What Makes America Great
Wednesday, February 18, 2009 10:29A good friend of mine, fearing I’d slipped a bit too far from my conservative West Michigan roots during the course of our time in other countries, emailed me a link to a transcript from yesterday’s Rush Limbaugh gospel service. Rush addressed a quote by John Adams: “We have no government armed with the power capable of contending with human passions which are unbridled by morality and true religion. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
Less than one hundred years after the Constitution “for a moral and religious people” was written, a US Supreme court decision granted Corporations the freedom of speech. Because of that decision, nowhere in the world do corporations have as much legal control over the governance of a nation as they enjoy in America.
Rush attacks symptoms when he points to a number of unnamed people inside the Beltway that aren’t the right kind of “moral and religious people” Adams spoke about. It would serve America better to address the non-persons, that by definition are “unbridled by morality and true religion.”
We returned to America from the cruising life because of her potential to be the greatest nation on earth, and that potential comes from her “moral and religious people.”
Jan Granger says:
February 18th, 2009 at 6:55 pm
Had a question about a term you used on the 16th, I think. “Origami”. What did you mean by that……..Mom
admin says:
February 18th, 2009 at 9:20 pm
Dear Mom, you can fold a piece of paper to look like a lot things, origami, but when you’re done, all you have left is still a piece of paper. The same is true for a lot of our puffed up organizations, ergo, “origami organizations.” Gregg
Angela says:
February 24th, 2009 at 11:10 pm
Hmm, very cognitive post.
Is this theme good unough for the Digg?
admin says:
February 24th, 2009 at 11:32 pm
Personally Angela, I think the theme is good enough for anywhere. I’m not too proud of my own ability to do it justice, but I’m afraid of the direction we’re heading if we don’t address it.
Gregg