What we need is virtuous leaders

John Adams once wrote the following to Thomas Jefferson: "Have you ever found in history, one single example of a Nation thoroughly corrupted that was afterward restored to virtue?... And without virtue there can be no political liberty - Will you tell me how to prevent luxury from producing effeminacy, intoxication, extravagance, vice and folly?... I believe no effort in favor of virtue is lost."

Virtue was the first and only quality our founding fathers wished our political leaders to possess. Only a virtuous man can uphold an oath. And if our leaders upheld their oath to the Constitution, the mess we are in would be much smaller or nonexistent. Free market economies do ebb and flow, more or less proven by Kondratieff. The current mess is the result of decades of Central Bank inflationary policies, unconstitutional wars and taxes and allowing our manufacturing to be illegally sent overseas and just basic corruption, the kind we are used to in Illinois.

Richard Rosenthal recently opined that "only people of unusual intelligence, insight and management skill," should be running our country. This shows a complete misunderstanding of what America is all about and the principles that made us a great, free and virtuous nation. No, Mr. Rosenthal, only persons that exhibit the highest degree of virtue can be trusted to make the correct decisions.

The media certainly share the blame as well. There was a man of virtue who ran for president and was wholly ignored by the media. His name was Ron Paul. Obama got 10 times the media coverage than Ron Paul did. Most Americans never heard of Ron Paul.

Hasn't anyone noticed that as government grows our quality of life declines? Obama just gave us the biggest government ever and is now preaching fiscal restraint. What a joke.

Jeff Lonigro

St. Charles