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As I write this morning the US stock market is up over 5%. After suffering through the past two weeks there is hope the trend holds. But we are looking forward at a new financial landscape of decreased savings, increased US government financial regulation, tighter international monetary controls and uncertainty the changes and intervention will return our economy to what we have known and expected for so many decades.

Our country has experienced uncertainty before. Our forefathers must have taken a deep breath when they signed our Constitution flaming the ire of England. Lincoln spent many sleepless nights as he saw countless numbers of our men shed blood for the rights and equality of all men. The men and women of our country shuddered with fear as they learned of the devastation of Pearl Harbor and the list goes on. We have faced trial before and we will face trial again. It is life.

As leaders we should remember what kept our country moving forward in the face of uncertainty. It was the certainty of self and faith. In the face of change we must look in the mirror, smile and understand that it is up to ourselves to make our world work. Our culture has come to depend on government to solve all problems and frankly they can’t and as we have learned we can’t always trust the motives of our politicians. Luckily our forefathers understood this and established checks and balances so we could ensure self rule and self worth. We must rely on self and not forget our constitutional framework or the responsibility we all hold for making our systems work.

All those mentioned who have led or participated in meeting uncertainty head on had faith. Most carried a deep faith in God and all had a deep faith in the outcome of right. All people…liberty for all…equality…fairness…and that the power of our people must be certain.

When life is uncertain, be certain in your self and your faith in right. Our country has been built on this foundation. It feels that we have lost this understanding some in the recent past but the majority understands and holds it well.

I’m certain.

“I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.”

“Delay is preferable to error.”

“The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.”

“I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.”

“To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.”

“The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.”

“When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.”

“Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.”

Thomas Jefferson