Common Sense University

            Reading this article’s title, it is probably a sound bet that you are thinking of former President George W. Bush, often referred to as G.W. But you are incorrect: CSU means our first President: George Washington! Today is his birthday, he was born on this day on 1732 and became the first President of the United States of America in 1789 after a very successful career. He is still referred to as the ‘Father of the Country’. Just think, he would be 278 years old today. But it would be intriguing to know what he would think of what is happening in Washington D.C. today.

While George Washington was not a signer of the declaration of Independence, he was a delegate from Virginia and was called to preside over the Constitutional Convention in 1787 in Philadelphia until the final draft of the Constitution was signed on September 17, 1787 and subsequently ratified by nine States by June 21, of the following year.

            In honor of his birthday today, we would like pursue a hypothetical in that we would assume, George Washington could be back for a short period of time and look things over. This would be followed up by a couple of questions to him such as:

• Mr. President, how do you like today’s acceptance of the separation of church and state in that no prayer is allowed in schools and no money can be allocated to religious causes?
• Mr. President, how do you like the U.S. Government owning two American car companies?
• Mr. President, do you think that the U.S. Government should provide health insurance for all Americans who can not afford to pay for it?
• Mr. President, do you think it is alright for the U.S. Government to run up trillion dollar deficits every year for social programs as we have them today?
• Mr. President, do you think that the U.S. Government should pass laws to tax its citizenry for contributing to Global Warming?
• Mr. President, what do you think of the 535 men and women in Congress and how they are serving the country and how well they are representing us, the people of the United States?

            Would it not be nice to find out the answers to the above questions from the very first President of the United States? We think, fortunately we never will but – aside from the technological advances since his days (cars, trains, airplanes, radio and television to name just a few) – he would probably be hugely astounded what he would learn about life today and wonder if the Constitution of this country was still in existence and possibly substituted by something else or done away with altogether. We also think that he would call the men and women running this country to task over why they would think it proper to govern the way they are. He would probably read the Constitution and the first ten Amendments once more and ask more questions and be severely critical of what lawmakers had turned it into.

            We conclude this short trip into the land of the hypothetical with the only thing that we can say to our first President: Happy Birthday and many thanks for what you did for this great country of ours.

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