What will be the breaking point in our country when our foundation of freedom completely breaks down?

A continuing shift is occurring in our country where a growing number of our citizens (at least the vocal ones along with those who vote - legally or not) appear to have no concern for freedom-limiting moves by our political leaders. Where talk of entertaining systems of socialism (progressivism) and Marxism (ultimately communism) are no longer considered freedom destroyers but 'equalizers'. How have we come so far in such a short time?

In most endeavors of life the 'party' stops when the money runs out (or when wisdom kicks in which seems to be rare!). With our federal government continuing to print the 'party' money at exponential speed, at what point do we spend the last available dollar? Or put another way, when does the federal leverage rubber band break? When that occurs our freedom, as we know it, will be severely tested.

For your ponderment:

When only a small number of 'elite' control all of the marbles, we the people will not be invited to join in the game. Control (power) begets more control and the more centralized control we allow the less freedom we shall all enjoy…until one day its gone!

Calvin Coolidge quote

Despite the improvements in the numbers, the U.S. labor market remains anemic.

We focus on the targeted cause of the great and continuing recession (the housing bust and financial crisis) but very few take the time to understand the whys of what happened....we don't dig deeper to get to the root of why we had such financial chaos that resulted in such a lengthy lingering effect. 

Power seeking, greed, avarice, selfishness, foolishness, shortsightedness, band aide fix mentality, entitlement focus, attempted social engineering based on faulty premises - here are a few of our favorite things that, starting with our elected 'leaders', have wrought our lingering effect that continues even today and based upon who we have become, will be with us tomorrow......

Our elected political 'leadership' will continue to tinker until they totally break it all! 

Over two hundred years of foundation based upon freedom and liberty broken into unrecognizable pieces! 

"This shows the depth of the recent employment recession — worse than any other post-war recession — and the relatively slow recovery due to the lingering effects of the housing bust and financial crisis."

THE SCARIEST JOBS CHART EVER The U.S. economy added 203,000 jobs in November, which was much stronger than the the 185,000 expected. The October number was revised modestly downward to 200,000 from an earlier estimate of 204,000. Adding to optimism this morning, the unemployment rate plunged to 7.0% from 7.3% last month. This improvement came as the labor force participation rate rose to 63.0% from 62.8%. Despite the improvements in the numbers, the U.S. labor market remains anemic.  Calculated Risk runs a chart every month that puts the current jobs recovery into perspective. "This graph shows the job losses from the start of the employment recession, in percentage terms, compared to previous post WWII recessions," writes Bill McBride of Calculated Risk. "The dotted line is ex-Census hiring. This shows the depth of the recent employment recession — worse than any other post-war recession — and the relatively slow recovery due to the lingering effects of the housing bust and financial crisis."

quote for the week

A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy.
Samuel Adams

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The status quo is as intellectually bankrupt as it is financially bankrupt. Our 'leadership' (??) cannot conceive of any course of action other than central bank credit creation and expanding state control of the economy and social benefits, paid for with money borrowed from future generations.

Intellectual, Moral and Financial bankruptcy all go hand in hand. There isn't just one storm gathering on the horizon--there are three, each adding force and fury to the other two.

Charles Hugh-Smith

dangerous freedom or peaceful slavery....which do you chose?

central government planning at its finest

central government planning at its finest......creating the chains of bondage through a growing entitlement mentality while devastating our future through gargantuan levels of debt.... 

Food Stamp Program Reform Needed

October 21, 2013

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), the food assistance program formerly known as food stamps, has become America's fastest growing social welfare program, says Michael D. Tanner, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute.

• As recently as 2000, just 17 million Americans participated in the program at a cost of less than $18 billion.
• Today, roughly 48 million Americans receive SNAP benefits, costing taxpayers more than $78 billion per year.
• Yet according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), nearly 18 million American households remain "food insecure."

This many households living in hunger has raised significant questions about whether the growth of SNAP has been justified and whether it successfully addresses hunger in America.

• The evidence suggests that much of the increase was due not to the economy but to deliberate policy choices by both federal and state governments, which loosened eligibility standards and actively sought new participants.
• At the same time, evidence that the expansion of SNAP has significantly reduced hunger or improved nutrition among low-income Americans is scant at best.

The time has come to reform the food stamp program by reducing its spending and enrollment and, ultimately, by returning responsibility for its operation to the states.

