How To Drive People Away

Hm, I realize I'm having a good deal of "how to" posts recently...

Well, here's another. I have to scratch my head and wonder the motives behind such stupidity. Are these people stupid, or smarter than we are?

Tax Town USA: NY's Staggering New Budget Unveiled

Proposed $131.8B Tax-And-Spend Plan Has Critics Howling; Average Family Of 4 May Be Shelling Out $5,000 Additional

Get ready to pay up.

The budget crisis in New York is so dire lawmakers are planning tax hikes on some of life's necessities, as well as some simple pleasures.

From bottled water, to beer, cigars and electricity, the cost could be going up for all of these and more.

Governor David Paterson said the new state budget is shared sacrifice, but its a tough sell.

If you live in New York City and suburbs there is only one thing you can do in reaction to the new state budget – gasp.

"This is not a happy budget," Senate Majority Leader Malcolm Smith, D-Queens, said.

No kidding. Critics said there are so many taxes and fee hikes the average family of four in our area can expect to shell out an additional $5,000 -- for now.

"I would like to tell you that this budget brings to an end our fiscal crisis, but I can't do that. That would be intellectually dishonest," Paterson said.

The budget puts an added income tax on households earning over $300,000 to raise $4 billion.

New York politicians seem hell-bent on pulling out the rugs from beneath us. What do they really want from New York? If Paterson was truly, truly serious about wanting to make ends meet in this state, he'd fire a good 35% of the adiminstrative bureaucrats that clog the state payroll, slash and burn the billions spent on pensions for retired state workers, and lower taxes to draw people to the state. But that's not even an option.

Ya gotta wonder, why not?

How To Tell If You're a Spineless Sap Willing to Crouch Down and Lick the Tyrants' Hands That Feed You

If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.
Samuel Adams

This quote by Samuel Adams, one of America's greatest men, is coming in very handy this week. I refer to my posts about the news reports of another new document for law enforcement officials: How To Profile a Domestic Terrorist.

In the spirit of wise old Sam, I've decided to come up with my OWN profiling document. Feel free to pass it along, particularly to law enforcement officials.

How To Tell If You're a Spineless Sap Willing to Crouch Down and Lick the Tyrants' Hands That Feed You

• Do you believe that "the American people" are a bunch of panicky whiners, ready to riot the moment catastrophe (or presumed catastrophe) strikes?
• Do you believe that the government schools can do a better job of raising and educating children than the children's parents?
• Do you believe in Darwinian evolution?
• Do you believe that Christians are narrow-minded bigots?
• Do you believe that the Constitution is a "living, breathing" document and that its interpretation should not be based on original intent?
• Do you believe that humankind has progressed since those dusty old days of the 1700s?
• Are you in favor of aborting innocent life but are not in favor of capital punishment for criminals?
• Do you believe the New York Times' claim that they publish "All the news that's fit to print"?
• Are you in favor of the Fairness Doctrine?
• Have you ever listened and stayed awake during an Al Franken or Randi Rhodes radio broadcast?
• Have you ever supported the Socialist Workers, Green, or Working Party parties?
• Did you or do you believe that when Obama says "change," he means it, whatever "change" means?
• Do you believe in gun control?
• Do you believe the official government reports on the JFK assassination, Waco, or 9/11?
• Do you believe the U.S. should not enforce its immigration laws?
• Do you believe the government should enforce a policy of volunteer community service?
• Do you believe in pre-K, Head Start, or infant education?
• Are you willing to be "chipped" with the RFID, for your own safety?
• Are you willing to give up liberty for material gain and/or safety?
• Do you think you are better informed and more intelligent than the "average" American?
• Do you believe that the U.S. government meant well with bailing out the financial sector and banks; that they just blundered the job?
• Do you think that people who are conspiracy nuts should get psychiatric evaluation?
• Do you think that recycling and saving the rainforests makes you a better human being?
• Do you consider yourself a citizen of the world?
• Are you depressed most of the time?

Hope this helps. Profiling based on thoughts, behavior, and religious and political affinity is very helpful-- after all, the government says so.

[This post probably will incur the guillotine for me in the U.S. Concentration Camp Facility].

