"Let each citizen remember at the moment he is offering his vote that he is not making a present or a compliment to please an individual ... but that he is executing one of the most solemn trusts in human society for which he is accountable to God and his country."
--Samuel Adams

The old adage, A word to the wise is sufficient" may be getting yet another test. History tells us that some do heed wise words, while a larger majority do not.

Currently the are several key issues that will severely affect the lives of all Americans where a word to the wise has been issued. Repeatedly.

If past history is any barometer, about one third will consider the warning as real and the balance of those affected will either ignore it or leave it to someone else to worry about.

Is there any wonder we're in the mess we're in?

Recently I wrote about the seriousness of the warnings issued by Moody's, the folks who rate the value of bonded indebtedness, among other things. They historically issue warnings before reducing the worthiness of government bonds. They have now issued a second warning to the Obama administration that effectively says, either get your financial house in order or you will lose the AAA (superior) rating. This means interest on the U. S. debt will increase dramatically and take another big hunk out of what we used to think of as our treasury. It will affect the price of everything we buy and sell whether individuals or as a business or a country. It is the trigger that can burst the bubble that has artificially held inflation in check and open the door to the worst form of taxation: Double-digit inflation.

Instead of heeding the warning the Obama administration is focused almost entirely on health care issues largely ignoring the most injurious aspect of our economy, jobs.

Despite all the happy talk about great progress in employment, the government's own numbers show unemployment is getting worse, not better. Georgia just announced the unemployed in the state is now 10.5%. That includes only those who are registered. It does not include about the same number who are no longer seeking benefits or who are under employed in part time jobs. The true number in Georgia is more like twenty percent (20%). [As a point of reference, unemployment was at twenty-five percent during the Great Depression.]

Meanwhile, we now know in the first year of the Obama administration the debt increased TWO TRILLION dollars. Since this spending was all authorized by the Obama administration, blaming George Bush is running a little thin.

The one increase in employment has been in government workers adding more and more liability to the taxpayers. Worse, instead of limited federal government, we're headed for a much larger and more intrusive federal goverment.

That brings up another word to the wise. A recent study shows that government workers, thanks to the new controlling factor in America, the labor unions, now average $70,000 salary per year as opposed to those in private business who average around $40,000. The calculations are broken down so there is a comparison in comparable jobs and responsibilities.

To worsen the situation, the government employees have early retirement and luxurious defined benefits in retirement that are several times more costly than private business which tries to provide benefits without tax payer assistance.

If you've been watching the great transformation in our federal government, it has been underway as we were told it would be. Fifty three percent (53%) of voters bought into this great new Hope. Now, we all must suffer the results the unconscious incompetents have given us.

Of course, if our governments were held obedient to the Constitution, then incompetent voters could do less damage to the whole. The Framers tried to protect us from the "tyranny of the majority" with checks and balances, with competing powers to check those holding power within the limits defined for a given office or branch.

The voice of the people, the consent of the governed, has now been neutered or abolished. It has transformed (perverted) into policies provided by the labor unions which have open access to the White House. If you have any doubts simply check the special benefits set aside for labor union members in virtually every piece of legislation introduced by the LABOR PARTY, the appropriate name for what used to be the Democratic Party. Unfortunately, most Democrats have no idea that they are now transformed in this way. Now we'll see whether they truly want to be controlled by a labor party saddled in Marxist ideology, or whether at least some will come out from under the ether and bolt the column following the Pied Piper of Chicago.

"Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny."
--Thomas Jefferson

"All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent."
-- Thomas Jefferson

"Democracy is the road to socialism."   -- Karl Marx

"Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their death."
-- James Madison, from Federalist #10

"A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine."
-- Thomas Jefferson

"Bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression."
--Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural address, 1801

"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!"
-- Benjamin Franklin