The Fathomless Funds of the Treasury |
“They [Congress] seemed, some little while ago to be at a loss for objects whereon to throw away the supposed fathomless funds of the treasury.” -Thomas Jefferson
That was over 200 years ago, folks. I wonder what Mr. Jefferson would think of our Congress today.
Well, no, I don’t wonder what he would say, because he told us:
“I place economy among the first and most important virtues and public debt as the greatest dangers to be feared. To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. If we run into such debts, we must be taxed in our meat and drink, in our necessities and in our comforts, in our labor and in our amusements. If we can prevent the government from wasting the labor of the people under the pretense of caring for them, they will be happy.”
I’ve made this point countless times before, but I’m bucking against a Category 5 hurricane that never stops coming. Our Founding Fathers were brilliant men, and most of what they said was right on the mark. Prophetic, as you can see from the Jefferson quotes above. But yet, not prophetic because they based their ideas on the eternal principles, the “eternal constitution of things” in Edmund Burke’s term, verities established by God before He even created the universe, actually, truths that flow from the very nature of God. He didn’t create them; they are just part of His being.
And thus, when people live by those principles, they can be happy and secure. James Madison said, “The future and success of America is not in this Constitution, but in the laws of God upon........