The late American Congregationalist minister, Howard Arnold Walter, in 1906 wrote one of my favorite poems, titled “I Would Be True.” Walter began his poem with the following: “I would be true, for there are those who trust me.”
That opening line is what our federal government, i.e., those whom we pay and finance to act in our best interest, have transpicuously chosen to ignore. We trusted them to honor the Constitution of the United States and to honor their oath of office, and our trust was tragically misplaced.
The most recent visible act of this is Paul Ryan and the Karl Rove-Reince Priebus controlled Republican Party passing the omnibus spending bill for Obama. It was by no means their only act; it was just the one that outraged true small-government conservatives the most.......Read more at
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