Sometimes people get so caught up in “gotcha!” journalism or sound bytes or politcal correctness that they never stop and think. Think back to something that is much more of a core issue. Something bigger than a politicians sideway’s two-step wordplay. Something greater than some investigative journalism into a person’s personal life to find the skeletons in the closet. Something more… fundamental.

Does it matter that a President can’t keep his wedding vows? Does it matter if there were weapons of mass destruction?

In a sense, no. Hear me out.

I say that because have rules and laws that are the core of our country. There are enumerated powers given to the federal government. If a President can’t keep his vows, that shows his personal moral issues but doesn’t change the constitution. If there were never really any weapons of mass destruction, does it really matter? We’re not the world police and we cannot realistically expect to police the world for anything our President finds worthy of war (I won’t get into the fundamentally flawed methods we chose to go to war yet). Not if we were following and enforcing our own rules.

If we the people were enforcing the laws of the constitution and stuck to our own guns, the President could lose his self control with a woman outside of the marriage and it would only embarrass him. The constitution would be the box the President is in would limit him from bringing those morals into his governing. The true balance of power would keep this moral decay from entering our laws.

If we the people were holding the politicians feet to the fire, the President could not declare war on a fishing expedition, or revenge for his father, or oil, or whatever. The Congress would have to declare war and it would have to be at the will of the people or in direct defense of the nation’s security. The self-righteous, self-serving war machine could not run rampant under our constitution.

The breakdown in enforcing the constitution may have started in the early 1900′s or it could have started when Bush took office or it could have started with Obama taking his oath. It doesn’t matter. The constitution is for all Presidents and any abuse of it that isn’t rectified is the fault of the apathetic citizenry. Freedom is as much a responsibility as it is an asset. As much as we would like to blame the politicians and special interest groups, it is our own fault for not noticing the slippery slope we have been on for many many years. Why can we all of a sudden defend the constitution against this President? Why not the last? Where have we been? How can we justify the blind eye to the previous administration or a blind eye to the current administration while crucifying the other?

The rules are clear. The constitution is clear. It is not a living document. It is not open to interpretation. The more we ignore the rotting at the core and the burning around the edges the more we can expect it to be destroyed and abused. The longer we wait to enforce the rules, the harder it is going to be to start enforcing them.

Think this to yourself… Do you believe that career politicians are crooked? Are they lying for votes? Are they abusing the public’s trust? Do they avoid speaking what they really feel to gain or retain votes? Do they take favors from special interests? Do they get treated like a better class of citizen compared to the average American citizen?

Most people are going to answer yes to quite a few of these questions. Now that you have that thought, why would you possibly vote to give them more power over you and your fellow citizen? Why would you vote to give them more money for a Wall Street bailout? Why would you want to create another entitlement program? Why would you give them a blank check for a continuous state of war? If you are for the public health care option, why would you think that they could handle running over fifteen percent of our economy? What has given you the idea that sending more money and power into a corrupt soulless system will either fix the problem or even just be neutral?

Is it a coincidence that the middle class is struggling with bills and our Wall Street counterparts get our money because they screwed up? Is it a coincidence that the big businesses are characterized as “too big to fail” when small business is cast aside in favor of Government Motors, AIG, Chrysler, etc.? Is it a coincidence that our dollar is now worth five percent of what it was a hundred years ago due to inflation?

Now that we’re all thinking about core issues and how they effect everything else, let’s address the current hot topic. The item the government has shoved into the town halls and newspapers and television programs is health care. Let’s address just this one issue using something that is a fundamental issue. The problem preached is people can’t afford insurance. All of a sudden, the biggest problem our country faces isn’t our currency crisis, it isn’t the three countries we’re at war in, it isn’t the dead soldiers being ignored by our media, it isn’t our coming economic depression, it is the health care system.

Now let’s see how we can fix this using a fundamental issue.

