In God We Trust

Diana Hood with "In God We Trust"

Diana Hood was a local artist dedicated to God, her country, and her family.  She lived a life surrounded by those she loved, including her husband and friends.  A few days ago she slipped peacefully away to join her Lord and wait on the arrival of the rest of her family.  Diana Hood succumbed to the brain cancer that had ravaged her for years.

As an artist, Diana never gave up on her passion for painting and design.  When asked by the Miller County Republican Committee to provide a special painting for the planned headquarters, she agreed immediately.  For over a week, Diana labored through the pain.  Her love for God, her country and fellow Republicans propelled her forward to complete a beautiful painting at the headquarters. 

Friends noted that Diana would paint, stop, rest, and even sit down for long periods of time.  As soon as she regained her strength, she would return to the task.  She had one simple mission in mind.  She wanted to provide the Republican Headquarters for the 2012 election year with a picture of the American Flag and the words, “In God We Trust”.  Time continued and hours became days.  Finally, when she had finished, headquarters staff took several pictures of Diana with her flag and the motto.  She was proud of the accomplishment. 

Diana Hood never attended a meeting at the new headquarters, but people took notice.  Few have entered the headquarters without commenting on how beautiful the flag looks.  At night, when the headquarters closes, lights are left on near the flag.  It is one of the few areas illuminated both day and night.  When Diana passed away, she was able to leave one, last contributing piece of art to the Miller County Republican Party and for the nation she loved.  She was able to incorporate God, the most important aspect of her life, into her art. 

At the end of the year, the headquarters will be released and new renters will likely move into it.  Sadly, they may even decide to paint over Diana’s painting.  In the meantime, headquarters staff continue to take pictures, share Diana’s story, and preserve the image digitally for the committee records.   The work will not be lost thanks to photography.   Diana’s work will live on in pictures of the painting named “In God We Trust”.  Facing her final months of life, Diana gave back in the only way she could.  She gave in her art.  “In God We Trust” was Diana Hood’s last painting.

R or O and What it Really Means in November

President Obama seems to think that big government is the way to make the economy grow.  He in particular seems to think that government control of everything is the proper way to fix our nation’s problems.  Unfortunately, Obama has failed to learn from history.  Maybe this fundamental failure to understand history is one of the reasons he was not a highly respected professor.  Nonetheless, he has failed to understand that the government has accomplished the most when it interferes the least.

From the days of the founders, the government has relied on the people.  Anytime in history, when people have started to rely on their government, the government failed.  Ultimately, when the government failed, the nation failed, and when the nation failed, a new nation was formed.  Someone only has to look to the Soviet Union to see a prime example of the people depending on the government.  In the Soviet Union people depended on the government for food, electricity, news, vehicles, direction, etc.  They depended on it for everything.  In the end, the Soviet Union failed. 

Consider this in the Revolutionary War; the government did not defend the people.  The people defended the government.  Farmers, businesspersons, ship builders, blacksmith, physicians, preachers, and others all came together to defend the government.  The government essentially had nothing.  The government had no money, no tax system, no army, no ships, no food, no national currency, and even no building of its own.  The Declaration of Independence was drawn up in a Masonic Lodge.  The founders contributed their own money to fund the government.  The truth is the only thing the government had was some papers saying it was a government.  People came forward with their skills, abilities, money, and assets and they supported the government. 

Fast forward through all the trials this country has faced and it has always been the people who have supported the government, not the government supporting people.  At least it has been this way until recently.  When Obama took office, he immediately began doing exactly what he said he would do.  He began to force people to redistribute wealth.  He instituted a failed Soviet policy to take money from the rich and give it to the poor.  He gave away money, he gave away healthcare, he gave away cell phones, and he even gave away the Chrysler Corporation (check your records and you will see he sold it at a loss to an Italian company, Fiat).  To be blunt, he gave, gave, gave, gave, and gave.  The only problem is, he gave what was not his to give.  He gave your money away.  Obama failed to realize that until the early 1900s, this country did not even have an income tax!  The government was sponsored by the people, not through force, but through pride.  When the United States entered World War 2, the people won the war, not the government.  People worked in factories, farms, and on the front lines to ensure the United States did not become the socialist form of government that Hitler wanted.  In the end, the United States won the war, not the government.  Today, Obama has forgotten these basic principles.  Obama has forgotten that while people need help from time-to-time that ultimately people need to know how to fish, not simply be given a fish.  Obama wants Americans, every American, to be dependent on the government for everything.  Obama wants a socialist form of government that has failed repeatedly.  It failed in Nazi Germany, it failed in the Soviet Union, it is failing in Cuba, it is failing in North Korea, and it will ultimately fail in China. 

