Can we just cut to the chase? We have this convoluted political debate going on and friends we are just missing the big issue. It isn’t immigration, taxation, spending, foreign relations, unions, cap and trade, the gulf oil spill, any of that. Yes, these are issues, critical issues, but there is a bigger issue; principles.

We, the ones that are right, call them conservatives, call them libertarians, maybe in some cases even call them Republicans, need to focus on the principles. Principles anyone? The things that define us, mold us, rule us? Come on! Principles don’t waiver. They are not circumstantial, they are fundamentally solid. They are the basis that we built this nation upon and the very same thing that is the only hope of restoring this nation to its greatness. Principles. We’ve lost them, they no longer are important in our political dialogue. If we don’t re-recognize them, we will be lost. If we don’t’ re-recognize them, we will lose our nation. America and what it stands for will be history, literally.

So here’s the principles we need to focus on and analyze and solve every problem which faces us. If we default to political rhetoric, we will lose. Our children will lose, and I don’t know about you, but you hurt my kids, those are fighting words. Thus, here they are:

1. SPEND WITHIN YOU MEANS! Period. Under any other circumstance other than government, folks live by this principle and if they don’t they go bankrupt. Again, period. But our government doesn’t’ do this. On a principled level, what is our government doing? Here’s what. It is spoiling one child, unions, government, the politically correct industry, at the expense of others. It is violating the principle. Imagine you have three kids, two are o.k. and one is a recalcitrant. Are you going to penalize the good kids for the enabling of the bad kid? Probably not, but that’s what our government is doing. They did it with Wall Street, AIG, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, the Auto Industry, the “New” Black Panthers. Our government is borrowing from foreigners to effectuate their violation of this principle.

2. CARE ABOUT OTHERS, BUT RECOGNIZE THEIR DUTY TO TAKE CARE OF THEMSELVES. We are currently building two nations, IRAC and Afghanistan. IRAC has hope, they are Persians, they are western. But Afghanistan is a bunch of goat herding heroin dealers. We ain’t going to fix them. They don’t want to be fixed. IRAC, we’ve done enough, it should be put in their hands now. If they don’t learn, then we should hit them with cruise missiles rather than spend trillions of dollars trying to make them more like us.

On another slant, care about those who truly need, not just because somebody lost their job, but the truly needy, the truly handicapped. Stop enabling sloth. Create an incentive based upon need for those who are not handicapped to take responsibility for themselves.

3. PROTECT THE HOMELAND. Pretty basic, you lock your doors, (I don’t), have a right, in most states, to shoot an invader, you don’t serve up a meal to a stranger at your dinner table, and yet our nation opens it’s borders, welcomes illegals, unwanted guests at the dinner table. This is a no-brainer for the common folk, just close the borders. How does one argue against this principle? They can’t unless they don’t believe in national sovereignty.

4. BELIEVE IN FREEDOM! Isn’t the ultimate freedom to have control of both your work and the fruits of your labor, isn’t this the biggest inspiration? Yes, of course it is. But if you’re paying fifty percent of the fruits of you labor to government for them to redistribute to someone else, isn’t that the biggest wet blanket on productivity? Of course it is. The concept of freedom is the ultimate Viagra for ingenuity, production and enterprise. Yet, our government discounts freedom and throws the ultimate shroud of diminution upon our heartfelt desire to be creative, to produce, to actualize.

If our government was simply run on these three principles we would live in a better place, a better world, and it would be a better world. If we lived on these four principles we would prosper and the rest of the world would question, they would buy in. Until we do so, until we change our current trend and go back to these principles, we are headed for disaster, we are headed for a “What America Used To Be” existence.

That’s my Reetzality for the day.

Thanks for the read.

Brett Reetz