ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS

I first heard this proverb from my mother when I was very young. This old English proverb likely has never been more applicable than it is today. Nor has it likely adversely affected more people at one time than by the ambitious young Democrat President pretending to represent a nation of 130 million people. His ascendency was only by a small 52 percent of the voters, yet by his oath of office he promised to uphold the Constitution of all the people. His smooth and loquacious speech with vague promises of “uniting” the parties, “transparency” of legislation, being “against big government,” and opposing pork-barrel “earmarks” could not have been more dishonestly spoken when judged against his actions in his first six weeks in elected office.

In the pre-election time there were a few clues to his true intensions, such as his announced belief in “spread the wealth around” statement to Joe, the plumber, and his frequent referrals to “tax the rich.” But his speeches were structured to sound ‘middle-of-the-road,’ so that working people could anticipate a regime of modified conservative administration that would preserve market exchange and reduced taxes. Instead, the opposite has been pushed. A clear anti-business passage of bills reflecting long-held “liberal,” Left-wing agenda has been passed without even time to read them by either party. They are filled with “earmarks,” and “transparency” has entirely been scrapped. Still, the glib teleprompter speech and the public appearances on television programs are selling an image of popularity of Obama while the financial status of the whole country sinks. Some conservative commentators believe this occurrence is by his and his party’s intent and design.

This proverb concept obviously is not new. Perhaps one of the best similarly-stated maxims of this idea is the one attributed to one from Russia, “What you do rings so loudly in my ears, I cannot hear what you say.” Voltaire, in his XIVth Dialogue said: “Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.”

The conclusion is crystal clear. A straight-forward, honest presentation of his socialistic beliefs would fail. Therefore, since a forethought presentation of real meaning of collectivist intent will fail, as history has proved innumerable times, it is necessary to make confusing and deceitful statements like Obama’s: “We’ve been operating in a way that has been entirely consistent with free-market principle.” But, putting more and more of the government in charge of more and more of the economy is entirely inconsistent with free-market principles. Such outrageous statements can only be believed if repeated often enough.

It is time for the deceived and unstudied voting citizens of this great and up-to-now successful country of individuals to wake up and start thinking and comparing to realize that our liberties are being diminished before our very eyes and ears by soothing but deceptive speech and secretive but destructive action.

David L. Wood, M.D., Long Beach, CA, March 22, 2009; word count 498.

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