These two conflicting philosophies of life are worth pondering in a culture that has only known freedom and is willing to sacrifice it for a welfare check and some food stamps. The last paragraph in this work, in particular, is very import as it explains much of our current problems!

By RoseAnn Salanitri  — November 21, 2014

The biblical account of the Exodus contains some very interesting protests from people who had been in bondage for over 400 years. After being delivered from Pharaoh’s whips and witnessing incredible miracles, the Hebrews complained about only having manna to eat. Considering that they were in the desert, and God had supplied for their needs as well as delivering them from the cruelties of pharaoh, you would think that they would be elated to finally be free. However, they looked upon their time of bondage in Egypt with longing since there they had fish and onions. While this complaining can be hard to understand, it makes a certain amount of sense when you consider that all they had ever known was slavery, which included a large degree of dependency. They did what they were told, or they suffered the consequences; but their food and shelter was provided. Dreams were non-existent, but neither was there pressure to get ahead and provide for one’s family. As odd as it may seem, this co-dependency between pharaoh and the slaves provided a strange comfort zone. To be sure, life was hard for the Hebrew slaves; but as we learned during their time in the desert, some preferred bondage to Pharaoh and dependency on him over the unknown of striking out on their own.

On the other hand, our Founding Fathers grew up in an America where liberty reigned – at least until an overly ambitious king realized he could flex his muscles and impose unjustified regulations and taxation upon them. To a people who only knew liberty, risking all they had to defend their freedom was preferable to living under the heavy hand of a tyrant. Patrick Henry’s famous speech clearly and passionately stated that life is not so dear and peace is not so sweet as to be bought at the price of chains and slavery. However, some of the slaves in America (like the slaves in Egypt) also found comfort in living a dependent life. After the Civil War and their emancipation, many chose to stay on the plantations instead of facing the unknown. While we assume that life would have been better for them after the Civil War, very little is recorded about their lives on the plantation during that period of time. Unfortunately, we do know that blacks were persecuted in the South well into the 20th century; but still many chose to stay.

This love of liberty by those who only knew liberty and their disdain for bondage was also expressed during the WWII era through Churchill’s sentiments that it would be better to die fighting when there was no chance of victory than to live in bondage. But these sentiments seem only to be treasured by freemen who refused to live any other way than as freemen. And so the phrase “the land of the free and the home of the brave” may reflect more wisdom than we ever imagined; for freedom without bravery cannot exist. Those who only knew freedom during the time of the American Revolution and during WWII would rather die than submit to the chains of slavery. While the comfort zone for the freed Hebrew slaves was bondage, the passion for liberty and freedom thrived among the American Colonists and the 20th century Allied Powers. For them, freedom was not just a comfort zone; it was the only acceptable way to live. They relished the fact that with hard work and good decisions, one’s dreams could be achieved. If hopelessness and dependency are the hallmarks of bondage, dreams accompanied by a strong work ethic are the hallmarks of a people who refuse to submit to a yoke of slavery.

These two conflicting philosophies of life are worth pondering in a culture that has only known freedom and is willing to sacrifice it for a welfare check and some food stamps. Unlike the freed Hebrew slaves, today’s would-be slaves find the comforts of government entitlements acceptable and are strangely willing to sacrifice their dreams for a free cell phone or other government handouts. And like their Hebrew counterparts, for many of them, this is the only life they have ever known. Because modern day carpetbaggers and scalawags are willing to sow the seeds of hate to enslave them, they have ignorantly disregarded the true cost of these freebees. They are led to believe that items are somehow owed to them by complete strangers; and in the process of accepting mediocrity, their hopes and dreams are sacrificed on the altar of entitlements. Those who look to past attempts to establish Utopian societies understand that socialism leads to bondage. Predictably, those who believe a magnanimous government is the answer to all their woes will find that government to be maleficent instead of magnanimous, resulting in the death of all hopes and dreams for the general population.
What is a human being without hopes and dreams?

They are soulless and hateful – unrepentant and unloving. They are bound by the sins of their mothers and their fathers. They see nothing wrong with taking what someone else has worked for, since they have been led to believe that they are entitled to the fruits of someone else’s labors – which somehow represents some kind of injustice. Their slave masters don’t walk around with whips; they have microphones instead. They don’t just rob them of their freedom; they rob them of their souls. And so they choose hatred instead of love, bondage instead of freedom, and hopelessness instead of dreams.

Ultimately, the problem is much worse. Their hopelessness will become our hopelessness. Their hatred will infect our love, and their bondage will affect our ability to remain free.

How do you bring hope to the hopeless? How do you bring freedom to those who are comfortable in bondage? How do you teach those who hate to love? The Bible tells us we can wipe the slate clean if we are born again. But their preachers don’t preach the Gospel of Christ; they teach the Gospel of hate and social justice. Someway, somehow, this has to change; or the land of the free will soon become the land of slaves.

In 1873, Charles G. Finney, one of the Great Awakening preachers, stated:

“Brethren, our preaching will bear its legitimate fruits. If immorality prevails in the land, the fault is ours in a great degree. If there is a decay of conscience, the pulpit is responsible for it. If the public press lacks moral discrimination, the pulpit is responsible for it. If the church is degenerate and worldly, the pulpit is responsible for it. If the world loses its interest in religion, the pulpit is responsible for it. If Satan rules in our halls of legislation, the pulpit is responsible for it. If our politics become so corrupt that the very foundations of our government are ready to fall away, the pulpit is responsible for it. Let us not ignore this fact, my dear brethren; but let us lay it to heart, and be thoroughly awake to our responsibility in respect to the morals of this nation.”

