NEW RANDOM THOUGHTS

Most recently the State of Connecticut experienced a tragic event. Eight workers at a beer warehouse were shot and killed by a fellow employee. This "fellow employee" had just been allowed to resign from his job after being caught on film stealing beer from the company. After coldly murdering his co-workers, the proven thief then killed himself.

This sad, sad story became immediately worse when the "family" of this murdering criminal announced that the cause of this event was racism. Yes, the shooter was black and the victims were white.

Are we to believe that merely blurting out the word "racism" justifies this terrible deed? Are we to believe that the correct remedy for perceived, unproven "racism" is wholesale murder? Are we to believe this "racism" claim is factual when never once did the future killer make any complaints to his supervisors or his union or the NAACP or the EEOC or any other local, state or federal agency?

The use of this term, "racism", has become vogue and particularly vogue in politics. The liberals and their mass media allies are quick to use this term whenever they want to attack conservatives or conservative ideas. Now the surviving family of this murdering thief attempts to deflect their shame and embarrassment by screaming out "racism".

On another topic. I heard a presentation at a Tea Party meeting on the history of the US Constitution. The speaker was excellent and quickly established a rapport with the audience. However, two thoughts that stayed with me from the talk were not related to the actual Constitution. The first one was a listing of the reasons why the 13 Colonies became a country and among those reasons was uniformity of a speaking language. Everyone spoke English.

Today our nation has really lost this necessary language characteristic of a country and our government, particularly the federal government, is doing all it can to make English just one of several national languages. We can have diversity without division but multiple accepted languages destroys one important facet of national unity.

The second matter was financial. Many of the original States incurred huge debts during the Revolutionary War. An argument for a federal government was that this new, national entity would assume liability for and pay these State obligations. The total amount of these debts, debts that so bothered our founders, was in the 10s of millions of dollars. That would be a set figure plus 6 zeros. Today, not counting the individual debts of the States, our federal government owes a set figure plus 12 zeros. This an amount in the trillions of dollars. The Obama Administration shows no concern and just continues to spend.

Our founding fathers were able to eliminate their original national debt but this modern national debt is a different story.