Founding Father's Quote Friday is hosted at Meet the Founders blog

ReLOVEution

"Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us. We cannot endure the infamy and guilt of resigning succeeding generations to that wretchedness which inevitably awaits them if we basely entail hereditary bondage on them."

--Thomas Jefferson, Declaration of the Causes and Necessities of Taking up Arms, 6 July 1775

I am against revolution-- a violent warlike revolution. It will not precipitate any good change in our country. Our society is too secularized, too humanistic. A revolution with such a barbaric society would bring a lot of destruction and no good thing would come of it. See the French Revolution for an example of a debauched, class warfare, which is what we would have should we listen to the cries for revolution in this country.

Moreover, I believe that the powers-that-be would love a violent revolution. It's expected. They are even encouraging it. Look at the massive, purposeful devaluation of the American currency. They realize that economic collapse would bring rioting and social unrest. Why else are the military and law enforcement preparing for civil unrest and domestic terrorism? With the planned chaos that will ensue, there will be need for swift and violent retribution and arbitrary law.

Humanism, with its lack of any final base for values or law, always leads to chaos. It then naturally leads to some form of authoritarianism to control the chaos.

--Francis A. Schaeffer, A Christian Manifesto

It is not anarchy nor revolution that will save us. It is Christ who will save us.

Oh, now I realize that I have a large number of "educated" professional people who read this blog. Many believe that Christ was a fairy tale, is a crutch, was a good teacher but not God's own Son, etc. How great is your faith, unbeliever! What evidence do you have, beyond your own impressions, emotional reactions, and opinions of others, to back up your disbelief? Have you weighed the evidence for yourself? Perhaps you say that you have no time; what could be more important that seeking the truth about the matter? Wouldn't something like this have more importance to your entire life than that luncheon date or overtime at work? I've spent many years in intense research and study, and have come to the conclusion that Jesus of Nazareth is the Christ, and that the Bible is an accurate book. I strongly encourage you to seek it out and see for yourself.

I have examined carefully the evidence of the Christian religion;and, if I was sitting as juror upon its authenticity, I should unhestitatingly give my verdict in its favor. I have studied it, and I can prove its truth as clearly as any proposition ever submitted to the mind of man.

~- Alexander Hamilton, History of the Republic of the United States, as Traced in the Writings of Alexander Hamilton and His Contemporaries, by J. C. Hamilton, volume 7, page 790.

The answer is not revolution. The answer is revival. It has always been revival.

What do we mean by the American Revolution? Do we mean the American war? The Revolution was effected before the war commenced. The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people; a change in their religious sentiments, of their duties and obligations... This radical change in the principles, opinions, sentiments, and affections of the people was the real American Revolution.

--John Adams, letter to H. Niles, 1818.

Before the American Revolution, there was what we now call the "Great Awakening," a time when the American colonies experienced a revived interest in seeking God and obeying His precepts. This is the "radical change" to which Adams refers, as he and his ancestors were located in its epicenter: Massachusetts.

I therefore issue a call to liberty-loving Americans: there can be no redemption of our liberties and our country through means of force. We need to experience and spread a radical change in our hearts and minds, a change in principles, opinions, sentiments, and affections.

A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings forth evil. For out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.... But those things which proceed out of the mouth come from the heart, and they defile a man. For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies.

--Jesus of Nazareth, Luke 6, Matthew 15

Truly, these times of ignorance God overlooked but now commands all men everywhere to repent, because He has appointed a day on which He will judge the world in righteousness by the Man whom He has ordained. He has given assurance of this to all by raising Him from the dead.

--Paul of Tarsus, to the Athenians, Acts 17

You Know You're a Domestic Terrorist If...

Following up on my post about something I heard on the Glenn Beck radio show, I dug a little deeper to locate this MAIC document so many are discussing. Well this is from the horse's mouth:

What is MIAC and why it is needed?

Missouri Information Analysis Center (MIAC) provides a public safety partnership consisting of local, state and federal agencies, as well as the public sector and private entities that will collect, evaluate, analyze, and disseminate information and intelligence to the agencies tasked with Homeland Security responsibilities in a timely, effective, and secure manner.

