The Cuckoo

In a seemingly crazy and mindless time. Where the Federal Government pulls more and more power from the state and local governments. It struck me that our Federal Government is like the cuckoo, a bird that is synonymous with crazy mindless acts. The cuckoo raids the nest of wrens, and steels one of its eggs replacing it with one of its own. This is like what the bankers did 100 years ago. They replaced sound money and untaxed wages with the Federal Reserve and the Internal Revenue Service.  While putting in place puppets that they bought with campaign contributions. Woodrow Wilson, was one of the first to do their bidding by ratifying the 16^th Amendment and bringing in the IRS and Federal Reserve system.

With the hatching of the cuckoo’s egg, out pops a bird three times the size of the wren’s chicks and it hatches before the wren’s eggs, so it can then push the eggs out of the nest. It then, by making a call that sounds like a nest full of wren chicks, keeps the wren busy bringing it more and more to eat day and night. Until it is too big for the small nest it resides in. This is like the massive expansion of our Federal Government that few have tried to stop. The government, to its liking, has grown far bigger than the Constitution ever allowed, and on the backs of the everyday citizen.

It seems mindless to me, as to why you would want oppressive law creation to be overseen by those far removed from the individuals and businesses that will be affected. Why is it that allowing those at the county level to oversee the majority of law creation is frowned upon and held as contemptible? When the individual has far more influence over the laws created and maintained at the local level. Most cheer when they push another right or liberty under the ‘protection’ of the Federal Government. Not realizing that with every cheer of such actions weakness their voice of protest in the future.

Our Federal Government was never meant to be a Federal Democracy, but a Federal Republic. The reason for this is clear. Under a Federal Republic you do not have Federal intrusion into the acts of the individual or in the markets. They maintain control over state and local laws through the courts. Any unconstitutional law can be argued in front of the courts up to and including the Supreme Court to render a verdict into the Constitutional nature of such laws. Encroachment on state and local laws is held at a minimum, by strictly following the Constitution and Common Law. With a Federal Democracy, thinks that should be argued before state and local officials is rushed to the top, and all-encompassing laws are passed, disregarding the individuals’ rights and freedoms. The more and more the Federal Government takes on the more oversight is created. Those that find this system great, when the laws that passed did not step on what they cherished, will show outrage and disgust, when the system they helped create steps on their freedoms and rights. Which will happen, since corporate manipulation is a key negative to a democracy. Allowing large corporations to influence laws and regulations to win public favor and destroy competition; leads to the destruction of individual rights. One of the key factors that is lost is choice. Since only the few make the decisions for the masses, the number of options an individual has throughout their day to day life dry up. This is happening as we speak, only five companies own all the TV stations in this country, only 2 main companies own all the car manufactures. The list could go one. Consolidation of power, creates consolidation of markets, and of rights. So, the next time you call this country a democracy, think of the cuckoo chick and the tired wren forcibly laboring to feed this growing monster that it was led to believe was hers.