Here's a picture of CVN 76 USS Ronald W. Reagan.
Posted on 02/06/2003 12:56:25 AM PST by Reagan Man
Here's a picture of CVN 76 USS Ronald W. Reagan.
You are simply the best!
What little many Americans know of freedom, self reliance, and ethics they learned at your hands. After your departure, the Renaissance that you launched began to run into difficulties at the hands of the socialistic Democratic Party. Now your vision of "the shining city on hill" is once again becoming obscured by a developing fog that is poisoning the fruits of the labors of the American people.
Our current President, the son of your Vice-president and successor, is a fine man. But he was raised inside government and sees government as the solution to many of our country's problems. He lacks your vision and has failed to recognize that government is the problem. After the attack on America on September 11, he became focused on terrorism as the greatest threat to America and what little remaining freedoms we enjoy. With all due respect to Mr. Bush, he has forgotten that the only threat that can undo our freedom and the American dream is the enemy within our own ranks. No foreign threat will ever undo the United States as long as Americans retain a clear vision of freedom, self reliance, and remember God's Golden Rule of "Do unto others...". Now the socialistic Democrats have corrupted our courts, our Congress, and government at every level. Too many Americans now believe that other Americans owe them a decent standard of living, good health, and a life where risk has been completely removed. Our Constitution has no provision in it any where that provides for our Federal government to be an insurance company, but now the United States Federal government has become the largest insurance company in the history of the world. There is no provision in the Constitution that allows the federal government to be involved in education. But now the budget of the Department of Education is larger than the GDP of more than two thirds of the world's countries, and larger than the combined GDP of many at the lower end of the economic range.
America was founded on the premise that the government that governs least, governs best. It is beyond mind-boggling and beyond the reach of imagination that government now employees more people than the manufacturing segment of our country. There are more people interfering than pulling the wagon. And when we consider beneficiaries of the transfer payments, we have an economy where one third work, one third interfere with the work, and one third live as parasites sucking their sustenance by draining the fruits produced by others.
The "shining city on the hill" is still out there, but more and more it has become a useful carrot held out by Republican candidates who quickly forget once they have the reigns of government and its accompanying innumerable chains and whips.
Mr. President, we desparately need the Divine Guidance that inspired you to rise to the occasion and to make the dreadful personal sacrifices that you and your family made for the American Dream. If Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney do not have an as yet unrevealed agenda to restore the Constitution of the United States to its rightful role of limiting the government of the United States, then we are going to need someone else who will. We the People still have the power, but we lack the will because we lack the leadership to excercise it in a calculated and well directed manner.
Many of our potentially brightest minds and most able Americans are deterred from entering the political arena because of the need to raise money for political campaigns and the time required to pay your dues and work your way to the top of the political ladder. There is something to be said for experience, but when it comes to running government or politics, the education is far more likely to be in the realm of learning what is wrong than in learning "how to". And in the case of correcting the evils of government today, we need leaders that have not been infected, corrupted or otherwise poisoned by exposure. We need leaders that can start at the top and that can clean out the bottom unhandicapped by prior ties or biases. We need a leader, like you, that recognizes the threat and evils posed by government toward its own people, not one who grew up in government and considers government a friend of the people it serves. Most government bureaucrats do not see themselves as servants, but rather as policemen. They don't see themselves as fulfilling the needs or providing services to the public, but rather as policemen to see that the rules of government are properly enforced. And that new rules are established to keep the public in line.
Mr. President, there may be many Americans who would step up to the plate if it were not for the unpleasant prospect of raising money for political campaigns and the unpleasant prospects for the apparent necessity of learning the political ropes. Rush Limbaugh comes immediately to mind. Rush was at least one third of the force or election propellant that allowed Republicans to take control of Congress in 1994. Rush provided some of the ammunition that allowed Bush/Cheney to defeat the socialists in 2000. And Rush may have been the most important voice of restraint on the abuses perpetrated on the country by the Clintons. Rush has talked on numerous occasions wistfully about a run for President. Can there be any doubt in anybody's mind why Rush would not seek our nation's highest office at a time when the need for someone of his character and belief structure is so apparent? I hope you see this post Rush. Or that someone close enough to you sees it and calls it to your attention. You can be President. And there is way to fund your campaign without fund raising.
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