MIAC is the mechanism to collect incident reports of suspicious activities to be evaluated and analyzed in an effort to identify potential trends or patterns of terrorist or criminal operations within the Missouri area. MIAC will also function as a vehicle for two-way communication between federal, state and local law enforcement community within our region.

New challenges demanding vigilance

With the cooperation of the law enforcement community, MIAC will disseminate threat related intelligence from a single point for the purpose of creating a heightened situational awareness to law enforcement agencies and public entities charged with protecting our community.

The MAIC has published and unclassified a document for circulation, informing, uh, leaders, of the threat certain individuals are to the U.S.S.A. and bankers worldwide.

What kind of individuals? Allow me to run over a few of the profiling points, and see if you qualify:

• Have you ever published anti-government literature?


• Are you in favor of property rights, and defending property rights?


• Are you a Christian?


• Are you in favor of gun rights?


• Do you consider yourself a Defender of the U.S. Constitution or made numerous references to the US Constitution??


• Have you ever hung the U.S. flag upside down, or owned or displayed the "Don't Tread On Me" flag?


• Do you homeschool?


• Do you believe in a global dictatorship called the New World Order which conspires to exploit the working class citizen?


• Do you believe in or are you against the North American Union?


• Are you in favor of the U.S. enforcing its immigration laws and guarding the border?


• Have you ever supported the Libertarian, Constitution parties, or the Campaign for Liberty group?


• Do you oppose the IRS, Federal Reserve Bank, or high taxes?


• Have you ever refused to identify yourself, especially to government officials?


• Have you ever been seen in public doing community service work?


• Are you influencing government or social policy?


• Do you fear President Obama will enact firearm confiscations?

and more....

I found that Alex Jones has the entire document scanned, here. I really don't care what your bigotry is about Alex Jones, or Glenn Beck, or Ron Paul, or whoever. Hold your Ku Klux Klan hoodies and take a look at the document, would you?

The MIAC report does not concentrate on Muslim terrorists, but rather on the so-called “militia movement” and conflates it with supporters of Ron Paul, Chuck Baldwin, Bob Barr, the so-called patriot movement and other political activist organizations opposed to the North American Union and the New World Order. The MIAC document is a classic guilt by association effort designed to demonize legitimate political activity that stands in opposition to the New World Order and its newly enshrined front man, Barack Obama.

In September of 2008, Missouri sheriffs and prosecutors organized truth squads to intimidate people opposed to Obama and threatened to arrest and prosecute anybody who ran “misleading television ads.” Missouri governor Matt Blunt eventually denounced the use of “police state tactics” on the part of the Obama-Biden campaign.

... "truth squads"?

While I understand that pointing out hypocrisy and lies of the liberals is pointless, because these people have no basis for truth anyway (so hypocrisy and lying goes without saying for these people), it is still a shock to the sensibilities to see liberals decrying Nazi tactics of GW Bush on January 19, and hailing Obama's Nazi tactics as "change" on January 20th.

And this isn't just far-off Missourim either. Virginia has such a list, so does Texas, New York (the Northeast even has troops in place), and others. Police and military are being informed about how to resist and control YOU, the informed American, against participating in OUR own government.

Here's the clip with Glenn Beck. He does a great job making this entertaining.



This is so important that not even Rush Limbaugh can ignore it:




[This post will incur 12.18 more years for me in the U.S. Concentration Camp Facility].

FFQF: Doing Something

Government can do something for the people only in proportion as it can do something to the people.   -Thomas Jefferson

I don't think I really need to elaborate very much on how this quotation from Jefferson is very relevant to our state of the nation, re: the "bailout" scandal, the AiG bonuses scandal, etc etc. Unfortunately, this kind of governmental attitude and action has become status quo. It would certainly be more newsworthy to hear of something the government is NOT doing, wouldn't it? Must the government always come on the scene, and strong-arm a "solution"?

Things are rapidly deteriorating into a mob-rule by the powers-that-be. For example, this AiG bonus fiasco: how can the government justifiably create a direct tax on those employees who received federal monies (notice that I do not call it "taxpayer monies," for it is not; the monies are a gift from the Federal Reserve Bank, which owns the government)? Wasn't it Congress that passed the bailout bill? Didn't they rush through the process, refusing to read the bill? And didn't Senator Chris Dodd twist the bill's wording so as to declude those who received bonus money? Why all this outrage, why al this pretense that government "cares" about what is "fair"?

