Something to think about

I remember in high school we had to study the Delcaration of Independence and the Constitution. I wonder how many kids today are required to do so? If they did, and they used their minds for what they were designed for they would realize that our government today is not the same government that was envisioned by our fore-fathers.

Therefore it is with that thought in mind that I present for your consideration a portion of the opening of the Declaration of Independence. Think about what it says and the implications and then compare the situation we are in now with our government not listening to the demands of the people it represents.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.