If it walks, quacks, looks and acts like a duck, are we not able to call it a duck?

The controversy should not be about whether or not we need health care improvements or reform, or czars running agencies developed to battle plaguing or emerging tribulations, but whether the federal government was granted or should be granted the privilege of deciding what is best for every state and the people within those states.  Last time I checked, this country was called the United States of America.  We are not called Federal America nor are people shouting to become Nationalized America.  We are a unified group of fifty states that endure or surrender together.  We are a “Republic, for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all.”  We are the United States of America.

In forming this great country, founders declared independence and setup operational instructions that gifted the ‘States United’ with blessings beyond any other country, state, kingdom, province, nation state, dictatorship, socialistic domain or other governing system.  Our founding fathers prepared, thoroughly reviewed and sanctified processes that accommodate change in our land of freedom.  These steadfast guidelines expressed clear boundaries, and set forth rules and procedures to modify or adjust the resolved words of old.  This celebrated and foundational document is the Constitution of the United States.  The Constitution, the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights contain words ordained to “form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defence[s], promote the general welfare, and secure the blessing of liberty to ourselves and our posterity.”

In order to preserve the unity of our nation, the powers not expressly granted in our Constitution are reserved to the states, or to the people.  Specific powers were issued exclusively to each branch of our federal government.  In service to the government, our representatives affirm to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.” Observably laws governing ducks must be called duck laws.  Could laws left to individual states be called state laws?

"Fear is the foundation of most government." – John Adams

Do we, as United States citizens, currently find it odd that we are told that without our federal government stepping in to solve our financial crisis and medical coverage problems that no solution exists?  Our federal government has become an expert at exploiting fear over reason.  Our federal government asserts that unless they control every aspect of our lives, we, as Nevadans or citizens of any other state, will be left out in the cold without a blanket.

It is difficult for me to watch our foundational documents trampled so easily by cheering crowds of citizens and their representatives.  Do these citizens truly cheer for the demise of our constitutional republic?  Or, is it possible that they are being subjected to the old bait and switch, told one thing and sold another?

If our eye glasses have been slowly blurred by the mists of time, let us wash them together.  If our eye glasses have been quickly blurred by the sudden delusions of ‘change’, let us clean them together.  If our eye glasses are lost by years of lethargy, let us find them together.

Let us join hands upon this journey, become united in our approach and emerge as an honest voice for truth in Nevada’s representation.  Let us advance and not continue to hide our heads in the Nevada sand waiting for a glimmer of hope.  Let us step back from the slippery slopes of the current regime’s drivel and stop relinquishing our precious and potentially powerful gifts to the federal government.  Let us, as a state, pull the soiled foundational documents out from under the feet of the trampling bureaucrats and demand accountability to the fundamental principles that successfully guided our country for more than 200 years.

Granted I am not a constitutional lawyer, but I believe in being held accountable to the constitution.  The creation of our country’s legal and inspirational documents were shaped by men that stood upon principles and rights they believed were unchangeable and granted by God.  It is a noble cause to stand united for something that brought blessings to this nation for over two centuries.  These enduring documents were not one thousand pages long, nor even one hundred pages long.  The words issued had meaning and validity that have stood the tests of time and will secure our future if we stand firm in their simple wisdom. 

As an American living in the great state of Nevada, I frown at the bloated legislation that is foisted upon us by legislators that cannot even bother to read the complete text of the, bills and laws they expect us to live under.  We should pull back the curtain of Ozland and demand understandable language that allows us, the American people, to know, without doubt, how each law applies to us.