Source: Michael D. Tanner, "SNAP Failure: The Food Stamp Program Needs Reform," Cato Institute, October 16, 2013.

Too Much Government...

Central government planning is the growing leak in the dam that will continue to erode and eventually totally wash away our freedoms.

'The tragedy of our time is that most of the global political leaders have a narrow and short-term outlook, 

where they seek to maximize their own power at the expense of the governed...'

Too Much Government Causes Sluggish Economic Growth

October 21, 2013

The reasons for the global economic slowdown are not hard to understand and the solutions are obvious. The tragedy of our time is that most of the global political leaders have a narrow and short-term outlook, where they seek to maximize their own power at the expense of the governed. The solution to that problem is not so obvious, says Richard W. Rahn, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute.

• The International Monetary Fund announced recently that it expects world gross domestic product (GDP) growth to be only 2.9 percent this year.
• This is below the 3.2 percent in 2012, which was below the 30-year average of about 3.6 percent, and far below the one-of-the-best recent four-year periods, from 2004 to 2007, when it averaged 5.1 percent.

The differences may seem small, but the rate of GDP growth determines how quickly global poverty declines and real incomes rise.

• From the end of the recession in 2009, real economic growth in the United States has averaged less than 2 percent, which means that it will take around 35 years for real income to double.
• Contrast this performance with the last four years of President Clinton's administration and the four years under President Reagan after the end of the 1981-1982 recession, when growth averaged more than 4 percent per year.
• If those rates had been sustained, real incomes would have doubled in a mere 17 years.

Bigger government has not led to higher growth and more employment, as those of the left continue to preach. In fact, just the opposite has occurred, because all too much of government spending wastes resources and discourages productive economic activity.

Extreme environmental regulation in Europe has led to a sharp increase in energy prices, causing Europeans to pay two to three times as much for electricity as Americans. High energy prices have led to lower growth, more unemployment and virtually no environmental benefit.

The Obama administration, having learned nothing from the European experience, is pushing these same destructive environmental policies in the United States. The new financial regulations spewing from the United States and Europe have reduced cross-border investment, thus misallocating capital from its highest and best use. Most of these regulations have not even met elementary cost-benefit tests.

Source: Richard W. Rahn, "Government Waste Stifling Growth Worldwide," Washington Times, October 14, 2013.

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repeating life cycles....

This Failure Rate Will Shock You

by Simon Black of Sovereign Man blog,

On August 19th, 43 BC, 2056 years ago to the day, a twenty year old soldier born Gaius Octavius Thurinus assumed control of the most powerful civilization on the planet.

Standing in front of his Army that he had just marched into Rome, Gaius forced the Senate to ‘elect’ him to the highest political office in the land at the time.

And once in power, he never let go.

From August 19, 43 BC until his death (which coincidentally was also on August 19th) in 14 AD, Gaius deftly increased his authority until he wielded total control over Rome.

Of course, Gaius ultimately became known as Augustus, the first emperor of the Roman Empire. So one could argue this was the day the Republic ‘officially’ died and was replaced with a succession of incompetent megalomaniacs.

This includes an infamous cast of characters, from the morally depraved Caligula to the certifiably insane Nero, to the tax-mongering Vespasian, to the oppressive tyrant Domitian.

This trend continued for hundreds of years. Tyranny. Oppression. Overspending. Hyperinflation. Civil war. External war. Debilitating taxes. Punitive regulations. And a terminal decline in people’s freedom and standard of living.

This is such a familiar story. Empires throughout history have always gone through this life cycle of rise, peak, decline, and collapse. Rome. Egypt. The Habsburg Empire. The Ottoman Empire.

And the salient points are almost always the same– out of control government spending, a rapidly debased currency, costly foreign military campaigns, burdensome regulations, etc.

More importantly, in almost every instance, there’s always been a tiny elite who thinks they should control the entire system.

Yet history is very clear: societies that organize themselves in this way suffer a 100% failure rate, without exception.

Curiously, these same mistakes are repeated over and over again.

There’s always a new elite showering themselves with unchecked dictatorial powers– from control of the money supply to control of the military.

For example, four men control over 70% of the world’s money supply in our modern central banking system. They have the power to conjure unlimited quantities of currency out of thin air in their sole discretion.

Meanwhile, the “richest” countries in the world (US, Europe, Japan, etc.) are so deeply in debt that they have to borrow money just to pay interest on the money they’ve already borrowed.

