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1990s Were Biggest Population Boom in American History

From Cowboy Up 360 page

From Cowboy Up 360 page

Let me be a free man, free to travel, free to stop, free to work, free to trade where I choose, free to choose my own teachers, free to follow the religion of my fathers, free to talk, think and act for myself -- and I will obey every law or submit to the penalty.

Whenever the white man treats the Indian as they treat each other then we shall have no more wars. We shall be all alike -- brothers of one father and mother, with one sky above us and one country around us and one government for all. Then the Great Spirit Chief who rules above will smile upon this land and send rain to wash out the bloody spots made by brothers' hands upon the face of the earth. For this time the Indian race is waiting and praying. I hope no more groans of wounded men and women will ever go to the ear of the Great Spirit Chief above, and that all people may be one people.

Hin-mah-too-yah-lat-kekht has spoken for his people.

A COLLEGE GIRL'S TAKE ON WELFARE

The following essay was written by Amy Worthington, an 18-year-old freshman at Brigham Young University. She is a political science major and her work appeared on a university website intended to spur political discussion.
Though the headline on her story asked whether Mormons could be Democrats, her essay was really about whether America's system of social welfare was morally and legally justified. Her arguments are couched within the teachings of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, but the principles transcend denomination
The people quoted are Mormon leaders. Dallin H. Oaks is a former justice of the Utah Supreme Court and Ezra Taft Benson, in addition to being a former president of the Mormon Church, was an eight-year member of President Eisenhower's cabinet.
The Doctrine and Covenants is a book of Mormon teachings.
I'm reprinting Miss Worthington's essay because I agree with every word. And because I would like to solicit the viewpoints of both Mormons and non-Mormons on the points she makes. I'd like you to read this and respond.
And I'd like you to consider the possibility that government welfare is not only too expensive, it is morally, socially and constitutionally wrong.

Here is Amy Worthington's essay.


Many Latter-day Saints are Democrats.
While they cite numerous reasons for their political affiliation, one of the explanations I hear most commonly is that they wish to take care of the poor, the needy, the less fortunate.
After all, aren’t we commanded in the Doctrine and Covenants 52:40 to “remember in all things the poor and the needy, the sick and the afflicted?
“He that doeth not these things, the same is not my disciple.”
Unfortunately, turning to the Democratic Party to alleviate the suffering of the poor is not only ineffective, it is not in keeping with the counsel and advice of the church.
There are a number of things lacking in government welfare programs which make it incompatible with the doctrines of the church.
Problem 1: Lack of choice and agency
We are commanded to take care of the poor, but we are expected to choose this, rather than be compelled.
In a BYU devotional on April 12, 1977, Ezra Taft Benson said, “It has been fundamental to our way of life that charity must be voluntary if it is to be charity. Compulsory benevolence is not charity.”
Thus, even if we were to assume that the government was effectively reallocating resources to benefit the poor, no one is being blessed for sacrificing to take care of their fellow man when the government forces you to do so. There is no growth or charity on the part of the giver.
At the risk of being accused of zealotry, I would compare compulsory government charity to a plan one of our brothers offered in the pre-mortal existence which would force us to act correctly. And we all remember where those who followed that plan ended up.
Problem 2: Welfare destroys self-reliance.
In a conference address in October 2003, Elder Dallin H. Oaks stated, “The growth required by the gospel plan only occurs in a culture of individual effort and responsibility. It cannot occur in a culture of dependency. Whatever causes us to be dependent on someone else for decisions or resources we could provide for ourselves weakens us spiritually and retards our growth toward what the gospel plan intends us to be.”
Welfare offers an easy way out. It shelters individuals from the consequences of poor decisions which might otherwise prompt positive change. It skews the incentive structure to favor laziness. While some may legitimately use government welfare programs, there is no denying that it can be used to encourage a host of vices.
Problem 3: Welfare requires no work
In the midst of the Great Depression, the church instituted its own welfare program.
“Our primary purpose was to set up…a system under which the curse of idleness would be done away with, the evils of dole abolished, and independence, industry, thrift, and self-respect be once more established amongst our people.
"The aim of the church is to help people to help themselves. Work is to be re-enthroned as the ruling principle of the lives of our Church membership.”
In contrast to FDRs “New Deal,” which offered something for nothing, the church created a model of how we are to cope with poverty: through hard work and then help (obtained only after planning with a bishop how to fix poverty in the long term, working as much as possible, and creating a line of accountability.)
Problem 4: Lack of constitutional authority
Ezra Taft Benson as Secretary of Agriculture said, “A category of government which poses a grave danger to our continued freedom is the activity NOT within the proper sphere of government.
"No one has the authority to grant such powers, as welfare programs, schemes for re-distributing wealth, and activities which coerce people into acting in accordance with a prescribed code of social planning.”
No mincing with words there. Although Benson delivered this address as a government leader and would therefore not be official church doctrine, he was correct. As individuals we do not have the right to coerce others into sharing, therefore, we cannot collectively grant that right to the government. If power comes from the people, and the people lack a certain power, they cannot bestow that power on government. It is simply not within the legitimate jurisdiction of the government to do so.
Problem 5: Lack of Morality.
Before an audience of BYU students, Ezra Taft Benson stated, “Every individual who accepts an unearned government gratuity is just as morally culpable as the individual who takes a handout from taxpayers’ money to pay his heat, electricity, or rent.
"There is no difference between them.
"You did not come to this university to be a welfare recipient…You are not here to be a parasite or freeloader.
"By doing this you contribute to the problem. Society may rationalize immorality, but God cannot condone it.”
Benson said that it is immoral to accept government welfare. It follows that it would also be immoral to support government welfare in general.
We live in an imperfect world. No political party is perfect and none ever will be. There may be valid reasons to be a Democrat (though I have yet to find any). However, the Democratic Party cannot be validated based on its social welfare programs  -- Medicaid, Medicare, welfare, WIC, food stamps, subsidized housing.
If you are a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the Democratic Party, the time has come to validate your membership in the Democratic Party using something besides welfare programs.
- by Bob Lonsberry © 2006

