Rescue and Restore America

Rescue and Restore America
A Commentary by J. D. Longstreet
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William John Henry Boetcker said the following:

“You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.

You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.

You cannot help little men by tearing down big men.

You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.

You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money.

You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.

You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.

You cannot build character and courage by destroying men's initiative and independence.

And you cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves.”

The question begging to be asked is: Why the dickens are we doing all these things (as a nation) today?

And, No! Abraham Lincoln is not the author of “The Ten Cannots.” The real author was “William John Henry Boetcker (1873 – 1962). He was an American religious leader and influential public speaker.

According to Wikipedia he was born in Hamburg, Germany, he was ordained a Presbyterian minister soon after his arrival in the United States as a young adult. Rev. Boetcker was raised in Erie, Pennsylvania and ordained in Brooklyn, New York.

He quickly gained attention as an eloquent motivational speaker, and is often regarded today as the forerunner of such contemporary "success coaches" as Anthony Robbins.

An outspoken political conservative, Rev. Boetcker is perhaps best remembered for his authorship of a pamphlet entitled The Ten Cannots. Originally published in 1916, it is often misattributed to Abraham Lincoln. The error apparently stems from a leaflet printed in 1942 by a conservative political organization called the Committee for Constitutional Government. The leaflet bore the title "Lincoln on Limitations" and contained some genuine Lincoln quotations on one side and the "Ten Cannots" on the other, with the attributions switched. The mistake of crediting Lincoln for having been the source of "The Ten Cannots" has been repeated many times since; most notably by Ronald Reagan in a speech he gave at the 1992 Republican convention in Houston.

There are several minor variants of the pamphlet in circulation, but the most commonly accepted version appears” above. (SOURCE)

Everything Rev. Boetcker says in his “Ten Cannots” is true. And yet -- we have a US government not only breaking all these common sense rules, but shattering them. And their malfeasance is taking a tremendous toll on our nation.

If the democrats are successful in punishing the rich with more and higher taxes, do you really think it is they only who will suffer? Do you actually believe they will suffer at all? Of course they won’t. It is you and I, the ordinary Americans of what used to be called the Middle Class, who will bear the weight of those taxes on the rich. The rich simply pass them along, or avoid them completely with their batteries of hi-powered tax lawyers who specialize in protecting their clients from such government levies.

Businesses do the same. They pass those taxes along in the prices of the products they sell to the public. And, when the tax burden becomes too heavy to pass along, they either close up shop, or move off shore where they can continue a profitable business.

Today, America’s economy is operating on borrowed money. The country continues to spend money we do not have thus placing a tremendous burden on the generations of American not yet born. It is THAT bad.

As the aphorisms above say:

“You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money.”

“You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.”

Buy, hey, the United States government, under the guidance of Obama and the democrats, is doing it every day. We are in a never-ending cycle of “borrow and spend.” We continue to dig the hole we are in deeper. They are going to bring about the total collapse of the US economic system and the political system if they are not soon removed from office.

Above Rev. Boetcker says: “You cannot build character and courage by destroying men's initiative and independence.” But that is exactly what Obama’s socialist agenda is doing to America.

America is on thin ice. In my nearly seventy years on this earth I have never seen my country in such dire straits. Arguably, the US is in more danger today than she was during the Second World War or the Cold War.

That is why the Mid-Term Election, this coming November, is so important. If America is to survive, we must rid ourselves of the menace to our existence. We cannot do that with democrats running the US Senate and the US House of Representatives. They must be relieved of the reins of power in the US. Unfortunately, we are stuck with Obama until 2012. But – we can stop most of his agenda dead in its tracks if we control both houses of Congress.

Look, there is a fight coming. So much depends on whether we can rescue our country at the ballot box. If we cannot, then all bets are off.

I do not want to see my country turn into a “Banana Republic” with a new “revolution” every couple of weeks and small armies, with tin pot generals in charge, roaming the countryside. But, I must tell you; it is most certainly not outside the realm of possibility.

America has been badly wounded by the socialist agenda of Obama and the Democrats. We can begin to bind up her wounds and restore her to health November 2nd, 2010.

America was once a “can do” country. We can be again. But first we must “Rescue and Restore America.” We begin when the polls open on November 2nd.

J. D. Longstreet

Is a Second American Revolution in the Offing?

Is a Second American Revolution in the Offing?

A Commentary by J. D. Longstreet

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Will there be a Second American Revolution as some are predicting? Frankly, I do not know. I sincerely hope it does not come to that.

Many American voices are calling out that if we wish to reestablish a new capitalist society after the collapse, we must consider every avenue. One can only prepare for the worst and hope for the best.

Rest assured, there will be no renewal as long as our government remains in the hands of the socialists and Marxists. We can begin the process of removing them from office in the Mid Term Election in November of 2010.

There are those Americans among us who believe a second revolution is as certain as tomorrow’s sunrise. They believe the countdown has begun.

I don’t think anyone in his or her right mind and aware of current events in the United States could possibly deny that The American government has failed the citizens of the US. And they have failed miserably.

The government is so completely out of touch with the people who sent them there to represent them and their concerns that it has bred a cascade of anger and frustration among the American electorate. Like a snowball rolling downhill, it has increased in size, intensity, volume, and the ability to crush, that which lies in its path. To say America is seething with anger is to voice an understatement that would certainly break any stand records.

I am not an academic, and I am not and expert on history, although I consider myself to be something of an amateur historian, and I have spent a lot of time and stuffy on the era of the American Civil War and the causation of that bloodiest of all American wars. I have to tell you, dear reader, the parallels between the government’s relationship with the American citizen is so like that which existed in the 1840s and 1850s, the two decades or so before the shooting began that it is not only amazing, it is down right scary.

American citizens are preparing for what they perceive will be a battle to reclaim their country from the Socialists, the Marxists, the Progressives, and the odd Communist, or two, tossed in among the far left liberals. I told you it is frightening.

Contrary to what you may think, I am no wild-eyed revolutionist. What I am is -- an American who loves his country and wants to preserve the US Constitution and the Republican form of government, which has served us so well since the republic, was founded.

It is clear the American Republic cannot survive if it continues on the path the Obama Administration and the Democratic Party controlled Congress has forced upon the American people.
Those who voted for Obama in 2008 wanted CHANGE, not “Chains.” However, it is now clear that “Chains” is what we have, not change.

I am convinced the only thing restraining Americans from manning barricades in the streets of America is the proximity of the Mid-Term Election in just a few weeks. Never in my adult life have I seen American citizens so anxious to get to the polls and cast a ballot repudiating and denouncing the Obama and Democratic Party agenda.

The Folks in the Obama Regime and Obama’s lapdogs in the Mainstream Media are pretending not to notice. But, believe me, they have noticed -- and they scared witless. They know what is coming in November.

Now here’s the thing, to win America back, we have to show up at the polls in staggering numbers. Obama’s legions are already at work trying to whip up their base into a frenzy and overwhelm the polling places in a tsunami of minority voters who have been totally unable to understand they are as indentured to Obama’s Plantation as their ancestors ever were to their 19th century plantation masters in the “Big House.”

If there is to be a second American Revolution, it must be won at the ballot box. And do not kid yourselves. It will not be easy. I think it is reasonable to expect voter intimidation by threats of violence to voters not enamored of Obama and intend to vote against those democrats who have rammed the Obama agenda down the throats of Americans.

But, only a purge of democrats from the US Congress will give America relief and allow us to reclaim our dearly beloved Republic we call America.

J. D. Longstreet