This isn’t rocket science. Predicting the end of this system is not attention-seeking sensationalism; it’s just common sense.

During the housing boom just a few years ago, everyone thought that home prices would go up forever.

Then suddenly it all crashed. And afterwards, everyone said, “Duh, it doesn’t make sense to loan millions of dollars to dead people.”

This too will seem obvious in hindsight.

And even the staunchest advocates of the system (like Paul Krugman) will look back and say, “Sure, I knew that would happen. Obviously you can’t spend and print that kind of money without consequence.”

Meanwhile, the controlling elite will keep careening towards its historical destiny.

That’s because today’s system shares similar fundamentals as nearly every other case of failed empire. And it’s foolish to think that this time will be any different.

Something to think about:

• From bondage to spiritual faith;
• From spiritual faith to great courage;
• From courage to liberty;
• From liberty to abundance;
• From abundance to selfishness;
• From selfishness to complacency;
• From complacency to apathy;
• From apathy to dependence;
• From dependence back into bondage.
• Rinse and repeat throughout history

source unknown

for ponderment

ah yes....the road to serfdom is a path that is broad, having many contrivances and diversions from the truth, with many a politician's welfare depending upon it! 

Yet in the end everything will be tainted and we shall all feel the angst of our country's demise that has been instituted against us by the complete lack of wisdom of those whom we used to esteem as servants of the people but who now are merely career politicians concerned only for their own skin...and their personal fortune making of course.... 

A Simple Choice

Politicians do not want to discuss the economic problem in simple terms. They are the biggest beneficiaries of the welfare state which feeds their egos, desire for power and as a means to buy votes to retain office.

The golden goose upon which the horde of political parasites  feeds is not immune. It grows ever weaker and unproductive as a result of the predations. A decision must be made between two options: the Welfare State or the Prosperous State. There is no third way. The choice is to continue down this road to serfdom or to make a U-turn back toward prosperity.

Advanced stages of the welfare state will lead to its eventual demise. History is replete with governments that extended themselves beyond what their populations were willing or able to support. That is the point the US has reached. The so-called economic crisis did not begin in 2009 or even 2001. These were symptoms of the disorder and maladjustments that had been introduced into the economy years before.

We can continue down the current road and never see a return to economic vitality that was experienced only a few decades ago. Poverty, jobless and continued declines in the standard of living will increase. Ultimately the economy will collapse under its own weight or civil unrest will bring it down.

Or we can repeal much of the nonsense that has contributed to this problem and return  to the vitality, growth and rising incomes that characterized most of our history. That requires a massive reduction in government’s role in the economy and its spending.

These are the only choices that affect our destination. All other considerations are mere distractions and excuses. It is just that simple!

These comments are as relevant for the welfare states in Europe as they are the US.

What Happens Next

The choice above will likely not be addressed until an economic tragedy renders our economy dysfunctional.

Before that occurs, a collapse of financial asset prices (stocks and bonds) is a probable next event. The timing of such a collapse is not reasonably predictable, but current asset price levels reflect Fed-created smoke and mirrors liquidity. This reinflated bubble will collapse just as the now deflating housing bubble has. What is certain is that something as irrelevant as rising interest rates will be blamed.

Without rollbacks in confiscations of wealth, harmful policies and the removal of perverse incentives, this country must continue to decline.

Detroitification

For lack of a better term, the process the entire country is headed for is “Detroitification.” The term represents a declining if not dying economy. Higher interest rates, “slow growth,” lack of innovation, worldwide slowdown or many other variables will be used to rationalize what is coming. The tragedy results from one cause and one only — the idiocy of our federal government and its greed.

At this stage, the damage is done and cannot be undone quickly enough to avoid this crisis. Even if there were time, there is no way that politicians would willingly address the problem.

Via Monty Pelerin's World blog

say it like it is.....

and we have allowed it to happen....

Whether it takes the form of greed, arrogance, lack of wisdom, avarice, laziness, disobedience, hate, an anti-liberty agenda, the unquenchable drive for power and control or a host of other abominations the majority has allowed a minority to take the reigns.....it starts in the home, moves to the schools and ultimately infiltrates all of public and private life. 

We have surrendered our liberty and freedom for what we believe is security and in the end we shall have neither!

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a quote to ponder

are we there yet!

how far we have fallen....

