Interesting book I am reading and have decided to follow with you...Glenn Beck's "Common Sense"...Love him, Hate him...He provokes thought....
..."For too long we have ignored, enabled, or embraced the flawed character of those we've selected to protect and defend our Constitution. By lowering our standards for them, we've lowered the standards for ourselves. We wanted a life of ease, a life of little consequence and high reward. To get it, we repeatedly empowered thieves, liars, and con men, simply because they promised us ease. Now, because we've trained them that repeated injury has no consequence, they've grown bold and fearless. When we do speak up, they ease our pain with pork, a steady stream of entitlements, and financial candy, and back to sleep we go."
..."If you're like me, you've screwed up many things in your life, but all of that is a prologue to this moment. Those experiences give us wisdom, humility, and a deep sense of the one emotion that many people try so hard to avoid; failure. But those of us who have failed understand that it is a necessary step in achieving success - a step that safety nets and bailouts attempt to take a shortcut around.
What the experts and elitists don't realize is that shortcuts have consequences. The result of preventing failure in a country rooted in freedom is a country that is no longer rooted in logic. Laws of economics or nature no longer seem to apply, because they simply change the rules of the game when they don't like the outcome.
Unfortunately, it is all catching up to us. The laws of common sense do not change according to scale. If it doesn't work in your own checkbook, it won't work in theirs. If it doesn't work at your house, it won't work at the White House."
"...There are no shortcuts in achieving and living the American Dream. It takes hard work, relentless dedication to your core principles and values, and, above all, patience. Nothing comes easy; nothing happens fast.
But that kind of sense is just not so common anymore."
"...You cannot take away freedom to protect it, you cannot destroy the free market to save it, and you cannot uphold freedom of speech by silencing those with whom you disagree. To take rights away to defend them or to spend your way out of debt defies common sense."
"...Honest listening and, more important, honest questioning is the foundation of the American experiment. We must listen to each other with renewed ears and speak out with passion, while also recognizing the difference between anger and truth."
"...Our silence is due to our failure to see any problem or solution beyond partisan politics. No longer! The light of common sense belongs to all of us from every party - let us use it to uncover the challenges, treachery, and truth."
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