What Are the Duties of Government?

Posted on February 21, 2013 | Leave a comment

As I was driving the other day (don’t remember where or why… from point a to point b, it doesn’t matter) a very revealing and liberating thought occurred to me. Must have been Divinely placed, because I’m not really this smart.

Our Federal Government really only has two duties:

  1. To protect our nation & it’s citizens against all enemies, foreign & domestic.
  2. To defend, protect, and enforce the Constitution of the United States of America.

Think about it… Since the day our nation was created, beginning with the Declaration of Independence and ending with the Constitution of the United States (as originally ratified – including the Bill of Rights), it was NEVER intended that our Federal Government would be this big, nor be this involved in our daily lives. (OH! Let me clarify here, before I get accused of racism, that the 13th Amendment is a valid, Constitutional, extension of those two duties.)

Our Founding Fathers didn’t even include any method of taxation in those founding documents!!!

That didn’t begin until the “Civil War” (which was not a civil war, but a War of Secession). Before that, funds necessary for the operations of government were collected from sales taxes (on a very limited number of goods) and tariffs. Tariffs have been eliminated (for the most part) because they have unintended detrimental consequences to our economy. Regardless, even after the Civil War, the income tax was eliminated and didn’t come back permanently until 1913 with the ratification of the 16th Amendment.

So the fact that we have Departments of Education, Labor, Energy, Agriculture, Interior, Insurance, and Travel, and Health & Human Services, are all different heads of the leviathan that was never intended to exist! Those two duties (listed above) only support the existence of the Department of Defense. Even the Department of Homeland Security is a redundancy.

Yet, our Founding Fathers DID include the 10th Amendment which states:

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

Therefore, EVERYTHING else that our federal government has done, is doing, and is attempting to do outside of those two duties listed above are UNCONSTITUTIONAL.

  1. They were not delegated to it by the Constitution.
  2. Nor have the States granted to the Federal Government those authorities!!! (The Federal Government has assumed those duties without authorization by the States, and the States have been letting it get away with it to this day!)

Therefore, here’s my Budget Proposal for Congress: Eliminate everything except the DOD and get your noses, rules, regulations, and the IRS back out of our lives, where it doesn’t belong!!! You had the concept of taxes right in the beginning – sales taxes.

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What People Want Most: HELP!

Posted on February 7, 2013 | Leave a comment
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Is your friend confident that you can help?

So you’re chatting with someone who’s looking at your product or business, but they’re hemming and hawing and generally not wanting to come to a decision. You can ask what’s keeping them from saying “yes,” but they might not even be able to answer. And they probably can’t even put their finger on the real reason why. Because it’s one of those things they can feel in their gut, but can’t express in words.

I need help

They’re thinking, “Sure you’re Mr or Mrs Work-From-Home guru, you’re 10 feet tall and bullet-proof, you’re a professional. But I’ve never done anything like this before (or have been trying and failing for too many years already), so I don’t know if I can be successful. I don’t know if I can do what you do.”

And if that’s what’s in their mind, you’ve already lost the game.

Why?

Because, from the moment you said “hi,” they’ve been studying what you’ve been doing to see if it’s something they can do, too. From the initial interview, through the product or company introduction, through the followup interview, to the signup process, you have got to have demonstrated to them that “even a caveman can do it.”

Demonstrate tools

If you did the whole thing yourself, they’re thinking they’ve got to learn all that information, too. That’s a steep learning curve! Intimidating. Daunting. Seemingly insurmountable.

The easiest thing to do here is to use a live or recorded call or a video for the company/product explanation. At least show them the team training site.

Use 3-way calling

If you didn’t get someone else on the line at anytime during this process, they think they won’t have anyone to help answer questions, much less teach them how to do the activities. You have got to demonstrate that they have at least 2 other people (besides you!) to call on for help. They’ve got to know someone is available to answer questions (theirs and their prospect’s) at any time.

The best time to do this is during the followup. Right after the product/company intro, just say, “Hey, Suzie, hold on just a moment, I want to let you meet Bob, one of our business partners, so let me get him on the line.” Call Bob, let him know that you’re with Suzie and you want her to “meet” him. Now let him answer questions and handle the closing.

I can’t stress this enough… Even if you know all the answers, get someone else on the phone!

Lastly, reassure them!

After they’ve bought your product or opened an account with your company, reassure them. Give them homework; set up their next (training) appointment; give them the numbers for the team partners they can call for help (including yours); and (if you haven’t already) let them know that during the next appointment, you’ll be explaining all the tools at their disposal, the process, and action steps they must take to ensure their success.

At that point, it’s up to them to step up and do the work required. You can’t be responsible for that. But if Suzie knows what to do, and you’ve demonstrated how easy it is, she’ll be confident about you, the choice she just made, and her ability to succeed.

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