Appears as if this is what our country has become -

Land of the entitled and home of the inane

July 4th...

July 4, 2013

We speak of liberty and freedom with our lips

Yet with our minds and our hearts we devise plans of bondage and control;

We say that we honor the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness

Yet these ideals are neglected by a people overcome with complacency and usurped by a leadership obsessed with arrogance;

Years of sacrifice and shed blood are forsaken for a fleeting moment of appeasement;

Our present path is leading us to a place of desolation and indenture

Where they speak of liberty and freedom but little is found;

Let us awaken fully from our slumber

Arise, O We the People, that a turning may begin

May we restore that which is precious and rebuke that which is worthless

Stand boldly for liberty

Stand bravely for freedom

The Declaration of Independence

IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed...

And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.

how far we have come...

"It's true, we have a two-party system in America: The Evil Party, and the Stupid Party. And every once and a while the Evil Party and the Stupid Party get together to pass something really evil and stupid. That's called 'bipartisanship.'"

Steven Hayward explaining immigration reform

Something to ponder....

Are we beginning to experience the effects of the worst case scenario for our country OR do we still time to stop the onslaught of madness that is destroying our freedom and liberties? 

Don't look to Washington for the answers (they have created the problems - for power corrupts and we can vividly see this in our day)....it must be WE THE PEOPLE!

Why Things Will Get Worse - Much Worse

 Monty Pelerin's World blog,

It is easy to be upset about what is happening all around. The economy is being destroyed, deliberately, by insane economic policies. Incentives to work are being eliminated by punishing work. At the same time rewards are increasing for not working. Not surprisingly we get less of what we penalize (work) and more of what we subsidize (non-work).

As an economist I get sick over what I see happening to what was once a great engine of productivity, capital creation and improvements in standards of living.

After two centuries of progress that amazed the world, the conditions necessary for growth and productivity are steadily being removed. Their presence allowed the miracle of America. Their absence guarantees the decline. Carried to extreme, the US could become a second or third-world nation within a few decades. Virtually all changes in the last five to ten years point in this direction and these changes are accelerating.

As pained as the economic retrogression is, the loss of freedom is even more disturbing. It was free markets and free men that made America the dominant economic power and the beacon of freedom. Without freedom, no economic policy can succeed. Yet, just as economic policies seem designed to destroy rather than create, so too does the role of government as steadily destroys freedom with its expanded oppression and power. The absence of freedom is tyranny. The absence of freedom is also poverty.

Economic decline is difficult to convey, although data are useful.

The decline of liberty, however, is not easily quantifiable and even more difficult to communicate. An email from Simon Black, expresses his concern regarding Leviathan government and its increasing oppression. It provides as good a qualitative measure of what is occurring to freedom in this country:

By now it should be clear to anyone paying attention that most of Western civilization is on a dangerous slide into tyranny.

They’re confiscating funds directly from people’s bank accounts. They’re seizing reporters’ personal records and phone logs. They’re digitally spying on everyone’s emails.

They’ve authorized military detention and drone assassination of their own citizens.

They’re using tax offices to harass political opposition groups.

They tell us what we are allowed to eat and drink, what foods we are allowed to put in our own body.

Think about it. These are Soviet tactics, plain and simple.

What’s more, they don’t even care. They think we’re all idiots who are too stupid to even notice what they’re doing.

In fact, just a few days ago, Barack Obama staunchly defended his policies, saying “you can complain about Big Brother. . . but when you actually look at the details, then I think we’ve struck the right balance.” This is textbook sociopathic behavior: destructive, antisocial conduct and a complete lack of conscience.

Unfortunately this is just the beginning.

Imagine what it will look like in a few more years: trillions of dollars of more debt… more printed currency. More police state tactics. More invasions of privacy. More ridiculous regulations.

Unless government oppression is beaten back, there is no hope for the future. For those who focus on the foolish economic policies, they miss the root cause of all of our problems — oversized, overactive, interventionist, overcontrolling and oppressive government. Unless government can be reduced in size and power dramatically and then put back into its Constitutional box, nothing will improve in the economy. Ultimately the economy will collapse and freedom will be lost.

History shows no examples reversing these kinds of trends. Civilizations die as a result and then they rebuild from the ashes. But history never knew the flowering of such a vibrant civilization before our break from King George. It seems as though a similar miracle is required today.

