04-10-05: It's The Politicians, Stupid! by H. Scott Van Dyke

It’s The Politicians, Stupid!
by H. Scott Van Dyke

Back when Bill Clinton ran against Bush 41 his main battle cry was, "It’s the economy, stupid!" What he was able to do was convince the people of this country that we were experiencing the worst economy in 50 years. The truth was that we were in a mild recession and not headed to ruin. Yet with the help of the mainstream media, he was able to convince a nation that his false premise was a fact.

Well, I think that it’s high time that we, with the help of the new media, change some other false premises: One being that it is a run away judiciary that is threatening our liberties; the second being it is the greed of our seniors that is causing our problems with Social Security .Let me explain. My favorite person in the new media is the pioneer himself, Rush Limbaugh, and one of the things that he loves to do is challenge peoples false premises. So, here we go:

Last Monday while listening to the Rush Limbaugh show, the subject Walter Williams was discussing with his guest was judicial tyranny. They were talking about the Supreme Court and some recent rulings where justices have not only changed laws to fit their strange beliefs and disregarded States' rights and their Constitutions, but also were legislating new laws from the bench instead of interpreting the Constitution.

This last year, we in Massachusetts were assaulted by our State Supreme Court when Justice Marshal and three rogue judges trounced our liberty when they commanded our State Legislature to construct a law allowing gay marriages. Stories are popping up all over our country of judges who are assaulting our Constitution and our rights, and changing the make-up of this country by judicial fiat.

Well, that begs the question: Why? Why all of a sudden do we find our very freedoms at risk from these rogues in our judiciary? Do you think that they have suddenly appeared? The answer is no, they have always been with us. Thomas Jefferson and John Adams knew that there would be bad judges appointed to the courts and were very concerned about their threat to our nation. John Adams had article 8, the Bill of Address, drafted into our State Constitution for that very reason.

There have been landmark rulings handed down by the Supreme Court in the last thirty years that were unconstitutional, Roe vs. Wade for one. How about forced busing and racial quotas? And what about the Florida State Supreme Court rewriting election laws in the middle of an election?

It was during their discussion I yelled at the radio: "It’s the gutless politicians!" to one of their points, and that’s when I realized that the premise was wrong. It is clearly the responsibility of our Legislature at the State and Federal level to write and enact laws. No one else is given that right under our Constitution, so if some one else is taking on that right it must be because of the neglect of those given that right to do so. Our gutless representatives that we ourselves have sent off to public office have miserably failed us! I would suggest that our founding fathers would be quite dismayed at the mess we find ourselves in, yet would quickly point out that it is our own fault because we let them get away with it!

Later in the week, I was listening to Rush talk about the Social Security debate that we are all embroiled in. He went on a rant against the senior citizens who he implied are sitting back and demanding the workers of today \pay their way into retirement, that this was nothing but a welfare and entitlement program that is old and broken down. Why, he asked, should people who are going to retire expect us to take care of them?

Well, that’s when it hit me. I don’t except the premise that it is the fault of our seniors. It is the fault of all of the gutless politicians who, over the last fifty or so years, have refused to do their jobs! They have had no intentions of serving their constituents. They have become nothing less than self serving leeches with only their own profit in mind. All of these years, they have been depleting the balance of money in the Social Security system, stealing it to use in unrelated areas. That’s right, stealing. Try going into work tomorrow and taking some cash or a check to buy groceries for your neighbor who is in need. Put an IOU in its place and see what happens to you. You’ll be charged with a crime—stealing—even though you tell them it was for a good cause.

The problem with Social Security is not that there is a hoard of retirees who are sitting back waiting for their big entitlement checks to roll in. The problem is that my father now in his seventies had, over his working years, put a good chunk of cash into a system that politicians embezzled, and now that the system is in chaos, it is some how his fault. A third grader could tell you what is wrong with the Social Security system: It's the politicians, stupid!

When are we going to hold these gutless leeches accountable for their actions? I am convinced that, at this time in history where power in Washington has changed hands. it is the perfect time to get the word out to the people of this country that when it comes to what ails us as a nation: It's the politicians, stupid!