A Book Everyone Should Read

     I just finished reading Glenn Beck’s Common Sense and I recommend that every American read it. To summarize it is a book inspired by Common Sensewritten by Thomas Paine (another book every American should read). In it Beck gives his thoughts on the current government and where it is headed. He also argues for us to stage a second revolution, not one fought with guns but ideas.

     I happen to agree with his premise and urge you all to read this book and draw your own conclusions.

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-Rem Publicam

Something to think about

In the end when you’re up in heaven getting the once over by St. Peter it won’t matter how much good you did or what the good you did was. What will matter is the simple fact of did you do good or not.

Now don’t misconstrue the message here. I’m not saying do only the minimum of good that you can, I’m saying that getting into a pissing contest about how much good you did is worse than useless. Don’t compare your good deeds to those of others. Just do what good deeds you can and be happy that it was in your power to help someone.

Think about it, what is a good deed? It’s an act of charity of some sort, whether its helping an old lady across the street or giving millions to help those who need a leg up. But like I said above the greatness of your deeds doesn’t matter in the end. What matters is the fact that you did all the good that was in your power to do.

Orwell was right

      I just finished reading George Orwell’s Animal Farm and am taken aback by how well Orwell showed the evolution of an unchecked government from the start to the bitter conclusion.

     For those of you who have not yet read Animal Farm allow me to summarize. The book takes place in modern England at a place called Manor Farm. Manor Farm is owned by Mr. Jones, a farmer who has fallen on hard times and has taken to the bottle. Because of this his farm falls into disrepair causing the animals to rebel. The Rebellion is successful and the animals form their own government. Slowly the government corrupts and a full-fledged dictatorship is installed.

     While this book was obviously written as an anti-communist work, for example the character Napoleon is a Stalin like figure who takes over Animal Farm and rules with an iron-fist. The Wind Mill is drawn from Stalin’s grandiose attempts to industrialize the USSR. And the show trials are directly drawn from Stalin’s purges of the USSR’s Army and Government in the late 1930’s.

     That aside though, Animal Farm serves another purpose, it shows us what happens when we become too complacent with and don’t keep a Government in check. This is shown throughout the book with the animals blindly following what they’re told and never quite connecting the dots.  We also see this today by our lack of caring about what happens in our Government, our lack of fresh players in the political spectrum, and the most dangerous of all is how we’ve let the Federal Government grow unchecked since FDR’s presidency.

     My friends I agree with Thoreau when he said “The Government which governs least governs best”, quite simply readers that is not what’s happening. Are federal emission standards governing less? Is forcing banks to loan money to people who obviously can’t pay it back governing less? Is socialized medicine governing less? Nope, but they are evidence of how we have become complacent and have allowed the Federal Government to grow to large. It is time to pick through the numerous jobs of the Government and see which are best for it and those which should be in the hands of the private sector.

-Rem Publicam