I fear the majority of the American people are too dumbed down to understand what is happening to them and their country. They appear too content collecting whatever benefits the government buys them off with. These benefits will cease when the economy can no longer be pillaged. By then, it will likely be too late.

America will continue to exist and it will eventually be free and prosperous again. But there will be a long period, call it the modern-day  Dark Ages, before freedom and prosperity return. A century or so seems a reasonable guess. Evil will eventually be overcome, but not before generations suffer as a result of our allowing and enabling the growth in government power.

"A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy." 

Samuel Adams

And The Band Played On...

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-05-22/and-band-played

by Jim Quinn of The Burning Platform blog

Excerpt:

“Don’t think you can escape the Fourth Turning the way you might today distance yourself from news, national politics, or even taxes you don’t feel like paying. History warns that a Crisis will reshape the basic social and economic environment that you now take for granted. The Fourth Turning necessitates the death and rebirth of the social order. It is the ultimate rite of passage for an entire people, requiring a luminal state of sheer chaos whose nature and duration no one can predict in advance. The risk of catastrophe will be very high. The nation could erupt into insurrection or civil violence, crack up geographically, or succumb to authoritarian rule. If there is a war, it is likely to be one of maximum risk and effort – in other words, a total war. Every Fourth Turning has registered an upward ratchet in the technology of destruction, and in mankind’s willingness to use it.” – Strauss & Howe - The Fourth Turning

Our country has entered a period of Crisis.

We may or may not successfully navigate our way through the visible icebergs and more dangerous icebergs just below the surface. The similarities between the course of our country and the maiden voyage of the Titanic are eerily allegorical.

The owners of the ship (Wall Street, Washington politicians, crony capitalists) are arrogant and reckless. They declare the ship unsinkable, while only providing half the lifeboats needed to save all the passengers in case of disaster in order to maximize their profits. The captain (Ben Bernanke) has been tendered the greatest cruise liner (United States) in history. The initial voyage across the Atlantic Ocean has drawn the financial elite ruling class (financers & bankers) onboard, occupying the luxurious state rooms on the upper decks. But, the lower decks are filled with young poor peasants (Millennials) who are sneered at and ridiculed by those in the upper decks. A maiden voyage should always be approached cautiously. A prudent captain would not take undue risks.

Our captain (Ben Bernanke) wants to make his mark on history. He considers himself an expert in navigating dangerous waters (Great Depression) because he studied dangerous waters at his Ivy League school. It doesn’t matter that he never actually captained a ship in the real world.  He declares full steam ahead (reducing interest rates to 0% and throwing vast amounts of fiat currency into the engine room boilers). Midway through the voyage, the captain is handed a telegram warning of icebergs (potential financial catastrophe) ahead. If he slows down the vessel, he will not set the speed record and receive the accolades of an adoring public. He ignores the warning and steams on to his rendezvous (eternal disgrace) with destiny.

In the middle of the night, the lookouts (Ron Paul, John Hussman, Zero Hedge) cry iceberg!! But, it is too late. The great ship (United States) has struck an enormous iceberg (debt & currency crisis). At first, it seems like everything will be OK. The captain and crew assure the passengers that everything is under control and their evasive action has saved the ship. But below the waterline, the great ship (United States) is taking on water (toxic levels of debt, un-payable entitlement promises, trillion dollar deficits, political & financial corruption). The engine room (Federal Reserve) works frantically to alleviate the damage (QE to infinity). The captain is sure the compartmentalization of the ship will save it. One of the designers of the ship (David Stockman) sadly declares that the ship will surely sink. The captain orders the band (CNBC, Fox, MSNBC, CNN) on deck to distract the passengers from their impending fate with soothing music. The owners of the ship (Wall Street, Washington politicians, crony capitalists) aren’t worried. They collected their fees upfront and over-insured the vessel. They anticipate a windfall when the ship sinks. It worked last time.

To avoid mass panic, the crew (government apparatchiks) has locked the youthful poor peasants (Millennials) below deck. The captain and his crew are content to let them go down with the ship. They’ve decided the women, children, and senior citizens (Middle Class) can also be sacrificed. The financial elite ruling class (financers and bankers) are piling into the boats with the ship’s jewels, escaping the fate of the peasants. The captain (Ben Bernanke) has no intention of going down with the ship. In a cowardly act, he leaps onto the 1st lifeboat to be launched. We are on a voyage of the damned. The great cruise liner (United States) has a fatal wound and is headed for a watery grave. Are we going to let the owners, captain and crew dictate who will be saved in the few lifeboats or will we rise up and throw these guilty parties overboard?

