Implication of Doing Nothing

This past November, I ran for the House of Representative seat of the 7^th district in Maryland. The most common advice I received was, “Start lower on the ladder: dogcatcher, school board, or State office”. This would have made more sense to me, if I had a passion for any of these positions, or if the current incumbent had a serious challenger.

Now that the election is over, we find our country is accelerating into a self-destruct hole of federal interventionism, worthless paper money, and an economy of eugenics. The Union is out of balance, in that the three branches of government are no longer “checks” of each other; they are enablers. The sovereignty of our individual states, may be our only hope of retaining our inalienable rights?

This past Thursday, I ventured down to the General Assembly in hope of affecting some influence, through our State government. I visited some of the offices of our state delegates, to get co-sponsors for a house resolution to resist this national decline. This resolution, introduced by Delegate Rick Impallaria, is titled, Federal Money and Banking. It urges the United States Congress to restore honest money backed by silver and gold in accordance with the requirements of the United States Constitution, phase out Federal Reserve notes, and return to the free market banking practices that the Founding Fathers codified in the United States Constitution. At this writing, we have fourteen co-sponsors. The delegates were friendly, and encouraged my participation. I was surprised though, by some of the reasons the delegates had for not wanting to co-sign on a resolution, that only “urges” a responsible constitutional monetary policy.

I was only a small part of this effort, and found the staff at these delegate offices to be exceptionally helpful. I spoke personally with a half a dozen delegates, but most would not commit. Several of them specifically gave the reason of, "I don't know enough about it." Article 1 section ten of our Federal Constitution states, “No state shall…make any thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender of Payment of Debts,”. One might think that a delegate should realize that our founding fathers were obviously attempting to secure value within the Union. Another conservative delegate, supported the premise, but wanted to know the "implications", if this resolution would pass? He didn't want to be blamed for the collapse of the dollar.

If, and when, the dollar collapses, it certainly won’t be due to the state of Maryland urging the Federal government to restore a value to our currency. The truth is, that the value of the dollar is collapsing as the credibility of paper money collapses. Colorado, Indiana, and New Hampshire also have honest money bills. We, the states, not only need to urge, but we need to tell the Federal government to stop ignoring our Constitution. When our elected officials take office, they swear an oath on the Bible, to protect and defend the Constitution. In their lack of defense of the Constitution, these officials should be concerned with breaking their oath to God, an implication of doing nothing.