There are Just Some Things That Money Can't Buy... Foreverything Else, There's the US Treasury

The current run on the US treasury over the past six months of bailout mania are a perfect time to illustrate the need for personal responsibility in order to maintain freedom.

Historians Will and Ariel Durant once made the observation that, “if liberty destroys order, the hunger for order will destroy liberty.” The tragedies of ancient Greece and the French Revolution come to mind of societies in which order was destroyed and tyranny was then the applauded successor.

And for at least some time both of these societies were ruled by authoritarian governments, until some kind of order was produced for progress toward individual liberty to continue.
But what pulls society toward this engulfing chaos which can only end in the tragedy of loss of precious liberty. Though there are admittedly many complex answers, one of the biggest is the lack of responsibility.

When human kind recognizes that the primary engine toward success or failure, misery or happiness is themselves, progress and prosperity skyrocket. Place these responsibilities on the backs of others and you find yourself on nonstop one way train to tyranny.
A classic example was seen when the CEO’s of the “Big Three” meandered in front of congress to beg for money to keep their businesses afloat. Congress will eventually grant them the money “they need” in order to “save two million jobs”. But at what cost?

Well there is the obvious cost which has already come to the taxpayer, as now the working men and women of America are now being required to pay for corporate excess and error. There is the cost which will inevitably come to future generations by deficits. And this doesn’t even calculate the potential cost of inflation which will inevitably happen the Fed continues to print money as it does.

Inflation will take its toll on everyone. From fat cat CEO to factory worker, from the white collar worker to the senior citizen finding it more and more difficult to buy anything with the money received in their check.

But I’m talking more about the unseen costs which the auto industry has decided to pay. The price of dignity: Hyundai’s new slogan is “how’s that for a change---a car company that's got your back---not one that you have to back”. As if the US auto industries image couldn’t drop any lower, overnight it hit new lows with them crawling in to the capital with their hands out begging for quick cash.

The price of freedom: When the auto industry accepts its fat check of public funds it’s going to find that the check comes with a whole list of “conditions” which must be met. US auto will not be able to function independently on the basis of their own judgment, but under the direction of a Washington Car Czar.

Is liberty and dignity such cheap commodities in our society that we will sell them for money, any sum of money? Or do we Americans still believe somehow that there are some things “that money just can’t buy…” Oh wait, that’s why we have credit! Thanks master card for teaching me that.

But some of us still believe that there are things which simply aren’t for sell. Yet our politicians and special interest are running left and right to sell our liberties and dignity for temporary security.

NOTHING IS TOO BIG TO FAIL. NOTHING. EVEN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ISN’T TOO BIG TO FAIL!

And who could bail out the United States if she does fail?

Jason Bentley is just a punk college kid who is attending Brigham Young University.