By Steve Rossiter ——Bio and Archives--May 25, 2023
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"The more people who own little businesses of their own, the safer our country will be, and the better off its cities and towns; for the people who have a stake in their country and their community are its best citizens." ~ John Hancock
Hancock identified one of the most important elements that resulted in the free and prosperous America we came to know and love. All small businesses depended on the quality of the product and the quality of the service in order to prosper. Small businesses had “skin in the game,” an investment in the quality of human relationships. Good service was rewarded by dollars, but dollars were the by-product of good service. The flaw in American and world culture today is that money has become the goal and product and service are only necessary evils.
"Statism needs war; a free country does not. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by producing." ~ Ayn Rand
Statists have been in control of America and much of the world since at least 1963 when John Kennedy was assassinated. Make no mistake, political party affiliation has nothing to do with Statism. Statism is a product of progressivism, socialism, communism, or in other words Marxism. Most Democrats are Statists, many Republicans are Statists, and what we now call “the Deep State” are Statists. Many Statists are in the various “private sector” corporations that do business with the government Statists. As Rand said, Statists (what President Eisenhower called the military industrial complex) needs war. The government pharmaceutical complex needs a biological war like COVID-19. Free counties need neither.
Statism survives by looting from the taxpayers and in modern America allowing criminal looters to shoplift with impunity from businesses big and small. Lawlessness works for the Statists. A free nation of laws does not permit either.
"America’s founding ideal was the principle of individual rights. Nothing more and nothing less. The rest-everything that America achieved, everything she became, everything 'noble and just,' and heroic, and great, and unprecedented in human history-was the logical consequence of fidelity to that one principle." ~ Ayn Rand
Individual rights are the foundational basis for the United States Constitution. The Constitution maximizes individual rights and severely limits the power of the federal government to interfere with those rights. Even Thomas Jefferson was worried about individual rights and big government.
"I think myself that we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious. Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have ... The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases. The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first." ~ Thomas Jefferson
Jefferson’s words ring true as we look at the massive United States government of 2023. In Jefferson’s time, the federal government was only a small fraction of the size of today’s federal government. Clearly, Jefferson understood human nature. The United States federal government is desperately trying to provide the invading force everything they need by taking away everything the American middle class has. Remember, the globalists are telling the world, they will own everything, and you will own nothing and like it. America’s success is the story of hundreds of millions of individual successes; the government didn’t do it.
"Individualism regards man - every man - as an independent, sovereign entity who possesses an inalienable right to his own life, a right derived from his nature as a rational being. Individualism holds that a civilized society, or any form of association, cooperation or peaceful co-existence among men, can be achieved only on the basis of the recognition of individual rights… " ~ Ayn Rand
Individual rights are being attacked every day under the Marxist administration of Joe Biden’s police state. The targets are those who are political opponents while criminality by his family and supporters is completely ignored. For 175 years, America had a justice system where justice was truly blind and criminals were punished, which resulted in a vibrant and prosperous America.
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When the Marxist Democrats and their corrupt minions started twisting laws and regulations to achieve their agenda, America started its slide down the slippery slope of tyranny, and America is no longer vibrant or prosperous. For four short years under President Trump, the downward spiral was reversed, and America was once again great, vibrant and prosperous until January 20, 2021, when in a single day the Marxist masquerading as President of the United States destroyed American prosperity.
"America's abundance was created not by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes. They did not starve the people to pay for America's industrialization. They gave the people better jobs, higher wages, and cheaper goods with every new machine they invented, with every scientific discovery or technological advance- and thus the whole country was moving forward and profiting, not suffering, every step of the way." ~ Ayn Rand
The big lie being promoted by the Marxist agents of Satan is that the American free enterprise system is somehow unfair. In truth it is the fairest economic system ever developed by mankind. What more could anyone want but an equal opportunity? Every American, at birth, has that opportunity. The Marxists would have you believe that everyone is a victim of somebody else. The only victims are those who decide for themselves to be victims.
There are unending stories by legal and illegal immigrants who have come to America with little more than the clothing on their back who have had tremendous economic success. These oppressed people from elsewhere recognize and take the opportunities America provides. Some natural born Americans look at these immigrant people and think they cheated somehow. They cheated alright, by working their butts off to do what any American has the opportunity to do.
Jefferson emphasized that “little businesses” were important to the safety of the American Republic. What do we have driving the economy of America today? Humongous corporations managed by elitists who think they will ultimately benefit as part of the globalist ruling class after the Great Reset. Most of the useful idiots don’t have a clue what their net worth needs to be to qualify as part of the New World Order’s ruling class, and they don’t qualify. Keep in mind how big business slowly but surely eliminates small businesses. Keep in mind how many small businesses were shut down, never to return, by the current government ruling class to save us from COVID. The New World Order has a plan, but privately owned small businesses are not in those plans.
“What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives everything its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated.” ~ Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine identified the problem with too many natural born Americans. Their freedom and opportunity came too cheaply. It was always there, and they didn’t have to do a thing to earn or appreciate it. Sadly, the public education (indoctrination) system denied or lied about American history, which would have led to a certain level of appreciation.
"It is impossible to govern the world without God. 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 implore his protection and favor." ~ George Washington
A forgotten secret for America’s success is the Founding Fathers commitment to God and the values espoused in the Christian Bible. Too many Americans have drifted away from these values and this is a fundamental reason for the collapse of civilization we are experiencing in America today. Failure to honor and respect God results in the evil and chaos we see in America in 2023. Ignore God and His protection and favor will go away.
In the last few years of the 18th century, 56 incredible men crafted a genius system of government whereby every individual had an opportunity to prosper as he or she wished. The result was an exceptional country that was the greatest, most prosperous, loving, and giving county in the history of the planet. That is the secret of America’s success.
Unfortunately, that very success and freedom has created the greedy, corrupt, and morally bankrupt creatures that may be the seed of her destruction. As good as the United States Constitution is, we are living with the reality that the evil creatures of Satan can take anything good and use it for their own evil purpose. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is the reality We the People are living today.
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After a 55 year career as a professional pilot in the military, in law enforcement, in the private sector, and in federal civil service, I am now retired.
In many of these positions I repeatedly took an oath to defend the United States Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic.