This week we continue on the bailout and take some time to poke a hole in the myth that the UAW is all about helping out the American worker.  The UAW is about helping themselves at the expense of everyone else, including the American worker.

The Common Patriot

If I were one of those people who never read anything and always took the media at face value I would be inclined to believe wholeheartedly in the oft repeated assertion that our founding fathers were not only mean and selfish but also nearsighted and unable to comprehend the depth and breadth of the issues that would eventually face our nation.

Liberals tell us regularly in today’s world that George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and the rest of the oppressive, hate filled founding fathers wrote our constitution based on their narrow and bigoted view of the world.  They weren’t prepared for jet planes, worldwide telecommunications, the internet or multiculturalism.  That document and those ideas were probably fine for them but we need new ideas and more flexible rules for our growing, more sensitive society.

HOGWASH!!

It was not our founding father’s understanding or prescience with regard to technology or infrastructure that made the founding documents so elegant.  It was not a Nostrodamus like view of our world today that gave them guidance as they constructed the greatest charter and laid the framework for the greatest nation on earth that was so profound.  Put most simply it was our founding father’s understanding of human nature, right and wrong, the human soul and the avarice of mankind that made them so brilliant.  It was their understanding of these things and their simple faith in the providential hand of God that brought us the freedoms and liberties we enjoy more than 200 years later.

In his 1st inaugural address George Washington said that “No People can be bound to acknowledge and adore the invisible hand, which conducts the Affairs of men more than the People of the United States. Every step, by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation, seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency.”

Washington frequently acknowledged the hand of God in the affairs of men and did so with a zeal that would horrify those in politics today.  He frequently extolled the virtues that did and would continue to distiguish the American people in the “experiment” that we had undertaken.  He went on to state the following:

“since there is no truth more thoroughly established, than that there exists in the economy and course of nature, an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness, between duty and advantage, between the genuine maxims of an honest and magnanimous policy, and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity: Since we ought to be no less persuaded that the propitious smiles of Heaven, can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right, which Heaven itself has ordained: And since the preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the Republican model of Government, are justly considered as deeply, perhaps as finally staked, on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.”

Not much there in common with men like Blagojevich, Frank, Kennedy, et al.

But the views of these men were also so much more prescient than just their understanding of our being a recipient of the providence and favor of Almighty God.  They knew, as well, that we would face myriad dangers and challenges to our state as a free and independent people.  In Washington’s farewell address he made the following point.

“The unity of government which constitutes you one people is also now dear to you. It is justly so, for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquility at home, your peace abroad; of your safety; of your prosperity; of that very liberty which you so highly prize. But as it is easy to foresee that, from different causes and from different quarters, much pains will be taken, many artifices employed to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth; as this is the point in your political fortress against which the batteries of internal and external enemies will be most constantly and actively (though often covertly and insidiously) directed, it is of infinite moment that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national union to your collective and individual happiness; that you should cherish a cordial, habitual, and immovable attachment to it; accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the palladium of your political safety and prosperity; watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned; and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our country from the rest, or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the various parts.”

When our liberal friends cherry pick their statements to show, ostensibly, that the founding fathers were not quite so forward looking or thinking as they actually were they will steadfastly avoid such statements.  Washington’s own words put the lie to the assertion that they could not have known the troubles and complexities we face in today’s world.

Moreover, Washington cautioned us regarding the removal of morality and religion from our system.  His words ring perhaps more true today than they did in his own time but certainly no less so.

“Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens. The mere politician, equally with the pious man, ought to respect and to cherish them. A volume could not trace all their connections with private and public felicity. Let it simply be asked: Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice ? And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.”

These statements and so many others of our founding fathers run in direct contradiction to our friends on the left.  These statements contradict the moral relativists and challenge the secular humanists with their foreshadowing nature.  The enemies of this nation want us to believe that the ideals and truths of our founders were little more than high minded rhetoric intended to rally the people and maintain the tight reins of control on the populace.

How can people with any intellectual honesty put forth an idea that postulates we are better off with rampant crime than with a society that adheres to peaceful and moral principles.  George Washington stated that such a person would “claim the tribute of patriotism” in vain.  I suppose that is one of the reasons that our secular-humanist, environmentalist, relativist friends labor so ardently at discrediting all vestiges of patriotism and American pride since they themselves can see no value in such “outmoded” feelings.

For my part I will take what was said by Alexis de Tocqueville to be far more telling and important than all the words of all the liberal intelligentsia from here to eternity.

“America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.”

You ponder that one for a bit and get back to me when you make up your own mind.

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We’re in the garage and tinkering with the mess that is the current U.S. economic picture.  The politicians are having a ball with our money and we’re not very happy about it.  Why can’t these bums get real jobs?

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The Garage Crew

The newest edition of Garage Politics is up and ready for our listeners.  We’re focusing on self-reliance and the good old American spirit of doing it yourself.  The basic theme this week is that we need to depend on ourselves as a nation and as Americans rather than on government or any other group to fix our problems.

Hello and greetings to all of our fans and listeners out there.  This is Buzz and I just wanted to first off thank each and everyone of you that make our show a sucess each week, secondly I would like to say that it is unfortunate that I will be missing this weeks taping of the show due to illness

I love the show and am very dedicated to it’s future but I have a bad chest and bronchial cold that would keep me from talking for prolonged periods of time or doing my voices.  I do not want to get the other Garage Kings sick either so I must refrain from participating this week.  I will miss all of you listeners out there and look forward to a speedy recovery for the next show.  The good news of all of this is we here at the Garage are looking in to doing a couple of different 15 minute shows throughout the week done by each member.  My segment would be called the Weekly Buzz.  WOW, cool a 15 minute show with your host…..ME…haha.  Well God Bless each and every one of you and remember, stick to your morals, trust God in everything, Liberals and Liars both begin with L and mean the same thing, and most importantly listen to Garage Politics.  Actually God is most important but that was my punch in for the show.  Take Care.

Sincerely,

BUZZ

In a move reminiscent of virtually every other government agency or policy except for the candid nature of the communication, Hank Paulson and Ben Bernanke have informed the congress and the GAO that they’ll do whatever they please with all of that bailout money.  Guess what folks, despite outcries and protestations from congressional watchdogs like Barney Frank they’re going to do exactly as they say.  The reason that Paulson and Bernanke, who have already invested nearly half of the bailout money in purchasing the stocks of lending institutions and throwing billions at frugal organizations like AIG, can be so arrogant with congress is because of the nature of the legislation that created the bailout to begin with.  Our heroes in the house and the senate rushed headlong into a bit of a trap when they granted unfettered power to the financial “wizards” at the Fed and Treasury.  Now congress is threatening to withhold the additional 350 billion of the bailout funds but Paulson knows that thanks to the ill-conceived legislation he’s going to get the money anyway.  So, isn’t it wonderful that the pinheads in congress get a taste of their own medicine for a change.  They have allowed a pair of men to represent their interests and now they’re feeling slighted because said representatives won’t answer their concerns or provide more accountability.  Sounds a little bit like all of that money we ship off to Washington in our checks every week.

The sad part of the whole thing is that ultimately they’re both playing with our money so either way we get screwed.