Monday
Feb132012
This Is Where We Are Failing
Monday, February 13, 2012 at 4:58PM
I had to pick up one of my kids today, and as luck would have it, I was getting my fill of Rush Limbaugh while we were in the car. She doesn't see the value of the information that Rush produces, and was eager to change the station to something more palatable to teenage ears. She almost lost her fingers.
But it got me thinking a little bit about what teens think about today's topics. I first talked about a bill filed in the Iowa House to make it legal for dairy farmers to sell unpasteurized milk. It seems that right now, if a farmer were to do that, he stands the very real risk of losing his farm and being thrown in jail.
I then chose a topic that has been making the rounds lately, that being the mandate by the Comrade-In-Chief about contraceptives and abortions being guaranteed by health insurance companies. I figured that since she was a girl, perhaps this would be a topic more interesting to her. In the end, neither was making much of an impact.
So I put it on very basic terms. I told her to pretend that she was running her own cupcake shop, and the Feds came in and told her that she had to sell chocolate cupcakes. No questions asked. And, she had to sell those chocolate cupcakes to anyone who came into the store, and it didn't matter if she lost money on the deal, she was allergic to chocolate, the customers were stealing from her... none of that mattered. She would make the cupcakes, sell the cupcakes, and be happy about it because the Feds told her to do so. How would that make her feel?
She said she'd have to do it because that's the government. If they tell you to do something, you have to do it.
I think I bent the steering wheel.
I tried to explain to her that the Constitution was written to keep the government from doing exactly what I just described. She replied with the comment that it didn't matter what the Constitution says, the government is going to do what the government wants to do, and that's just the way it is.
And that, dear readers, is how we are going to lose this republic. If our next generation believes that the government is going to do whatever it wants, and the Constitution cannot protect us from those actions, then we've lost the war before it even gets started.
And I'm sure that's just what the Department of Education and the Comrade-in-Chief are hoping for.
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But it got me thinking a little bit about what teens think about today's topics. I first talked about a bill filed in the Iowa House to make it legal for dairy farmers to sell unpasteurized milk. It seems that right now, if a farmer were to do that, he stands the very real risk of losing his farm and being thrown in jail.
I then chose a topic that has been making the rounds lately, that being the mandate by the Comrade-In-Chief about contraceptives and abortions being guaranteed by health insurance companies. I figured that since she was a girl, perhaps this would be a topic more interesting to her. In the end, neither was making much of an impact.
So I put it on very basic terms. I told her to pretend that she was running her own cupcake shop, and the Feds came in and told her that she had to sell chocolate cupcakes. No questions asked. And, she had to sell those chocolate cupcakes to anyone who came into the store, and it didn't matter if she lost money on the deal, she was allergic to chocolate, the customers were stealing from her... none of that mattered. She would make the cupcakes, sell the cupcakes, and be happy about it because the Feds told her to do so. How would that make her feel?
She said she'd have to do it because that's the government. If they tell you to do something, you have to do it.
I think I bent the steering wheel.
I tried to explain to her that the Constitution was written to keep the government from doing exactly what I just described. She replied with the comment that it didn't matter what the Constitution says, the government is going to do what the government wants to do, and that's just the way it is.
And that, dear readers, is how we are going to lose this republic. If our next generation believes that the government is going to do whatever it wants, and the Constitution cannot protect us from those actions, then we've lost the war before it even gets started.
And I'm sure that's just what the Department of Education and the Comrade-in-Chief are hoping for.
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tagged Constitution, Freedom, Rights, school
Constitution, Freedom, Rights, school 
Reader Comments (4)
Then get busy, like I am every day, educating and exhorting that next generation about their freedoms, and right and wrong. The "Greatest Generation" did a poor job of passing on the hunger for justice and freedom to my generation, and it shows, with the socialist idiots we now have running things. So get to it, and don't be slack about it, or freedom WILL die.
Not to worry. I'm working it hard with my kids, and both my wife and I had a long chat with her about what she said. I think we got through to her, but I can see now that it's a long row to hoe when we need to undo the agenda that has been pounded into today's teens by the government propaganda machine.
Sounds like your daughter is not only a realist, but mature beyond her years. She sees reality as it is, not as we know it should be in this country.
Your job is to overcome her fatalism, and convince her that things are only the way they are because people don't raise enough hell about it.
The very reason that I have educated my children, and am in the process of educating my grandchildren, of their heritage as Americans, the value of Freedom, the virtue of integrity, honesty, courage, and GUTS, morals and ethics along the lines of Our Lord and Savior, the immesurable value of a belief in, and obedience to, God and Our Savior, Jesus Christ; charity, compassion for others, empathy, and the ability and duty to discern right from wrong, goodness from evil, truth form wicked deception. I also teach them not only how to shoot, but when and why to shoot. Additionally, they have been taught that there is no wrong in taking life to defend innocent life, if it cannot be avoided.
Blind obedience to "government" is morally, ethically, and spiritually wrong on too many levels to count. Independent thought is a rapidly declining virtue in these days, but those who practice it will be the forebears of future, Free, generations. To live as a Free man is a Blessing; to live as a slave is a curse. Liberty or Death.