On November 6, if American’s go to the poles and elect Obama again, they will be electing him to a position where he can truly implement his plans to bring America into a socialist form of government.  Fortunately, Americans have a choice.

Mitt Romney is an American who understands American principles.  Like Ronald Reagan, Romney understands that the government should not support people, but that people should support the government.  The government is to work for the people, not run people’s lives.  Romney has seen what it takes to build companies.  He has seen what it takes to recover from hardships and financial crisis.  Romney has been a leader on the front lines when things did not look good.  Most importantly, Romney knows socialism fails.  Romney knows that the only way America is going to recover is to recover with the work of the people.  He knows the government is not the answer.  Romney will help the people by helping the government get out of the people’s way. 

In November, the choice is bigger than Republican or Democrat.  The choice, as many Democrats supporting Romney know, is for the America we built, or for the socialist America that Obama wants to finalize.  This November it is not about an “R” or a “D” behind the name.  This November the “R” in Romney means “Rebuild” and the “O” in Obama simply means it is “Over”….

Romney: Believe in America

After Obama was elected President, his wife commented that for the first time in her adult life she was proud to be an American.  She was proud to be an American because her husband had been elected President.  With this understanding, we can safety assume that she would not be proud to be an American if her husband had not been elected.  Recently she made a questionable remark about doing a service for “just a flag” to her husband.  Her husband, our President, shook his head in agreement. 

Since taking office, Obama has apologized for America, avoided the National Day of Prayer (a tradition started by a Democrat President), and bowed to foreign, Muslim leaders.  He has offended our allies and raised their concern.  He has started working with the United Nations to go behind the United States Constitution and allow the U.N. to demand a worldwide ban on firearms –something his current administration is still cooperating with through Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.  Beyond all this, he has failed to provide the economic relief his programs promised, he has forced a healthcare law onto Americans that few wanted, and he raised taxes – something confirmed by the recent Supreme Court ruling regarding healthcare being a tax.  Recently, Secretary of State Clinton stated that the President’s Administration was “proud” to see the direction France is taking.  France just elected a member of the Socialist Party as President.  President Obama has embraced the Socialist ideas from failed governments around the world.  He is a failed President.

Mitt Romney offers something new and something that few American’s could hope for in an Obama Administration.  Romney offers real hope.  Romney is credited with saving the 2002 Olympics, he is credited with creating jobs at Staples, and while serving as Governor he helped the state of Massachusetts rebound with an unemployment rate that fell from 5.6% when he took office to 4.7%.  This incredible record not only created thousands of new jobs in the state, but when he left the state it had a $2 Billion Dollar rainy day fund.

 

Romney has proved his ability to lead, he has proved his ability to save an economy, and perhaps the most important he has proved he will stand for and with America.  A few minutes of listening to his speeches and a voter can hear the passion in the voice.  A voter can hear the commitment of a man ready and willing to put America back on track.  One of the interesting things that Romney has said is “Obama cannot run on his record.”  Romney is right; Obama cannot run on his record because his record has failed.  Romney does not have to make up stories or offer, “hope and change”.  Romney just has to stand.  His record already speaks for itself.  Romney will be a President of the people who will work for the people.  He will put America back to work, put America back on top, and repair the damage done to America in the eyes of our people and the world by the Obama Administration.  Once Mitt Romney steps into the White House in January of 2013, we will once again know that “America’s best days are yet to come.”  Americans never stopped believing in America, we just had a four-year hiatus while Obama attempted to tear us down.  It is interesting that another word for hiatus is “recess”.  Well, recess is over.  It is time to put Romney in charge of ringing the bell of freedom and capitalism once again around the world to bring America back.  It is still the time to believe in America.

Raising The Flag

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