Happy, Happy, Happy: My Life and Legacy as the Duck Commander

ocean like some of these evolutionists would like us to believe; Jefferson believed men were created equal. He also said, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” Those are God-given rights, folks. I’m with Thomas Jefferson.
    Sure, our founding fathers weren’t perfect, and they made mistakes along the way. They allowed slavery to take place in our country for close to a hundred years and didn’t allow women to vote in the beginning, but we as a people atoned for our mistakes and corrected them. The difference between our founding fathers and the cats that are ruining our country today is that men like Washington and Jefferson created the greatest country on Earth and these modern-day politicians didn’t!
    In a letter to several governors of the first states, Washington wrote, “I now make it my earnest prayer, that God would have you, and the State over which you preside, in his holy protection.” There it is; is that the last time you heard one of our politicians offer a meaningful prayer to God Almighty? The only thing today’s politicians want to talk about is separation of church and state, but our founding fathers wholly embraced their Creator.
    Jefferson, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence, could speak ten languages and was studying French,Latin, and Greek when he was nine. When John F. Kennedy, our thirty-fifth president, brought together the Nobel Prize winners at the White House in 1962, he told them, “Ladies and gentlemen, I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.” That’s how much respect and admiration JFK had for Jefferson. And why wouldn’t he? Jefferson authorized the Louisiana Purchase from the French and it turned out to be a pretty good deal!
    Jefferson was a smart cat, and his fears about America’s future are sadly coming to fruition. Jefferson once famously said, “To take from one, because it is thought that his own industry and that of his father’s has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association—the guarantee to every one of a free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it.” Jefferson warned us that socialism would ruin the American democracy, and look what’s happening in our country now. Today, our government is saying the democracy will thrive if you take from those who are willing to work and give to those who aren’t. I have to pay more taxes so that everything can be free for those people who don’t want to work? It’s nonsense. Our governmentis doing exactly what Jefferson warned us against. So the question is, who is right? I think Jefferson was on the right side.
    Jefferson also said, “It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one half the wars of the world.” What is our national debt now? More than $16 trillion, and it’s climbing every minute with no debt ceiling in sight. We made a grave mistake and didn’t pay our debts as a country as we moved forward. Once you don’t pay, you dig a never-ending hole like the one we have now. Look at the financial disaster we’re leaving our future generations. Our children and grandchildren are going to be saddled with debt up to their eyeballs! My reading of history has convinced me that most bad government comes from too much government. Ronald Reagan, our fortieth president, once famously said, “As government expands, liberty contracts.” Right again!
    You know what Jefferson had to say about the health care programs our government is trying to force down our throats? He said, “To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical.” We shouldn’t have to pay for stuff we hate, and I don’t want to pay for a health care program that endorses legalized abortions. No one has the right to make us pay if we don’t want it. Now, the government is saying we have to pay forprograms like health care, whether we like it or not. It’s sinful and tyrannical,