What Is This Picture?

Ever wonder what the expression "stuck on stupid" meant?

Well here is an example:

The grinning idiot clinging to Je$$e Jack$on is Cindy Sheehan... the sob sister protesting the war at Bush's ranch, who lost her son in the war, the same son she gave up in her divorce when he was 7 years old.

And by the way if you wonder why she has so much free time ... she is going through
another divorce right now and guess what?  She is giving up custody of another son.

As Forest Gump once wisely proclaimed, "Stupid is as stupid does."
 
Please DO pass this one along.
 
 

Samuel Adams advised: "It does not take a majority to prevail...but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men."

From Cowboy Up 360 page

Our country's history has been blessed with many great people who had tremendous foresight and demonstrated exceptional wisdom. People from all nationalities and backgrounds who demonstrated exceptional wisdom.

From the founding fathers who drafted the Declaration of Independence, the architects of the United States Constitution and the authors of the Bill of Rights and Theodore Roosevelt to name a few.

Today, we face a dilemma that will become as historical as the revolutionary war, the abolition of slavery leading to the Civil War and the Civil Rights Acts of the 1960s.

It is true that the United States is a country of immigrants and other than the American Indian, we are all of immigrant decent. None the less, we are Americans.

An e-mail has been circulating that is attributed to Theodore Roosevelt. This e-mail once again displays the wisdom of some of our past leaders and reinforces the idea of what it is to be an American.

Theodore Roosevelt on Immigrants and being an AMERICAN

Are we "SLOW LEARNERS" or what?

Theodore Roosevelt on Immigrants and being an AMERICAN

"In the first place we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the man's becoming in very fact an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag, and this excludes the red flag, which symbolizes all wars against liberty and civilization, just as much as it excludes any foreign flag of a nation to which we are hostile...We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language...and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."

Theodore Roosevelt 1907

Comments:  Theodore Roosevelt indeed wrote these words, but not in 1907 while he was still president. The passages were culled from a letter he wrote to the president of the American Defense Society on January 3, 1919, three days before Roosevelt died.

More from Teddy,
... There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all. This is just as true of the man who puts "native" before the hyphen as of the man who puts German or Irish or English or French before the hyphen. Americanism is a matter of the spirit and of the soul. Our allegiance must be purely to the United States. We must unsparingly condemn any man who holds any other allegiance. But if he is heartily and singly loyal to this Republic, then no matter where he was born, he is just as good an American as any one else.

The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English-Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian-Americans or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality, than with the other citizens of the American Republic. The men who do not become Americans and nothing else are hyphenated Americans; and there ought to be no room for them in this country. The man who calls himself an American citizen and who yet shows by his actions that he is primarily the citizen of a foreign land, plays a thoroughly mischievous part in the life of our body politic. He has no place here; and the sooner he returns to the land to which he feels his real heart-allegiance, the better it will be for every good American. There is no such thing as a hyphenated American who is a good American. The only man who is a good American is the man who is an American and nothing else.

For an American citizen to vote as a German-American, an Irish-American, or an English-American, is to be a traitor to American institutions; and those hyphenated Americans who terrorize American politicians by threats of the foreign vote are engaged in treason to the American Republic.

Theodore Roosevelt 1915

I agree with Teddy. Our current dilemma is not immigration, it is ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION. I have received e-mails that have contained quotes that have been attributed to Hispanic Leaders who claim they will rule this country one day. A very good from of mine, a naturalized citizen born in Mexico, summed it up when he told me that "if the Mexicans are such great leaders, why is everyone wanting to come to America?"

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