Service over Significance

Today our system of law is largely based on compromise. However, when you compromise, ethics and integrity are lost.  The primary issues we are facing as a country and a state are the ethics and morals in which many in leadership are struggling.  Yes, we have strong issues with our economy, involvement in the war, with the environment, with energy, with taxes and so on.  But above all is the need for a strong moral foundation on which to stand. 

Our founding fathers understood that integrity is a state of being complete and undivided in opinion.  They were a people who possessed firm principles of high moral and professional standards, and who applied those principles to the foundation of our nation.  Our heritage is based on the integrity and the confidence of a people who had uncompromised values, some of whom had died to establish the right to elect the leaders of this land to preserve the peace, prosperity, equality and freedom of all individuals.  

True government is about building a foundation from the ground up.  If you empower the people, then leadership is not about coming from the top down.  Many people today no longer feel empowered as they once did, and it is for this reason a lot of people do not vote.  If those in leadership positions, be it in government or business, understood what it meant to serve the people and empower them, there would be no place for apathy or self service.  There is something to be said about “loving your neighbor as yourself”, and that the “greatest of all is the servant of all.”