Therefore, if God should decide to save America, the saving message must come from the pulpits. Not only must they restore hope to the hopeless; they must restore the voice of the church that has been silenced by the 1954 Johnson Amendment. The real problem for America isn’t government corruption or the scoundrels that fill the people’s house; it is the silent pulpits. If the pulpits were to obey God rather than man – or IRS rules – our children could experience living the same life of liberty and freedom we once knew. The church should be the conscience of the nation. Without conscience, the nation finds comfort in electing and re-electing representatives who lie, cheat, and play-along-to-get-along. And as we are seeing, ambitious liars and cheats are transforming America into a land where the comforts of bondage reign over the hopes and dreams of a free people. The time to repeal the Johnson Amendment has come. The time for the pulpits to start becoming the voice of God and the conscience of the nation has come. If the pulpits remain silent, so many will choose the comforts of bondage that the great American experiment will cease to exist. May our pulpits come alive and defy Caesar’s gag order, and may God have mercy on America.

What we know from history is that politics governs everything from what you eat, to what your life will be like, to how it will end. The issue has always been who controls you, you or someone else?

Republicans starting with Thomas Jefferson believed that the Individual citizen could make better choice for the overall good of any country than any central government ever could. That basic view drives the conservative base of the Republican Party yet today. The premise is that left to their own devices the collective actions of the citizens under a constitutional rule of law country not subject to the whims of political factions would best serve the interests of all.

Democrats especially progressive Democrats believe that the people, the citizens, are incapable of governing themselves and they the “elite” need to be given the power to rule so that they can project the common man. 5000 years of history has proven that anyone that really believes that is a fool! Those that desire the ultimate power over our lives have worked very hard to get us to believe in them but it has not worked as they planned since the common man is a lot smarter than they can ever comprehend.

The core premise of our constitution was the people formed the states and the states made the laws to create order and opportunity for all. The states, not the people, created the national government to protect the states and create a system of commerce that favored no one over the other. That was the basis for the US Constitution.

Today we are faced with a political system that has lost its way, to be kind! Progressive democrats and some republicans would like to see a stronger federal government with the purpose to promote their world views. What both fall to see is that central control itself is flawed and can never work except to give those in power the ultimate power. So today we are faced with a lawless President intent in remaking American (which is not debatable since he has campaigned on it twice) however he never explained what he was going to make us into! That is now very clear and it’s an all powerful central government that has total control of its people (citizens no longer exist as they have no power).

Last Thursday November 20, 2014 the president announced a new policy on immigration which was not his to do. Executives Orders are only the means to enforce the laws of the country as passed by the US Congress. The immigration system, itself is not broken, the broken part is selective enforcement and executive orders that are really not executive orders but are rules that are in effect law.

So we have a debate today on what to do? And the general opinion in the media is that we should approve the Immigration reform bill now in the house. However that makes no sense since the November 4, 2014 election, only a few weeks ago, was a reformation on the Administration’s current policies and whether they should be continued or not? The voters agreed with the Republicans’ that they wanted the current direction being implemented by Obama to be stopped and to do that have given the Republicans a solid majority in both the House and the Senate.

Since the President has veto power and since the Senate required 60 votes to overcome objection to new laws the process to making change is not easy, as our founders rightly make so. So in my opinion as a lay person this is what I would do.

Number one is to stop the continuing resolution process and approve the 12 appropriation bills that make up the federal governments operating budget. They should do this with the changes that they would like but after the president veto them they should compromise and get the best deal they can and then pass them. While doing this they should explain to the Citizens what they are doing and why. The president may get his way but he will be made to look like someone that only wants his way and is not willing to compromise.

In addition to the normal budgeting process a separate bill for funding the security of the southern border should be passed in the house and sent to the Senate. Since it is a budget related bill authorizing money it will only need 51 votes to pass not 60. I don’t know the exact means to do this but spending billings are not subject to the 60 vote threshold by Senate rules.

The legislation should be short and concise something like the “entire” southern US Border (no exceptions) will have a physical barrier constructed to eliminate illegal crossing by 2018 and the funding is Herby authorized, further this authorization cannot be changed by future congresses. Work will commence no later than January 31, 2015 and be completed by December 31, 2018. This barrier with be above and below ground and have appropriate electronic and optical sensors as required. The objective is mandated that the southern border is 100 % secure.

At the completion of the border security project and only on completion of the border project congress will address the problem of those have entered the country illegally and are still here. In general those that are here and want to be assimilated into American culture will be allowed to become citizens with one exception and that is they cannot vote for any federal office holder or initiative e.g. constitutional amendments’. If they would agree to go to the back of the line and end up back in the country that limitation would be waved as they would then have entered legally.

This amnesty of sorts would not apply to anyone that had a criminal record (juvenile or not) in the country they came from nor if they acquired a criminal record once in American, traffic infractions could be waved. All in this category would be found and sent back to where they came from.

The provisions of this law would take affect the day it became laws and anyone who entered illegally after that date would be deported no exceptions. Anyone in the Country when the law went into effect would be required to register within 90 days with the INS and at that point their status would be determined. Special work or residences authorizations cards would be issued and anyone that didn’t have one would not be allowed to hold a job or be in this country. It would not be against the law to ask anyone for an ID card or other prove of citizenship in America. And anyone who hired a non citizens without a work card would be fined .01% of their gross revenues per day from the time that person was hired!

The purpose of this law is to secure the border to prevent smuggling and make sure there are jobs for American citizens.

Darren, I’m a formed US Army officer (Green Beret) from the Vietnam era as one officer to another take this advise very very seriously. There are those of us who are a bit older and who know better that to talk to anyone in the media or in politics they will use you and throw you away! Tough it out dud! There are many of us who will what your 6!

The Muslim Brotherhood and all its minions and sub and sister organizations need to be banded from the country NOW.

Sharyl is very credible and what she reports should be taken very seriously!

There is no end to this mans madness!