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If you were asked for examples of company-backed volunteer work, you’d most likely talk in terms of blood drives, perhaps a Christmas call for donations, and no more, but this is simply not true in the modern day. The staff members of Adaptive Marketing are frequently provided with the chance to get involved in a full range of community initiatives. With all relevant information — location, time, date, specifics of event, et cetera — publically posted it became very simple for staff to settle how much time they could give and what program they’d join. Making sure volunteers have their say in what initiatives are available is essential. Companies involved in this like Adaptive Marketing, offer their employees a diverse list of events. Staff members may find themselves getting involved in arts, working with young adults, promoting green initiatives etc. Adaptive Marketing’s employees will be certain to have a project they’ll enjoy taking part in, ensuring they’ll spend their time happily as well as productively.

Commonly a company-supported charity project — getting involved with a homeless shelter or helping out at a local school — is either for a one-off event or on a regular schedule designed to achieve a bigger goal. Staffers may well claim that they have no time to give, though we’d be surprised if they truly cannot set aside the hours to help at one instalment of a long-term project. It has always been a regular practice for companies to help to support the people of their hometown. Adaptive Marketing like many other businesses supports volunteer programs in part to spread goodwill through the local community by the actions of its members of staff. Something that volunteer work is guaranteed to do is leave your staff feeling good about themselves, creating a motivated corporate culture. Creating the opportunity to help employees set aside the time to volunteer is beneficial to everyone involved.

Why isn’t citizenship a choice and a
test? Why am I automatically a citizen
by an accident of birth? If citizenship
was a choice for legal adults to make,
how many residents would choose it?
How does my age qualify me to vote? If
I know nothing about anything, I have
the same power at the polls as those
who know much, which if the polls are
rigged as they easily can be, is no
power at all. Why is that fair? I don’t
have to know a thing about law of any
kind to sit on a jury and judge another.
All I have to do is follow instructions
that could be and often are unlawful.

The greatest error in the
Constitution is to allow government
credit. Credit allows all the power of
revenue with no accountability for its
use. It overrules wisdom and planning.
It increases the power of central
bureaucracy. The United States is
insolvent. It cannot pay its debts next
year, ten years from now or twenty. All
of this will collapse of its own weight
like a stick house in a stiff wind. Are
you ready? Do you care?

Incorporation and many aspects of
government are privileges that no
person has a right to bestow on any
agency, because a person has no right
to such privilege her/himself. Privilege
creates obligation to the grantor and
that is why government grants
incorporation privileges to businesses.
If government derives any power from
the consent of the governed, the
governed must possess this power to
begin with. I have no power to limit
your civil and social liabilities to your
company, so you can keep your
personal bank account in the event of a
lawsuit or criminal proceedings. So how
can I grant this power to you or anyone
else? I have no power to force you to
fight a battle for me. If I join with
others who do not have this power, we
do not suddenly have this power among
us, by the act of union. Multiply zero
one hundred times and we still have
zero. I cannot rightfully demand that
you pay me taxes or render me any
service whatsoever. Nor can I gain this
power by uniting with others who also
don’t have it. We pretend government
has powers granted to it by us, we
never had ourselves and never will. As
long as most of us are willing to
pretend government has derived
powers from us, it all works. It just
doesn’t work very well for any but the
wicked. To better understand the things I
am saying, it is good to read the
writings of John Locke, the philosopher
who had such a profound influence on
many of America’s founding fathers. Mr.
Locke shows us the differences between
natural law and social contract, moral
foundation and moral fraud. The whole
world owes him a great debt and few
Americans have a clue who he was. It is
much like when we ask a musician who
her influences were. When she tells us,
we have a much better understanding
of her work. We hear some little about
our founding fathers, but not about
those who influenced them. Therefore,
we don’t understand the founders as we
should. Nor do judges who are
supposed to interpret law by the intent
of the lawmakers. In short, ignorance
prevents justice and true social welfare.
John Locke was a well reasoned expert
on absolute morality, without
preaching. This is a subject that has
most of the world confused, especially
leadership. Locke paints a clear picture
with the most reasoned and intelligent
style I have ever read. No American
should ever graduate from high school
without a thorough dose of John Locke.
He remains a brilliant light in a dark
and fearful world. He certainly cleared
up a lot of confusion about morality and
government for me. Once we see the
moral high ground, no one can confuse
us about duty and honor. No one can
bend us to their will for their own
wicked intentions. We see what was
hidden and remains so for most. We
won’t be fooled again.

Even if you were my child, I cannot
contract your services to anyone
beyond your age of legal majority.
When the founders of the great federal
estate got the States to ratify, by fraud
and deceit, they decided the
government they all agreed to abide
by. It had no power over their children
or any descendants thereafter. A
contract, which the Constitution is,
binds no one but the contractors until
they nullify it or die. Therefore, you are
free to live as you choose and contract
with whom you choose. If you do not
exercise this freedom carefully, you will
be punished by those who claim rights
and powers they never had and never
will.

To be free in America is to keep
your ideas to yourself and keep a low
profile. You are free until you come to
the attention of the privileged. You
accept your punishment quietly and
know that freedom does have a price.
You do best to minimize the payments
for yourself and others. For most, it
seems good to be enslaved to the
corporate, money lover world but
encouraged to call this slavery
freedom. Few choose to be free.
Freedom is uncertainty and that scares
people out of their wits. Slavery is
certain and we all know the rules. That
brings us comfort and certainty, most of
the time; until there is a crisis in
confidence, which ends many a
confidence game.

The original idea of independence
from Britain was the liberty of every
American Englishman in particular. That
idea died with the founders. Now we
want equality of slavery. We think we
want to be treated all alike. We want
the rich slaves to share their money
and power with the poor slaves and
vote for those who help us believe we
can make them share. Freedom works
by the law of supply and demand, just
like everything in a free market, under
the old world value system. Demand is
down, the price is right. The book is now about 30 years old
but I bought it in paperback a few years
ago. It’s called How I Found Freedom in
an Unfree World by Harry Browne. I
cannot recommend it too highly. In the
first part of the book, Harry tells us
about all the traps we fall into, which
rob us of freedom. Most of us fall into
several of them. In the last part of the
book, he tells us how to get out of
these traps. None of the work is hard
on the road to freedom, it only requires
a sincere desire to get free. Once you
have the desire, the work is usually
pleasant and sometimes great fun.
Freedom is our birthright and most of
us have sold it for peanut butter
sandwiches, as Esau sold his for soup.
In a nutshell, if you are going to be free
and you are going to weather all the
coming storms in some semblance of
comfort, you must end the
dependencies that have been created
for you, often before you were born.
Independence, which means liberty, is
another way of saying not dependent. It
isn’t a gift from government or
grandpa. It is a choice you make every
day, even if you are sure you never had
a choice.

You have been told choose this and
you will be free. You did, but you don’t
feel free, you feel obligated to others.
You created some obligations and you
accepted others handed to you. You
were told some of these are your duty,
others build character and you accepted
them. Until you begin to see the
possibilities independence suggests,
you will never know what you have
been missing and how your personal
growth has been restricted. Break out
of the traps and dependencies. Plan
your way out as you would a prison
escape and you will likely succeed to
survive a turbulent, uncertain future.
Even prison offers only so much
protection and security; ask someone
who has been there.

Ed Howes sought and found, knocked and entered. Now he sees things differently. To see more of what he sees, please visit http://www.justanotherview.com