Where's the Line?

Commit

1. Welcome back! We’re on the last of the four “Where’s the Line?” steps. So far, in the “Study” video we learned that our unique constitutional system is a “Compound Republic” with essential “external checks” for the states to keep the federal government from getting out of control. In the “Share” video, we learned that a small group of committed friends and neighbors truly can make a difference. And, in the “Ask” video, we learned that “asking is teaching” to help our representatives grow “two feet taller” constitutionally and come to understand “Where’s the Line, America?”
2. Now, we finish with the fourth “Where’s the Line, America?” step by asking you to “Commit” whatever time, talents, resources, and relationships you can to help build the national dialogue about “Where’s the Line, America?” 
3. Let’s take a look at each one of these:
   1. Time – We spent 80 years being taught that the only “check and balance” is what happens in Washington, with Washington supposedly controlling Washington, and only through “Separation of Powers.” It’s going to take time to reach the many people and organizations who might be ready to “Study”, “Share” and “Ask” “Where’s the Line, America?” There are lots of ways to do this, and lots of projects we are organizing, that simply take people with time. If you have time to help, please go to the “Commit” tab on the website at www.WheresTheLineAmerica.com and log in. [please log your information in here]
   2. Talents – building a national dialogue about “Where’s the Line, America?” will take a lot of different talents and skills in areas like : graphic design, social media, video production, database management, research, event planning, fundraising, curriculum development, etc. If you have special talents or skill that you think can help build the national dialogue about “Where’s the Line, America?,” please go to the “Commit” tab on the website at www.WheresTheLineAmerica.com and log in. [please log your information in here]
   3. Resources – our Founders pledged their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor to secure the blessing of liberty for us. George Washington said about the critical internal and external checks and balances they designed into our Constitution, “to preserve them must be as necessary as to institute them.” We really do have the opportunity to write with our actions the history of this moment of our country. Any amount of money you can contribute or raise to help build the national dialogue about “Where’s the Line, America?” will help to teach our nation and our representatives to preserve the forgotten external checks of our unique constitutional system to the end of restoring the balance between the states and the federal government that allowed our country to become the greatest source for liberty, peace and prosperity the world has ever known. If you are able to contribute any amount of resources to build the national dialogue about “Where’s the Line, America?”, please go to the “Commit” tab on the website at www.WheresTheLineAmerica.com and log in. [please log your information in here]
   4. Relationships – we all heard that “it’s not what you know, but who you know that makes the difference.” If you have relationships with state or national representatives, community leaders, heads of companies or organizations who may be willing and able to help build the national dialogue about “Where’s the Line, America?,” please go to the “Commit” tab on the website at www.WheresTheLineAmerica.com and log in. [please log your information in here]
4. We have a lot of serious problems related to Washington taking on way too much power and way too much debt because we in our states didn’t exercise the essential “external checks” our Constitution requires states to do. But, “We’re America!” Those who pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor to establish this nation, have left the DNA of liberty in the soul of this country. 
5. Only 12% committed to the original cause of the liberty of this nation. As the father of the original revolution said, “It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.” If 12% of us can’t get “irate” and tirelessly committed to restraining a $14 Trillion debt and Washington controlling whether a special education class can have a bake sale in the outskirts of Utah, what can we get “irate” and tirelessly committed about?
6. Americans are the most charitable and service-oriented people in the world. We know hard work and sacrifice, and we know the how our rights and liberties were “purchased . . . for us” as Samuel Adams said, “with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood.”
7. Thank you for taking time to watch these videos. Please share them with your friends, and on Facebook, websites and other social media. Become a “Liner” and commit to build the national dialogue wherever you have influence.
8. In closing, it seems that these words of President Ronald Reagan are more appropriate for our day than they ever were for his: 

"This is a wonderful time to be alive, . . . we're lucky not to live in pale and timid times. We've been blessed with the opportunity to stand for something -- for liberty and freedom and fairness. And these are things worth fighting for, worth devoting our lives to. And we have good reason to be hopeful and optimistic. . . . So, let us go forth with good cheer and stout hearts -- happy warriors out to seize back a country and a world to freedom.” (Ronald Reagan, March 8, 1985)