A message from the Grant Co. Committee of Safety

This election is different from all others we have seen in our lives. National security, health care, jobs, immigration, education, and taxes are all items where the two candidates have totally different thinking. Even more important, the balance of the United States Supreme Court will be impacted for perhaps the next three to four decades.

The United States Constitution was written to protect the states and “We the People” from an oppressive, dictatorial national government. People are not taught that the Constitution was written to allow the federal government to abolish slavery 20 years after it was approved (see Article V). The (Un)Civil War was a result of Southern states wanting better Congressional representation, and not wanting to give up slavery. Our Constitution was not based on technology, but human behavior.

The “progressive” political movement over the past century has changed this country from a land of the “free and brave” to people held in economic slavery to national debt. The difference between a successful businessman who is obviously not politically correct, and a politician who claims she can’t recognize classified information by content couldn’t be greater.

The wounds to Americans who want our original Constitution, and to be free from over regulation, can be healed. Socialism only benefits the few while the majority are in economic slavery. “Tax the rich” fails because the wealthy flee. Taxation is then dumped on the middle class and small business. Eventually there is usually a bloody revolution, or “excess” people are killed by the government. Consider 100-plus million people killed in China and the USSR during the 20th century.

One last thing, let’s examine minimum wage laws. Those laws tend to remove entry level jobs, which are not meant to support families, but to educate people just graduating public education to the real business world. As minimum wages increase, the cost of goods and services tend to rise even faster. New technologies will soon remove people as machines will be more cost-effective. Look at the changes in automobile manufacturing as an example of how our world is changing.

“I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.” — Patrick Henry

Thomas Fancher is the treasurer of the Grant County Committee of Safety.