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Along Life’s Way
Declarations of Dependence
By Lois E. Wilson
With all the “free stuff” and enticements politicians are dangling
before the 2020 voters, I thought a “Declaration of Dependence” might
be challenging to write. However, I discovered two of them had already
been written—both in 1776. The second one was signed in November of
that year by a group of 547 New York Loyalists. The signers consisted
of merchants, yeomen, freed slaves and others who wished to remain
loyal to the Crown.
A quote from it states: “We have humbly presumed to trouble your
Excellencies with the second application; in which we flatter
ourselves, none participate but those who have ever, with unshaken
fidelity, borne true Allegiance to His Majesty, and the most warm and
affectionate attachment to his Person and Government… We have always
expressed, and do now give this Testimony of our Zeal to preserve and
support the Constitutional Supremacy of Great Britain over the
Colonies; and do most ardently wish for a speedy restoration of that
union between them.”
Some of the “freebies” being offered to us today are: tuition free
college educations, the cancelling of some student-loan debts, free
child care, a guaranteed basic income (estimated to cost 93 trillion
over 10 years), mortgage grants, reparations, and a single-payer health
plan (cost estimated at 3.3 trillion a year which was the entire tax
collected in 2017). As one of the candidates recently said, “There’s
plenty of money in this country. It’s just in the wrong hands.”
There is everything for everyone. You will be taken care of womb to
tomb. The questions are: How dependent do you want to be? Do you want
government to be the master over your life and spend your hard-earned
money for you? Are you going to give it more power perhaps to choose
what college majors you can take to fill certain career fields—what
childcare facilities, government schools, doctors and hospitals are
best suited for your family? Do you remember the promise—“You can keep
your doctor?”
As socialistic goals creep into and take over our form of government,
what will its citizens reap? Would you sign a Declaration of
Dependence? The huge costs of dependence are our freedoms. Once
citizens give all or part of one to the government to administer, it is
almost impossible to get it back.
Our legacy is independence. Self reliance and control can generate
amazing accomplishments and benefits for us and our country’s
advancement and spirit. I hear our founding fathers cry, “Don’t let
your freedoms die.” Will we be wise enough to heed their warning?
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