What is left of our government, yea, our economic system? We Americans are left with advice to "shop" as a means of showing patriotism, exacerbating the inflation problem and leaving us penniless with only credit report services as a tool for future innovation and industry.

I won't rant on and on as I desire to do; so many are ranting more excellently and eloquently than I possibly can. But it is extremely evident that the government is encouraging our nation's demise. And then what will we have? A government by the bankers, for the bankers, of the bankers.

Founding Father's Quote Friday is hosted at Meet the Founders blog

So Are You a Domestic Terrorist?

Believe me, the government has a list. Checking it twice. Going to find out who's naughty or nice. 

Glenn Beck had an amusing segment of his show devoted to a make-believe interview, where he asks an invisible person about the qualifications of being labeled a domestic terrorist. I've heard of such things on such a list. Some items include:

1. Publishing any "anti-government" (whatever that is) opinions and news.

2. Voting for any third-party candidate except for the Socialist and Green Parties (they are OK).

3. Forwarding any emails of "anti-government" sentiment, in cartoon or text form.

4. Quoting the Constitution and/or Declaration of Independence.

5. Homeschooling your children.

6. Voting "no" on any public school budget.

7. Web surfing habits with visits to "conspiracy" sites such as Alex Jones, Glenn Beck, and 9/11 sites (Rush Limbaugh and Al Franken are OK).

8. Viewing any Aaron Russo viral video or film.

9. Quoting America's founding fathers as if our government leaders are not like them.

The funny thing about Beck's make-believe interview segment is that it isn't terribly make-believe at all. It's why the SWAT Team violently and swiftly raids a family farm because Mr. Farmer doesn't have a government-issued food and health permit for the selling of co-op bulk foods to his friends. You see, Mr. Farmer has been surveilled for years.

He's a...

...a...

Constitutionalist!

That word strikes morbid fear into government entities. So if you even think you are a Constitutionalist, you're on that list. And it's why the feds are building labor camps for all these domestic terrorists. [This post alone will incur 7.54 more years for me in the U.S. Concentration Camp Facility].

See you at the flagpole.

A government big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough to take away everything you have. Thomas Jefferson

AIG's Most Famous Bonus Receiver

Well, how odd, I didn't see this in the network news. Amidst all the hype about the AIG bailout money going for contractual bonuses to people, no one said anything about the most famous person who got a bonus.

Barack Obama.

Oh yes. Didn't you know? Didn't you hear that on ABC?

Senator Barack Obama received a $101,332 bonus from American International Group in the form of political contributions according to Opensecrets.org. The two biggest Congressional recipients of bonuses from the A.I.G. are - Senators Chris Dodd and Senator Barack Obama.

The A.I.G. Financial Products affiliate of A.I.G. gave out $136,928, the most of any AIG affiliate, in the 2008 cycle. I would note that A.I.G.’s financial products division is the unit that wrote trillions of dollars’ worth of credit-default swaps and "misjudged" the risk.

I'm not defending AIG. And I'm certainly not defending our completely corrupt government and its completely tyrannical governmental system.

What I am defending is the truth. That truth that seems to matter less and less to Americans with their "a chicken in every pot!" mentality, and does not matter AT ALL to any else.

[this post will cost me 1.34 extra years of hard labor in the U.S. Concentration Camp Facility]*

*details to come

Speechless Wednesday: The Debt Star

Bush is just as much to blame, even more than Obama as yet. But this makes a good point.

FFQF: We Surround Them!

"If ever time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin." Samuel Adams

"If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen." Samuel Adams

"It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds." Samuel Adams

I've discovered an impressive radio show, The Glenn Beck Show. I don't have a great deal of opportunity to extensively listen to him in the morning, but I've been making it a point to tune him in before my day starts. It's an outstanding show. Beck spends a good deal of time defending the solid principles that formed our country and made it great. I've been to his website to see his 9 Principles, 12 Values list. Oustanding!

