Find Your Founding Father

This past Sunday was Fathers Day, a very special day across the fruited plain. For those who no longer have the opportunity to visit with your Dad, we hope you had a day of embracing fond memories. Hopefully, for those that can, an opportunity was seized to visit and reminisce. For those who regrettably were unable to experience this gem of life, prayers are extended that in your life you will be able create a new path of love and family.  Certainly, special recognition goes out to Dads whose sons and daughters are away from home fighting for the home of the free and the brave.

I had a very enjoyable day with my family at Tropicana Field in Saint Petersburg.  Alex Gordon, picture below left in warmups, drove in two runs as the visiting Kansas City Royals defeated the Tampa Bay Rays 5-3.  Hall of Famer George Brett, an inaugural member of The Hall of BAHL pictured at right, looked like he could pinch hit at any moment.



 

A wonderful video turned up over the weekend, expressing in eloquence the sentiments many of us have for Dads.  Many are small memories of a special day, or maybe that summer trip, but recognizing the many sacrifices made on our behalf.  Please take a listen:

 

A real tear jerker indeed.  Make you appreciate life and the fragility associated with it.

Weighing heavily on the minds of many of us takes to a place of some other Fathers; our Founding Fathers.

In recent years, our government has been acting in violation of the founding principle set forth by our Founding Fathers. These are simple principles, focused on freedom and liberty and the right to pursue happiness for all.  These principles placed the power in the people, recognizing the incentives and dreams of the individual can produce great things which can benefit society in a ripple effect of ways.

Our current government leaders think government can dictate your affairs much more efficiently than you can, and aim to place you in a box by controlling your educational and health care opportunities, all while regulating and taxing success in effort to help those on the low end of the spectrum through wealth transformation.

This is not the place of the government to dictate, rather the market.  While most everyone welcomes a safety net for those who fall on hard times, having 47% of the population on government assistance is a marker of failure.

Our Founding Fathers would not be at all pleased.  In all his brilliance, Michael Ramirez of Investors Business Daily has again captured the minds of those who recognize what is happening in America.

I hope everyone had a wonderful Fathers Day.  With the day of recognition in the rear view mirror, it is time for all of us, Fathers of the great experiment of America, to honor not only our Fathers, but our Founding Fathers, in working to defeat on the battlefield of ideas those that wish to trample on those divinely inspired founding principles our Founding Fathers gave us.

Happy Founding Fathers Day!