A GOOD QUESTION

PRIME MINISTER OF GREAT BRITAIN, WILLIAM GLADSTONE, IN 1878 SAID, "THE AMERICAN CONSTITUTION IS... THE MOST WONDERFUL WORK EVER STRUCK OFF AT A GIVEN TIME BY THE BRAIN AND PURPOSE OF MAN." WHAT THE SAM HILL HAS LED TO THE LIQUIFACTION OF BRAIN MATTER AND LACK OF DIRECTION IN AMERICANS TODAY?

WEALTHY POLITICIANS PROMISE TO TAX THE WEALTHY BUT DECEIVE THE PUBLIC INTO THINKING THEY TOO WILL PAY THEIR FARE SHARE. AN AMERICAN IS HOODWINKED INTO THINKING THAT "RECKLESS LENDING" EXISTS WHEN IN REALITY IT IS RECKLESS BORROWING THAT ABOUNDS. THE ANSWER TO DEBT IS NOT "HOLISTIC FINANCIAL COUNSELING" OR RECONCILING DEBT "IN CONCERT WITH THE MORTGAGE." RATHER, SIMPLY STATED, A PERSON SHOULD NOT LIVE BEYOND HIS MEANS.

SINCE THE TIME OF SOCRATES AND HIS QUESTIONING DISCIPLES, PLATO AND ARISTOTLE, THE 'LONG DEBATE' HAS RAGED ABOUT THE NATURE OF REAL VALUES AND WHAT MAKES LIFE WORTH LIVING, THE GOOD LIFE. THE DYNAMIC TRIO, REALIZED THAT HUMANITY ONLY LEAVES CHILDHOOD BEHIND WHEN IT BEGINS TO CRITICIZE ITS CERTAINTIES AND WEIGHS THE WORTHINESS OF ITS BELIEFS.

IT'S TIME TO QUESTION THE REALITIES (CERTAINTIES) OF SOME OF OUR PREVALENT THINKING SUCH AS POLITICAL CORRECTNESS, HEDONISM AND VICTIMHOOD. IT'S TIME TO ASK WHY LIBERALS AND LIBERAL DEMOCRATS DISSOCIATE INDIVIDUAL INITIATIVE AND RESPONSIBILITY FROM AMERICAN GOALS. IT'S TIME TO ADMIT THAT POWER IS THE PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE, THE MEANINGFUL LIFE IS THE GOOD LIFE, THE CITIZEN HAS DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES TO HIMSELF AS WELL AS HIS GOVERNMENT.

MEN WROTE OUR CONSTITUTION. WHEN DID MEN IN AMERICA REGRESS INTO BOYS? I SUPPOSE THE BACKSLIDE BEGAN IN THE 60'S WHEN GIRLS JOINED THE BOYS IN THE PHILOSOPHICAL REVOLUTION CALLING FOR PERPETUAL YOUTH AND A POSITIVE NARCISSISM. THEIR BELIEFS MADE COMMON SENSE AND MONETARY AND PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY BORING.