United Nations Power Grab

United Nations newest power grab

            It often amazes me that the politicians think we, the general public, don’t remember what they have done in the past. This time I’m referring to the United Nations. They are trying again to take over our nation’s environmental policy and use it to drive our economy. In the recent meetings leading up to the U. N. sponsored Rio 20 in June of this year, the philosophy behind the decisions will include “capacity building,” which means, in this context, an agreed system of wealth transfers to prepare recipient nations for future, larger transfers. In other words transfer money from wealthy nations, us, to less wealthy nations under the guise of Green environmental philosophy.

            If this sounds familiar, it is. Remember as recently as Al Gore’s Inconvenient Truth and the use of bias scientific data. Also even the United Nations own environmental data has been shown to be manipulated. I may focus a little more on the science than most due to my background as a Meteorologist. The manipulation of data is probably the most egregious thing a scientist can do. By biasing the base data, any other scientist using the data will have their results skewed and in the end positions based on their studies will have false results.  This is what has happened with the U. N. data, which most scientist were not allowed to verify all of the base data. These are not things to base changing our economy and political system.

            This does not even address the philosophical view of shift earnings from your pocketbook to less wealthy nations. It is my belief that Americans do want to help out where we can. Currently we send $6.3 Billion to the U. N., $52 Billion in Foreign Aid and $24 Billion in private contributions.  No other nation comes anywhere close. This does not count the lives that we have lost saving millions of people from tyranny and disease.

            Our revolution to get away from the tyranny of Great Britain was to give us freedom to make our own decisions. For over two hundred years we have followed that philosophy and helped the world become a better place. As Ronald Reagan said, “America is a shining city upon a hill whose beacon light guides freedom-loving people everywhere." Turning our economy and political system over to the United Nations is returning to the tyranny our ancestors fought so hard against.

The Land of Opportunity

            I know you have observed that almost all immigration for the United States involves people coming to the U. S. versus leaving us. The vast majority of workers in the world that are allowed to see the opportunities available in America want to take advantage of those possibilities. The reason for these opportunities is the basis that the United States was founded on: Individual Liberty, Freedom of Choice and the Opportunity for All to Succeed. As you can tell that is a recurring theme of my belief in America. Recently, I believe the Federal government has moved away from those principles.

            We need to go back to the founding of the country to establish the purpose of our Federal Government. It is to defend the country and provide equal opportunity to all citizens. There is much more detail provided but they always come back to those principles. While we initially failed to recognize the rights of people of color, females and numerous other minorities, we still use the guiding principle of equal opportunity for all. I’ll leave the discussion for minority rights for another discussion.

            It is my belief that the best way to provide equal opportunity is through education. Many decry our education system, yet from my observation there is a tremendous input of the best students from other countries attending college here and very few Americans moving overseas for four years of college. We do need to improve our secondary education in many areas but we do have excellent public schools in areas throughout the country. My children have attended secondary education and college in the public arena and all three are very successful in their fields. My desire is to return education policy and funding to the local level; at least the state if not county level. As I’ve learned throughout the years, it’s best to solve the problem by being closest to it. The Department of Education’s main purpose is to collect revenue from taxpayers and redistribute it back to the states as they see fit. While the Federal Authorities believe they know best, I believe the State, County and individual schools know what they need to do best. Let them have the reins and run with it. Hold them accountable and reward success.

            This is really more of a chicken and the egg issue: improve the school and parents get involved or parents get involved and the school improves. We have many superb educators who want to improve the system. Let’s get out of their way and let them provide the equal opportunity to all.