as part of that state's Constitution; and, of course, in part from our Declaration of Independence authored by Thomas Jefferson.
4. The Patriot Post-Party Platforms - A History
From the 2004 Democratic Platform - ACHIEVING ENERGY INDEPENDENCE:
"We will work to create new technology for producing electricity in a better, more efficient manner. Coal accounts for more than one-half of America's electric power generation capacity today. We believe coal must continue its important role in a new energy economy, while achieving high environmental standards. Working with the coal industry, we will invest billions to develop and implement new, cleaner coal technology and to produce electric and hydrogen power. We will also work to make sure that our people have access to an affordable, secure, and reliable supply of electricity at all times. We support mandatory, enforceable reliability standards. We also support public-private partnerships to make our power systems more flexible, resilient, and self-healing—and more environmentally friendly than ever before."
Pardon me but we already have the most stringent environmental laws and so many laws and regulations that the price of conformance is astronomically expensive. And where are they going to get the "billions" to invest? Yes sir, Mr. Smith. They will take it right out of our pockets and waste a large portion in the massive bureaucracy that will have to be created to oversee the investments. I don't know about you but I think that is just another form of robbery. Why would I want to give my money to the most inefficient investor? I don't want anyone forcibly taking my hard earned money and investing it in ways that I vehemently disagree with. That is robbery pure and simple.
5. A Comparison of FairTax, Income Tax, and Flat Tax
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