Just Four Main Things...

It was the summer of 1789.  It was more than 100 degrees outside, yet our Founding Fathers had to keep the windows closed in Philadelphia's Independence Hall so they could hear over the screaming crowds outside.  They were doing their very best to come up with a Constitution.  One which would become the road map for our New Country to follow.  As its opening paragraph states, these were its overarching goals:

   "To form a more perfect Union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty for ourselves and our posterity..."  

Worthy goals, all. And in addition to those Rights conveyed upon us Citizens by God at birth, and codified via the Bill of Rights to that Constitution, the signatories looked to hit the ground running by doing 4 Main Things:

     1.  Mint our money.

     2.  Defend our borders.

     3.  Deliver our First Class mail.

     4.  And mount armies and navies to fight our wars. 

Let's take a look at each of these Categories, shall we?

     1.  You might have come to realize that our Treasury Department has the Mint running 24/7.  Putting out pallets of $100 bills out at a furious pace.  6' x 6' x 5' pallets, weighing 600 pounds, packed tightly with Benjamins.  Lots of them.  So much so that we're $36.4 Trillion Dollars in debt.  Perhaps it should slow down a bit, doncha' think?  Me thinks we should make it harder to run those presses.  Imagine how much money we could save if we just stopped printing money!  Maybe flip the switch.  Just turn off the power?  Anyone know how?  

Oh yeah, it costs us, you and me, the Taxpayers, $3.7 Cents to make a Penny.  Representing an annual loss to us Taxpayers of more than $110,000,000.  Does anyone else besides me (and my daughter Dana) know that?  Does anybody care?

     2.  Defending our Borders took it in the shorts once O'Biden took the wheel.  Or rather, whomever was pulling the string in his back.  Me thinks that ventriloquist was Obama, who stated he'd happily run for a third term, but only if he could find a willing stooge through whom he could run things.  We'll only know for sure when the book's written.  Probably well into the future.  

O'Biden opened our Borders to more than 15,000,000 illegal aliens from 168 countries.  Including China, Iran, Krygistan and Sierra Leone.  Plusss, an estimated 1,400,000 so-called "gotaways."  Those who chose to run rather than to take a free cell phone, a free bus/train/plane ticket to anywhere, lots of free food, free shelter, free clothing, free legal advice, and free medical care.  

Obviously, they had some other goals in mind.  It seems getting all those goodies from 'Murica via its "Non-Governmental Activities"* wasn't enough.  Let's pray those goals don't represent a risk to us Americans.  Remember, it only took 19 Muslim terrorists to bring down the Twin Towers and kill nearly 3,000 of our innocent souls. 

It will take $Billions of Dollars and decades to root them out.  Long after O'Biden and Obama have died (maybe they'll take Jane Fonda with them?), we'll still be paying for their efforts to make America a socialist paradise. 

Oh yeah, I say "pray," because hoping doesn't feed the bulldog.  And there's not much else we can do about it.  Just turn our Bulldog Homan loose, then stand back and watch.  He's rounded up more than 8,000 of them so far, with a goal of 1,200 a day.  500,000 a year.  But until then, we don't know who they are, where they are, why they're here, or what they plan.  It keeps me up at night.

     3.  Oh yeah, Mail.  The USPS.  The "United States Postal Service."  Those nice folks who (sometimes) deliver our mail.  Our Founding Fathers gave birth to our U. S. Postal System.  In fact, Benjamin Franklin was America's first postmaster.  Didja' know that?  We, the Gubmint, bestowed on it the exclusive delivery of our First Class mail.  I doubt they had any idea 2nd and 3rd and 4th Class Mail usage would explode as it has, nor did they believe there'd be hundreds of millions of packages to deliver.  

But companies like UPS and FedEx and and DHL arrived on the scene.  Taking from the Post Office its main revenue generator.  Because 1st Class Mail generates nowhere near enough revenue to float the boat.  Especially now that we, The Public, have devised methods to communicate without spending boucoup bucks for a stamp.  Emails, texts, Zoom, apps, and bullhorns.  That's why we, the Taxpayers, had to inject nearly $6.7 Billion Dollars into their operations just last year.  Why don't they compete on price with those lamprey eels sucking out all their (our) profit?  They can't.  Apparently, doing so is not permitted.   

If the law is stopping it from competing, we ought to change the law.

     4.  And finally, our Founding Fathers wanted to defend us and our allies from foreign countries who try to use force against us.  To mount and stage an army, navy, coast guard and marines to "...provide for the common defense."  How are they doing at that task, you might ask?  Pretty crappy, I'd say.  

You might be surprised to learn we, the U. S. of A., has been involved in 116 wars since our Founding.  10 of them major.  We won the first few, then took it in the shorts from the Brits in the War of 1812.  Remember, they burned the White House?  Then Andrew Jackson kicked their asses. 

After that we got serious.  We built up our Army and Navy and Coast Guard and Marines.  And then went on a tear, winning every war we fought, including World Wars One and Two.  After that?  Zero.  We lost the Korean War (never declared, called a Police Action).  We lost the Vietnam War (another Police Action).  We lost the Iraq War (not declared, not named).  We lost the "whatever" in Afghanistan, costing us another 4,500 American soldiers over a 20 year period.  Sending us off with the shameful retreat from Bagram Air Force Base 3 years ago.  Remember that?  With people dripping from the wings of our C-17's? 

And 13 of our brave soldiers died because of that blunder.  O'Biden couldn't have cared less.  And his poll numbers never recovered.

It seems that, even with a professional, all-volunteer Army, we just cannot win.  Or, is it that our "leaders"  just CHOOSE not to win?  As an Army Veteran, who participated in the Vietnam fiasco, we proved once again that we just cannot learn from history.  The French got their butts kicked at Dien Bien Phu.  That's in Vietnam, BTW.  That was in 1957.  Yet, refusing to learn from history, we sent a "Vietnam Advisory Group" of 100 elite soldiers there in 1961.  To "teach" the Vietnamese how to fight, was the plan.  Before long Kennedy was shot, LBJ was installed, and we had 550,000 American Soldiers there.  Fighting for...what again? 

A picture I cannot forget is the one of our helicopter taking off from the tallest building in Saigon.  Loaded with our Embassey staff.  The last few to run with their tails between their legs.  Another war chosen by old guys in suits, but fought by your sons and daughters.  I'm hoping our new Defense Secretary will call a halt to all unecessary future bleeding.  And if it proves necessary, just Kill Them All.  And fast!  

You can visit the Monument to our 55,000 fallen Vietnam-era soldiers the next time you're in Washington, D.C.

So to wrap it up, our Gubmint has four primary jobs.  And it's been doing a crappy job at all four.  Our Constitution still works.  But it's up to our leaders to maybe follow it for a change.  Perhaps our new President will right the Ship of State.  I sure as Hell hope so...

*    America (O'Biden) sent $1.7 Billion Dollars to its "NGO's" so they could circumvent our laws regarding illegal alien immigrants.  WE couldn't give them all that free stuff, but the NGO's COULD.  Pretty shady, huh?