That which follows is not an expression of partisan bias. I do not belong to a political party.
In recent months we have been in a "much ado mode" about the Contract With America - parts of which are commendable and parts of which will yield diminishing returns. Time and the application of integrity will tell. Comparing, I find little peace when I think of the "Contracts In Western Slope Politics" legislated and enforced throughout my lifetime - many parts of which were seedlings for today's degenerate conditions (not political only) - and for the current call for a "Contract With America."The need for a mature CWA goes back many years. Readiness for the same, for all too many in our nation, is seemingly yet generations away. For petty politicians, demagogues, powermongers and fellow travelers, no time is right for change to legitimacy.
Little wonder that this grand land of freedom and opportunity has become a nation manipulated, exploited, and a laughingstock to many. Have we invited it?
Perhaps the Republican Contract With America, should it accomplish little else, will help awaken some of us to the need for sustaining worthy contracts such as: a contract with integrity (honesty, yes, but much more), with individual responsibility, with morality, with common sense, with posterity's legitimate claims, with GOOD government, with preserving our spiritual heritage, and this list can extend to our achieving "a heaven on earth."
The real "contract with America" needed today is citizen commitment to integrity. We have been and we are increasingly immersing ourselves in soul- and nation-destroying enticements. The Founding Fathers, in their "Contract With America," bequeathed to us a plan for assuring the "GOOD government" urgently needed today. Isn't it unfortunate that we just don't have the time, the talent and the means to preserve it? Or is it a lack of commitment?
God has blessed America. Now, under his direction, most of it should take a turn.
J. Orson Carter
Bountiful