McCain is right about country first.  This election, as every election, is about the foundation of our country, liberty.  We put America first when we understand liberty is our highest political priority, not the republican party.  Given the choices on the ballot, clearly the cause of liberty will be better served by a McCain/Palin victory in November.

The very idea is repulsing and offensive.  That liberal government doesn’t even trust citizens to responsibly and economically adjust their own thermostat is another glaring example of what happens when power beyond what is necessary for public security is centralized in government. 

Healthy relationships require a mutual trust.  Conservatives find this impossible when government holds more power than intended.  Liberals, however, put much confidence in such centralized political power.  Remarkably, the fact that their prefered form of government doesn’t trust them to set their own thermostat, somehow merits their trust. 

Why?  Why would anyone trust a centralized power, especially one that doesn’t return that trust?  What kind of warped realationship is this?

The question arises though; why would liberals want to invest government with any more power than it already has given the fact that conservatives will inevitably control one or more branches of government at various times in the future?  In other words if it is conservatives liberals fear, why afford future conservative administrations or legislatures more power and more money?

Both liberals and conservatives correctly acknowledge the threat of government to its citizens, but for some reason liberals think that their leaders are immune or somehow inoculated from the greed and ambition which plagues most government officials. Like any disease the risk of infection increases when its presence increases.  Increasing the power and money government holds and controls only increases the likelihood of corruption.  If history is any indicator, corruption is more than likely, it’s inevitable.

Given the reality that power and money corrupts, why would anyone think that the highest authority of the land would be better trusted with more of it?
And, why wouldn’t that power and money be better trusted to us, the citizens? 

As free citizens, free market forces operate to limit such a centralization of money and power, and citizens must answer to the authority for any illegal use of power and money.  Government operates free from these corrective influences.  So tell me please, why is government the solution to any of the social problems we face?

Whereas it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favor—and whereas both Houses of Congress have by their joint Committee requested me “to recommend to the People of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many signal favors of Almighty God especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness.”

Now therefore I do recommend and assign Thursday the 26th day of November next to be devoted by the People of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being, who is the beneficent Author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be—That we may then all unite in rendering unto him our sincere and humble thanks—for his kind care and protection of the People of this Country previous to their becoming a Nation—for the signal and manifold mercies, and the favorable interpositions of his Providence which we experienced in the tranquility [sic], union, and plenty, which we have since enjoyed—for the peaceable and rational manner, in which we have been enabled to establish constitutions of government for our safety and happiness, and particularly the national One now lately instituted—for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed; and the means we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge; and in general for all the great and various favors which he hath been pleased to confer upon us.


And also that we may then unite in most humbly offering our prayers and supplications to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations and beseech him to pardon our national and other transgressions—to enable us all, whether in public or private stations, to perform our several and relative duties properly and punctually—to render our national government a blessing to all the people, by constantly being a Government of wise, just, and constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed—to protect and guide all Sovereigns and Nations (especially such as have shewn [sic] kindness onto us) and to bless them with good government, peace, and concord—To promote the knowledge and practice of true religion and virtue, and the encrease [sic] of science among them and us—and generally to grant unto all Mankind such a degree of temporal prosperity as he alone knows to be best.

Given under my hand at the City of New York
the third day of October in the year of our Lord 1789.

George Washington

Clinton recently floated the idea of issuing a $5,000 bond to each baby born in the United States to help pay for college and a first home, but it immediately inspired Republican ridicule and she quickly said she would not implement the proposal.

She defended that decision yesterday, saying she is focusing on proposals with more political support and she is not formally proposing anything she can’t fund without increasing the deficit: “I have a million ideas. The country can’t afford them all.”