The Late, Great United States

"I place economy among the first and most important virtues, and public debt as the greatest of dangers to be feared. To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. If we run into such debts, we must be taxed in our meat and drink, in our necessities and in our comforts, in our labor and in our amusements. If we can prevent the government from wasting the labor of the people, under the pretense of caring for them, they will be happy." Thomas Jefferson.

"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." James Madison

"...man is not free unless government is limited. There's a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: As government expands, liberty contracts." Ronald Reagan

"Make yourself sheep, and the wolves will eat you." Ben Franklin

Even the French knew the score, "Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state lives at the expense of everyone." --French economist, statesman and author Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850)

So what does our Declaration of Independence tell us to do? "If there's something wrong, those who have the ability to take action have the responsibility to take action."

Over the top? Maybe, but I believe our government's actions are now over the top. This is not a conspiracy theory. What I am saying here are just the facts of the matter. You draw your own conclusions. Everyone knows, for and against, that we are quickly losing our American way of life. Our Constitutional Rights are being trampled, ignored, and usurped. Without these basic rights and liberties we can no longer stand as the Great United States of America that has always been the shining light, the pillar of strength, the leaning post for the rest of the world. We will no longer be free to dream and build and succeed in the way that made our country great in the first place. Are we ready and willing to stand by and watch America be overthrown, to watch her fall? Then what? Who will be there to save us from tyranny, communism, socialism and terrorism, if we are being ruled by tyranny, communism, socialism, and terrorism? Who will come to the aid of other countries being overthrown, starving and oppressed? Not the Great United States of America. The Great United States of America won’t exist anymore. We will be bankrupt; we will be the Late, Great United States of America. So are we really sure we want a bigger, more powerful, more demanding government? A President that thinks he is king, above the law, who tramples on the US Constitution that he swore to preserve, protect and defend; a corrupt Congress that thinks it has no obligation or responsibility to the American people, much less the Constitution? We probably won’t even have a congress before long, anyway, if the President continues to by pass congress and make all the laws himself. I know this all sounds crazy, radical and extreme, even unthinkable, but our Public Servants are extreme and radical. What they are doing is unthinkable.

What is my proof you ask? Let’s take a look; The government now controls: banks, mortgage servicers, auto manufacturers, student loans, the housing market, insurance companies, Fanny Mae financial services, Freddie Mac financial services, other financial service companies, investment fund companies, the postal service, Medicaid, Medicare, parks and public land, can dictate employer and employee wages, can print money to the point of collapse, can break up companies at will, can raise the US debt ceiling at will.

Link to list of bailout recipients: http://bailout.propublica.org/main/list/index

Link to US debt Clock: http://www.usdebtclock.org/

The Government will soon Control: (they are working on these now) the health care system, communications, the media and the internet, the energy industry, all US water sources, personal property of citizens, agriculture, the railway systems, including subway systems.

Some of the taxes on the way to hard working Americans: Allowing the 2001 and 2003 Tax Cuts to expire, War Tax, Tobacco Tax, National Energy Tax, Stock Tax, Securities Tax, Health Savings Account Tax, Health Insurance Tax, Business Health care Tax, Personal Health care Tax, Eliminating middle-class Making Work Pay tax credit, International Business Tax, Small Business Tax, Gas Tax, Mileage Tax, Payroll Tax, Reducing Personal Income Deductions, Cap & Trade (Tax and Regulate. “Energy costs will necessarily skyrocket”, President Obama) Copenhagen Global Warming Taxes (massive global energy taxes on your home, automobile, TV set, and everything else you consume, dictated by other countries that don’t even like us) these are on top of the taxes we already pay now.

And why are they in such a rush? Because they know their time is short! If we ran our homes and businesses this way, off to prison we would go! Come to think of it, didn’t Madoff just go to prison for the very same thing the government is doing right now?

Want more proof? OK. The government, including President Obama, does not want to seal the borders. Why? President Obama bows from the waist and bended knee to the King of Saudi Arabia, bows from the waist to the Emperor of Japan, barely nods at the Queen of England, declines a lunch invitation from the King of Norway, no bow. President Obama refuses to visit Christian churches at home and abroad even though he claims to be a Christian, but visits Mosques in the middle east. President Obama won’t speak in the presence of a cross or replica of the ten commandments unless they are covered. The President has an issue with wearing the American Flag lapel pin. He has been in DC almost a year now and still has not found a church to attend. President Obama has refused to hand over his blackberry; no one knows his blackberry contacts or contents. The terrorist detainees had already confessed and were ready to be executed when Attorney General, Eric Holder, decided to move them to New York City and give them Miranda rights. Why? Our military in Iraq and Afghanistan are now very restricted on how they can make contact with and proceed in raiding and capturing the enemy, i.e. announcing before raiding, may not proceed where civilians are present, etc. President Obama was raised as a young child in a Muslim school. President Obama has sealed his birth certificate and college records, no “we the people” access. The President of the United States, Barack Obama, spent nearly 20 years attending a church with a pastor that cursed America, white people, and the American free market system. The President associated with known, admitted terrorists, communists, and socialists. These people where his mentors and now some of his advisers. He wrote a book about his Muslim father that abandoned him as a child; no book about his mother or mother’s family that actually raised him. These things are unbelievable, and disgraceful from an American President.

The President and congress are not completely stupid. They know what they are doing is extremely irresponsible and will overwhelm the system; this explains why everything is done behind closed, locked doors. They even spend our money on themselves like they can just print some more. Oh, right, they can. By the way, our American free market system made everyone of them rich! Perhaps that is the point of it all. They get rich while making us poor. Spread the wealth.

Obama and his radical America haters want to crash the system so they can then declare a national crisis, martial law and overthrow America; without firing a shot. At that point forget about ever getting those people out of office, there just wouldn’t be any more elections. We will be done and done in. It will be too late. The world has a new dictator. (He "hopes")

If you believe in America, if you believe in the Constitution, stand up, speak up, and show up! Even Patrick Henry said, "The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave." Refuse to be ruled by corrupt, deceitful, lying, cheating, narcissistic, self satisfying, self indulging, fraudulent, inept, treasonous, hypocrites on both sides of the isle. Refuse to be ruled! We are a Republic. We the people rule. It is our land, our hard earned money they are plundering. The President, the Congress, and the Senate, all public servants work for us! Maybe it is about time we reminded them of that fact. Demand term limits and no pay raises for the public servants without a vote from the American people. Abolish the IRS. Clean house and put them on notice in the next election. How dare they overstep their bounds! How dare they try to force us to do their bidding for their sake! If we the people don’t stand up now, America will fall! The Great United States of America will be no more. It will be fundamentally transformed. It will collapse. God help us all the day that happens. Government isn’t the answer...Government is the problem! (Google Barney Frank) The People are the answer. And Since when do Americans just sit by and allow ANYONE to just overthrow our country without a fight? Never!

Our Founding Fathers warned us about the very thing that is happening right now. And who would know better than the people who founded and fought for this country. Maybe we really should listen to them before it is too late.

So I ask you again, what does our Declaration of Independence tell us to do? "If there's something wrong, those who have the ability to take action have the responsibility to take action."

God Bless America!

I believe the majority of Americans, on both sides of the debate, all want the same thing. Maybe some of us realize it and some don't yet, but there is a common thread; America to be America, the greatest nation on earth with freedom and justice for all.

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