Keeping the Republic: Saving America by Trusting Americans-Fast Shipping

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Upon leaving the Constitutional Convention, Benjamin Franklin wasasked whatsort of government the delegates had created. His reply to the crowd: “Arepublic, if you can keep it.”Now America’s most respected governorexplainsjust how close we’ve come to losing the republic, and how we can restoreit togreatness.

Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels has been called “the most presidentialman inAmerica.” He has brought more change to his state in a few years thanmost seein decades.

The Hoosier state is now a model of good and efficient sector payroll is now the smallest per capita in the nation. Andyetservices have improved across the board. Even its Bureau of MotorVehicles –the ultimate symbol of dysfunctional bureaucracy – has been rated thebest inthe country.

Daniels has done this by focusing on government’s coreresponsibilities,cutting taxes, empowering citizens, and performing what he calls an “oldtribalritual” – spending less money than his state takes in, whiledistinguishingbetween skepticism towards big government and hostility towards allgovernment.

Unfortunately few politicians have the discipline or courage to followhislead. And worse, many assume that Americans are toointimidated, gullible or dim-witted to make wise decisions about theirhealthcare, mortgages, the education of their kids, and other important has been a steady decline in freedom, as elite government experts– “ourbenevolent betters”, in Daniels’ phrase — try to regulate every aspectofour lives.

Daniels bluntly calls our exploding national debt “a survival-levelthreat tothe America we have known.”He shows how our underperforming publicschoolshave produced a workforce unprepared to compete with those of othercountriesand ignorant of the requirements of citizenship in a free society. Helays outthe risk of greatly diminished long term prosperity and the loss of ourpositionof world warns that we may lose the uniquely Americanpromise ofupward mobility for all.

But, the good news is that it’s not too late to save , realchange can’t be imposed from above. It has to be what he calls “changethatbelieves in you” — a belief that Americans, properly informed of thefacts,will pull together to make the necessary changes and that they are best- equippedto make the decisions governing their own lives. As he puts it:

“I urge great care not to drift into a loss of faith in the must never yield to the self-fulfilling despair that these problemsareimmutable, or insurmountable. Americans are still a people born as free-born, autonomous men and women of God-given dignity,they willrise yet again to drive back a mortal enemy.”