And is now meaningless to most.
What a wonderful Fourth of July. NOT.
This will be declared hate speech by 0bama and the Democrats before it’s over.
“That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government”
The time for that to happen is now.
The 56 signatures on the Declaration appear in the positions indicated:
Column 1
Georgia:
Button Gwinnett
Lyman Hall
George Walton
Column 2
North Carolina:
William Hooper
Joseph Hewes
John Penn
South Carolina:
Edward Rutledge
Thomas Heyward, Jr.
Thomas Lynch, Jr.
Arthur Middleton
Column 3
Massachusetts:
John Hancock
Maryland:
Samuel Chase
William Paca
Thomas Stone
Charles Carroll of Carrollton
Virginia:
George Wythe
Richard Henry Lee
Thomas Jefferson
Benjamin Harrison
Thomas Nelson, Jr.
Francis Lightfoot Lee
Carter Braxton
Column 4
Pennsylvania:
Robert Morris
Benjamin Rush
Benjamin Franklin
John Morton
George Clymer
James Smith
George Taylor
James Wilson
George Ross
Delaware:
Caesar Rodney
George Read
Thomas McKean
Column 5
New York:
William Floyd
Philip Livingston
Francis Lewis
Lewis Morris
New Jersey:
Richard Stockton
John Witherspoon
Francis Hopkinson
John Hart
Abraham Clark
Column 6
New Hampshire:
Josiah Bartlett
William Whipple
Massachusetts:
Samuel Adams
John Adams
Robert Treat Paine
Elbridge Gerry
Rhode Island:
Stephen Hopkins
William Ellery
Connecticut:
Roger Sherman
Samuel Huntington
William Williams
Oliver Wolcott
New Hampshire:
Matthew Thornton
Here, on July 4, 2014, when we ponder the premise of this very special day, that it means that those fine and hard-working people 228 years ago rightly and courageously chose to disconnect themselves and become INDEPENDENT from a distant, disconnected, oppressive government entity, and we now find ourselves here with more people DEPENDENT on a distant, disconnected, oppressive government entity than ever before in world history.
It’s so sad.....
Created...... that is an instant in time.
From that moment total equality ceases as some grow and others so not. Some relish life and the challenges and excel.
Others choose to shun the challenge, the learning, the quest. They become increasingly unequal.
As the in equality of mind and body grows, the reward for the former while the reward for the latter diminishes. That is the point of trouble.