The Style of Common Sense

Our Country's Founding Fathers really knew how to say what they meant. What is even more amazing is how their essays were written hundreds of years ago but are still very much relevant. Common sense never goes out of style.


I would like to share with you an excerpt of an essay written by Benjamin Franklin:

...and there will always be a party for giving more to the rulers, that the rulers may be able to in return to give more to them. Hence, as all history informs us, there has been in every state and kingdom a constant kind of warfare between the governing and the governed, the one striving to obtain more for its support, and the other to pay less. And this has alone occasioned great convulsions, actual civil wars, ending either in dethroning of the princes or enslaving of the people. Generally, indeed, the ruling power carries its point and we see the revenues of princes constantly increasing, and we see that they are never satisfied, but always in want of more. The more the people are discontented with the oppressions of taxes, the greater need the prince has of money to distribute among his partisans, and pay the troops that are to suppress all resistance, and enable him to plunder at pleasure.



There is great distrust of government leaders mounting....storms are brewing. The PEOPLE want their Country back. The average American may not know the words of The Founding Fathers but they know in their gut when something isn't quite right. I encourage you to look around at what is going on around your community, township, state, and federal government. Be Bold. No time like the present to steer this thing back around to our founding principles. Investigate your Senators and Representative and know what they stand for. We have a very important election coming up in 2010. If your elected representation is not representative of you, do something about it.