 

It comes down to the abuse of power by a few evil men and their henchmen as they have centralized their control over our financial, political, economic and social institutions. The existing social order is an ancient, rotting, fetid swamp of parasites that will be drained during this Fourth Turning. The Millennials are rising and will be the spearhead of the coming revolution. As each day passes they will become a more powerful force and the power of the existing regime will wane. Meanwhile, the band will play on as the ship of state descends into the abyss.

The IRS’s Job Is To Violate Our Liberties

more intrusive government is not the answer to any of our problems...as Reagan stated 'government is the problem'.....so, how do we regain our freedom and restore our republic?

From Ron Paul

The IRS’s Job Is To Violate Our Liberties

“What do you expect when you target the President?” This is what an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) agent allegedly said to the head of a conservative organization that was being audited after calling for the impeachment of then-President Clinton. Recent revelations that IRS agents gave “special scrutiny” to organizations opposed to the current administration’s policies suggest that many in the IRS still believe harassing the President’s opponents is part of their job.

As troubling as these recent reports are, it would be a grave mistake to think that IRS harassment of opponents of the incumbent President is a modern, or a partisan, phenomenon. As scholar Burton Folsom pointed out in his book New Deal or Raw Deal, IRS agents in the 1930s where essentially “hit squads” against opponents of the New Deal. It is well-known that the administrations of John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson used the IRS to silence their critics. One of the articles of impeachment drawn up against Richard Nixon dealt with his use of the IRS to harass his political enemies. Allegations of IRS abuses were common during the Clinton administration, and just this week some of the current administration’s defenders recalled that antiwar and progressive groups alleged harassment by the IRS during the Bush presidency.

The bipartisan tradition of using the IRS as a tool to harass political opponents suggests that the problem is deeper than just a few “rogue” IRS agents—or even corruption within one, two, three or many administrations. Instead, the problem lays in the extraordinary power the tax system grants the IRS.

The IRS routinely obtains information about how we earn a living, what investments we make, what we spend on ourselves and our families, and even what charitable and religious organizations we support. Starting next year, the IRS will be collecting personally identifiable health insurance information in order to ensure we are complying with Obamacare’s mandates.

The current tax laws even give the IRS power to marginalize any educational, political, or even religious organizations whose goals, beliefs, and values are not favored by the current regime by denying those organizations “tax-free” status. This is the root of the latest scandal involving the IRS.

Considering the type of power the IRS excises over the American people, and the propensity of those who hold power to violate liberty, it is surprising we do not hear about more cases of politically-motivated IRS harassment. As the first US Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall said, “The power to tax is the power to destroy” — and who better to destroy than one’s political enemies?

The US flourished for over 120 years without an income tax, and our liberty and prosperity will only benefit from getting rid of the current tax system. The federal government will get along just fine without its immoral claim on the fruits of our labor, particularly if the elimination of federal income taxes are accompanied by serious reduction in all areas of spending, starting with the military spending beloved by so many who claim to be opponents of high taxes and big government.

While it is important for Congress to investigate the most recent scandal and ensure all involved are held accountable, we cannot pretend that the problem is a few bad actors.The very purpose of the IRS is to transfer wealth from one group to another while violating our liberties in the process, thus the only way Congress can protect our freedoms is to repeal the income tax and shutter the doors of the IRS once and for all.

May freedom once again flourish in our country

May this be the start of a renaissance of the love and thirst for freedom in our country.... 

Behold the Freedom Tower's Finishing Touch

word for the week

The word for the week: dysfunctionality  

The inability to think beyond today while making decisions that will have unintended negative consequences tomorrow yet believing that all is well and we are on the right path.

Dsyfunctionality reaches into all facets of today’s life and it’s effects are felt throughout our country….

how numbered are our days?

Boy has this been turned around....the congress, courts and executive office ALL believe they are our masters and know better than anyone (we the people) what we need, want, should have, and even what we should think, say and even do....no matter what the constitutions says.

We have come along way....

How do we get back to a government that serves the people not one that demands servants?

more Roman wisdom....

when in Rome.....

plain and simple.....

What gives the federal government the right to do most of the stuff that it does?

Certainly not our constitution.