Let’s imagine we are controlling a family called the Jones. There’s two adults and their two children. One of the parents was laid off. One of their kids is about to go to college. Money is very tight. They can’t further afford health insurance nor can the put money away to pay cash for routine treatment. Why is this? The parent that was laid off says it is because the economy is in the tank. Why is the economy in the tank? We have had bubbles bursting in our economy since 1997. Why are we having these bubbles? Because the interest rates on loans are too low (very similar to the Great Depression). Why are interest rates too low? Because the “Federal” Reserve said so. At the same time we’re facing bubbles, the cost of living is going through the roof. Energy, housing, health care, food, everything has increased. Why is inflation so high? Because we’re spending more money than we ever have while borrowing $1.4 trillion from China and Japan just to keep ourselves at a $1.8 trillion dollar annual deficit (projected 2009). How are we doing this? We’re monetizing the debt! Well by we I mean the “Federal” Reserve.

Eek! OK so the root cause of this is the “Federal Reserve”. Let’s say we go back in time to 1990. Let’s say we remove the control of the “Federal” Reserve on interest rates. The market opens up to lenders. Lenders want to make money so they set the interest rate high enough to make a profit but low enough to win customers. Customers of the lenders want the lowest interest rate possible so competition breeds a steady interest rate. Let’s say it is stable at seven percent interest.

The Internet boom starts growing and growing. Unlike previously, this time the money that was borrowed to speculate in the market isn’t as cheap. People don’t repeat the mistakes of the Great Depression by borrowing and borrowing and borrowing and lending and lending and lending. This time the market set interest rates keep the stock prices of companies at a steady rate and makes investors search for good companies to invest in. They want to make good money on their returns. An IPO for PETS.COM isn’t the instant millionaire this time. This makes lenders find good people to lend to. They want to lend money to make interest but they don’t want to give it to fools investing into business plans that are faulty or overpriced investments into real estate.

This keeps the bubble from forming. In doing so, it also keeps the bubble from bursting. This stabilizes the economy. There would still be bears and bulls but they would be much less violent. This isn’t a utopia and shouldn’t be advertised as one. But this is much more stable than the bubble economy we’re experiencing in our lives now. The boom was fun but the burst is life changing.

On top of the market staying stable, this keeps the government from running the Wall Street Welfare program. This keeps the government from spending countless billions  and trillions buying public companies or putting bad debt accumulated by this huge companies on the tax payers balance sheet. This keeps our government from having to borrow our currency into oblivion.

What does this mean to the Jones? The parent that was laid off didn’t get laid off. Their income might not have been as high as it is currently but the cost of living wouldn’t be nearly as high. The cost of oil would be lower since the dollar is more powerful. The price of real estate wouldn’t have tripled or quadrupled so their mortgages would be much lower even though the market’s interest rate would be higher than the “Federal” Reserve wants it to be. The price of sending a child to college would be much less since it would be more expensive for student loans and colleges would have to compete to keep costs low to their customers (the parents of the students or the students themselves).

What does this have to do with health care? The same theories apply to health care. They would be able to afford the insurance payment. The price of health care wouldn’t have exploded along with the inflation and cost of living increases in every other aspect of the American life (Doctors have to pay a mortgage too, you know). The premiums offered by insurance companies would be lower because the dollar would be more powerful. The premiums would be lower because there would be less people without insurance going to the emergency room and stiffing the hospital for their care. The hospitals and doctors wouldn’t have to increase their rates to make up for inflation, cost of living, and what I like to call, donated health care.

Now with this one issue addressed, you can see why arguing about the health care issue is better dealt with at a core level. The very dollar used to pay the insurance companies, the doctors, the hospitals, it is at its core, being deliberately destroyed. Why? Because in 1913, we let the “Federal” Reserve slowly remove the concept of a dollar backed by gold. At the core of America is capitalism and with a flawed currency, that isn’t much of a core.

Quit arguing about whether or not Obama is a citizen of the United States. Quit arguing if there were WMD’s or if Bush did it for oil. We are being robbed blind at every level because we’re letting our currency get destroyed by the “Federal” Reserve. The fundamental issue is our currency and it absolutely overrides any other issue in the news today.

We all need to unite, regardless of political party, and face the thief in the night. Regardless of what political party we have next to our name, we’re being robbed and our political campaigns and policies won’t mean much when we have currency that is worthless.