The Sons of Liberty

Well, after three long years of owning this domain and using it for absolutely nothing, I have finally found the motivation to start using it for it’s intended purpose - so here I am typing my first ever blog entry. What, you ask, has inspired such action after 3 years of laziness and indifference? Well, it’s an interesting story…

In my business, it’s practically a requirement that I spend a large amount of time each day just browsing the interwebs. Over the past couple of months, the name Ron Paul has simply become impossible to avoid. After initially dismissing the ‘hype’ surrounding the presidential campaign of Ron Paul, I finally decided that perhaps there may be something to this guy. So, after spending a weekend immersing myself in the platforms of all of the candidates from both parties, I now understand why everyone feels that he’s such an important candidate. So, now that I’ve officially jumped on the Ron Paul bandwagon, I also find myself inspired to take some action and add my voice to the realm of ideas.

I’ve always considered myself ‘different’ from most of the other people of my generation - I’ve never really found myself to be disaffected and cynical as the 30-somethings of today are always accused of being. I’ve always been of the opinion that ultimately the classical American ideal would prevail - government would, over some time, naturally correct itself and become smaller. Free market economics would naturally win out due to the non-viability of the other systems out there. The problem that I think I tried to just ignore until now is that the people in power - both Democrat and Republican - simply aren’t motivated to move our country in the right direction. They’ve missed the bigger picture, and are simply too short sighted to see that the key to true prosperity both for them and the American people is to get government out of the way and let the American people do what they have done best for 200 years - prosper. While I still believe that our society is headed toward a big economic and social correction one way or the other, I now believe that we can conduct these changes in such a way that the American ideal and the American people can come through it mostly unscathed. The key, however, will be starting to take action now - hence the reason for my blog.

In closing, I hope that at the very least anyone who reads my musings will at least be inspired to engage their minds and join in the debate in the forum of ideas. I don’t expect that everyone will agree with everything I think or say, but I do have the hope that perhaps my views will inspire others to evaluate their own. I learned some time ago that thinking is absolutely a volitional act, so let’s all choose to use our gift of thought and direct that effort toward making our country and our world a better place.