"THE INVISIBLE HAND . . ."

OUR TRUTHS ARE SELF-EVIDENT NOT RELATIVE

As Jesus stood before Pontius Pilate, Jesus said,  "I came into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone on the side of truth listens to me."  And Pilate responded with the question that is still being waged today, "What is truth?" 

For a child the answer is very simple, truth is true and anything that is not true is false or a lie, this over-simplistic approach is shown in the classic tale of Pinocchio, every time Pinocchio would tell a lie his nose would grow.  But somewhere along the way as children age and become men and women the truth becomes complicated, even today as in Pilate's time you have governmental leaders who question truth. 

When this great nation was formed our leaders knew what truth is, in fact they put it in our Founding Birth Document, "The Declaration of Independence."  Our Truths our self-evident not relative, our founders stated.  

 "Consider the famous words of the Declaration of Independence: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident": "Truths"--not "opinions," not "premises," not "assumptions," not "collective myths," not "accepted rules of procedure," not "value-judgments," not "working hypotheses"--but "truths." And what made them truths was that they accorded with what the Declaration calls the "laws of nature and of nature's God.' To the Founders, these God-given truths--that "all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights"--are no more open to discussion or debate than the laws of gravity. They are simply there, part of the created order. And because they are divinely sanctioned, it followed that even if a wicked and depraved majority tried to subvert them in the name of "democracy," the moral minority would be obliged to resist the majority's wishes in the name of moral truth."  Honorable Richard Santorum quoted from The Necessity of Truth August 6, 1999.

In the view of our country's Founding Fathers and our greatest moral teachers, religion--and the truths to which religion points us--is essential to the success of the American experiment. The Founders believed that God is the source of truth--and that it is through religion that the light of self-evident truth will guide Americans in their lives, order their national affairs, and protect their liberty. If we are to resolve the problems that currently threaten to overwhelm us, I am convinced that we first must recover the self-evident truths of our youth and restore this Republic that was birthed from Truth, because truth is not relative, but self-evident.

THE MOST BEAUTIFUL WORDS THAT SPARKED A REVOLUTION OF FREEDOM

hen in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

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.

The Most Beautiful Words that sparked a revolution, that formed the greatest nation on earth, that produced the most freedom, are the words from the preamble of the Declaration of Independence. The preamble contains the fundamental doctrine of government the framers used as a blueprint for the Constitution. The Declaration of Independence, our national birth certificate contains the fundamental doctrine of government, in that, God is the grantor of unalienable rights to all persons, and government is to secure those rights. So, government is subservient to man via a "social compact" a two way agreement with man and government. Man is not subservient to the government, but the Declaration declared that "governments . . . deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed." The Constitution is the compact "deriving its just powers from the consent of the governed." Thus the model the founders established for these United States.

These words, these beautiful words should be committed to memory by all Americans. We should talk of them daily at schools, at work, and at home for it is by these words our nation was founded.

These words are still alive and are the foundation of every conservative. In a recent article, Representative Thaddeus McCotter expressed Five Principles that stand upon these words, these beautiful words."NOW SEIZE FREEDOM:"
1.    Our liberty is from God not the government.
2.    Our sovereignty rests in our souls not the soil.
3.    Our security is through strength not surrender.
4.    Our prosperity is from the private sector not the public sector.
5.    Our truths are self-evident not relative.

Do not despair these words are still relevant today as they were in 1776.

Now take a look at this map, these words are still relevant in the U.S.A., this nation holds fast to conservative principles, so do not despair, FREEDOM WILL PREVAIL.

-Lex Rex

The Invisible Hand BEGINS . . . THE DAY AFTER

November 5, 2008 THE DAY AFTER BARACK OBAMA defeated Senator John McCain to become president-elect of these UNITED STATES.  "The INVISIBLE HAND . . ." blog begins.  Why now? & why "The INVISIBLE HAND . . ."  Now is the time for every true believer in the Founding Documents (U.S. CONSTITUTION & THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE) of the greatest nation in the world not to stand idly by, but to speak the truth  "For Such A Time As This."

For Such A Time As This

"For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time, then shall there enlargement and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place; but thou and thy father's house shall be destroyed: and who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this?" Esther 4:14 Not every time period in history is the same. Scripture speaks of perilous times, times of ignorance, times of refreshment, times of apostasy, times of restitution, etc. It is good to ask ourselves about our times. We should ask ourselves both what our times are and what our times require. Mordecai had obviously asked both these questions. In his challenge to Esther, Mordecai uses the words "such a time as this." He had come to have a sense of what his time was arid what his time required.

So, out of this day arises a voice "THE INVISIBLE HAND . . ."  Adam Smith the father of free-market economics coined the term "INVISIBLE HAND, " from his treatise on economics  "THE WEALTH OF NATIONS. "

Adam Smith mentions the metaphor in Book IV of The Wealth of Nations, arguing that people in any society will employ their capital in foreign trading only if the profits available by that method far exceed those available locally, and that in such a case it is better for society as a whole that they do so.

But the annual revenue of every society is always precisely equal to the exchangeable value of the whole annual produce of its industry, or rather is precisely the same thing with that exchangeable value. As every individual, therefore, endeavors as much he can both to employ his capital in the support of domestic industry, and so to direct that industry that its produce may be of the greatest value; every individual necessarily labors to render the annual revenue of the society as great as he can. He generally, indeed, neither intends to promote the public interest, nor knows how much he is promoting it. By preferring the support of domestic to that of foreign industry, he intends only his own security; and by directing that industry in such a manner as its produce may be of the greatest value, he intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention. Nor is it always the worse for the society that it was not part of it. By pursuing his own interest he frequently promotes that of the society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it. I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good. It is an affectation, indeed, not very common among merchants, and very few words need be employed in dissuading them from it.

(IV.ii.6-9, page 456 of the 1776 Glasgow Edition of Smith’s works; vol. IV, ch. 2, p. 477 of 1776 U. of Chicago Edition.)

The Invisible hand represents the foundation on which our economy stands, the invisible hand represents the forces behind free-market economy, a Limited Government controlled by the U.S. Constitution, so the thus the BLOG NAME.  On September 16, 2008 President-elect Barack Obama gave a speech in Colorado in which he called for an end to our failed economic philosophy: 

A Failed Economic Philosophy
"So let's be clear: what we've seen the last few days is nothing less than the final verdict on an economic philosophy that has completely failed.

And I am running for President of the United States because the dreams of the American people must not be endangered any more. It's time to put an end to a broken system in Washington that is breaking the American economy. It's time for change that makes a real difference in your lives."  WHAT CHANGE MR. OBAMA,  is CHANGE to end our free-markets and have government control the means of production, not on my watch, Mr. President-Elect.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fxz3UgwCR0

We must stand and speak the truth, it is capitalism, free markets & THE INVISIBLE HAND" that has made our country GREAT.  SO do not despair because Truth, and right and conservative ideals advance in the exchange of ideas.

-LEX REX.