Words of wisdom from the past

The Obama stimulus package recently passed by the U.S. House and Senate will bankrupt our country. Our children and grandchildren will inherit for the first time in our nation's history a land of limited opportunities. It is very unfortunate for we the people that no one read the package before they voted and it unfortunately passed.

This year we will see inflation in double digits and through this another tax increase. Money doesn't grow on trees. It is either printed or taken from we the people. With this stimulus package our government will spend, borrow and tax too much.

Our former Conservative Rep. Philip M. Crane delivered the following speech in 1968 to the Physicians and Surgeons in New Orleans, La.

"The purpose of government is to exercise its negative function of preventing trespass one against the other or group against group or nation against nation. This is the only legitimate power that government can ever exercise. When it moves over into the positive sphere of activity, which is a phenomenon that occurred around the turn of the century, and it attempts to perform good works, then sooner or later you encounter difficulties: first of all in defining what are good works; second arranging the order of priorities; and thirdly in preserving a moral order. What some deem good works, others do not. Then you get a taste of individuals or groups of individuals, who are factions, or political entities, exercising through a majority vote the power over a minority which was never conferred upon government in the first place. You get legalized plunder. You get a case of redistribution of the wealth, which. is taking from those who have and giving to those who have not. Medicare is just one example of this phenomenon. You get all kinds of injustices and moral perversions."

In closing, let me state that Congressman Crane's words are a perfect example of what is taking place in our country today. Please wake-up my fellow Americans before the Obama presidency creates a socialist state out of the greatest country in the world.

Mary Lou Hoeltje

Mount Prospect