Save the union. / Lose your job.
Seems like a pretty easy choice to me.
Lt. Col. Terry Lakin lost his job, his pension and was even incarcerated. He is standing pretty tall now.
There are others who not only lost their jobs but also paid the ultimate price..... If they can pay the ultimate price, we can find another job.....
Lakin and his family are true heroes. And so are those who have given the ultimate sacrifice to protect this nation and her Constitution from all enemies foreign and domestic.
They can stand proudly with those who penned the words of the Declaration of Independence that always choke me up:
“And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.”
Lakin lived up to that. Tyrone Woods lived up to that. Andrew Breitbart lived up to that. It seems like Edward Snowden lived up to that. I want to live up to that. My family is not all that eager to have me live up to it though and that is the hardest conflict of all. Somehow we need to make it clear to our families that there isn’t any other good option. He who gets eaten last still gets eaten.