1. America is good.

2. I believe in God and He is the Center of my Life.

3. I must always try to be a more honest person than I was yesterday.

4. The family is sacred. My spouse and I are the ultimate authority, not the government.

5. If you break the law you pay the penalty. Justice is blind and no one is above it.

6. I have a right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness, but there is no guarantee of equal results.

7. I work hard for what I have and I will share it with who I want to. Government cannot force me to be charitable.

8. It is not un-American for me to disagree with authority or to share my personal opinion.

9. The government works for me. I do not answer to them, they answer to me.

12 Values
Honesty
Reverence
Hope
Thrift
Humility
Charity
Sincerity
Moderation
Hard Work
Courage
Personal Responsibility
Gratitude

I am extremely gratified and encouraged. I am tying this in with the Favorite Founding Fathers' Quote Friday because everything in the 9 Principles, 12 Values is a great deal like the Friends of Liberty Precepts, and everything like what the Founding Fathers told us about their intent and purpose. I recommend that you investigate the Beck website and his show. And perhaps get a t-shirt or two.

Founding Father's Quote Friday is hosted at Meet the Founders blog

They Can Audit You, But You Can't Audit Them

Congressman Ron Paul is leading a brigade to force an audit of the Federal Reserve.

I rise to introduce the Federal Reserve Transparency Act. Throughout its nearly 100-year history, the Federal Reserve has presided over the near-complete destruction of the United States dollar. Since 1913 the dollar has lost over 95% of its purchasing power, aided and abetted by the Federal Reserve’s loose monetary policy. How long will we as a Congress stand idly by while hard-working Americans see their savings eaten away by inflation? Only big-spending politicians and politically favored bankers benefit from inflation.

You can read more about Paul's bill here.

Sponsor

Rep. Ronald Paul [R-TX]

Cosponsors

Rep. Lynn Woolsey [D-CA]
Rep. Ted Poe [R-TX]
Rep. Walter Jones [R-NC]
Rep. Roscoe Bartlett [R-MD]
Rep. Steve Kagen [D-WI]
Rep. Dan Burton [R-IN]
Rep. Bill Posey [R-FL]
Rep. Dennis Rehberg [R-MT]
Rep. Paul Broun [R-GA]
Rep. Neil Abercrombie [D-HI]
Rep. Michele Bachmann [R-MN]

The Federal Reserve has unbelievably dictatorial and shadowy powers. There is a purposeful destruction of our currency by this organization, and it is long past time that the Federal Reserve is audited.

Here's a rather lengthy (but very informational) video clip of Rep. Paul presenting his case for the audit bill:



The devaluation of our currency-- sure to happen if things continue on their present course-- will destroy our economy. It will COLLAPSE. The Keynesian economy theory is a linear system- there is an end. The longer we allow this end to drag on, the harder the fall will become. The Federal Reserve must be stopped.

Declaration of Dependence... on the Gov'mt

Not to mention the right to destroy innocent life so as to harvest body parts for the rich; the right to practice sodomy and pornography; the right to be slovenly and vulgar...

Obama Goes Hitler

Well, what else shall it be called?? Wasn't stuff like this medical policy during Hitler's reign?

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama's announcement Monday that he is overturning limits on federally funded embryonic stem cell research will also include a broad declaration that science, not political ideology, will guide his administration.

Ah, yes, science. That noble word invoked at any time the killing of innocent babies is politically expedient (and lucrative).

Obama plans to direct the National Institutes of Health to put safeguards in place so science is protected from political interference.

President George W. Bush had limited taxpayer money for stem cell research to a small number of stem cell lines that were created before Aug. 9, 2001. But scientists say hundreds of newer lines are healthier and better suited to creating treatments for diseases.

Bush and his supporters said they were defending human life because days-old embryos are destroyed for the stem cells. The embryos are typically from fertility-clinic leftovers otherwise destined to be thrown away.

Ah, and recycling. After all, what responsible scientist would refuse to recycle?

Heil Hitler!

FFQF: Take Heart, Patriot

We participants of this meme have been released from a monthly theme; we are to be guided by our own interests. Perhaps as expected, I default to the brilliant Adamses. I will let their wisdom and words speak for themselves.

The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong; but the God of Israel is He that giveth strength and power unto His people. Trust in Him at all times, ye people, pour out your hearts before him; God is a refuge for us. --Abigail Adams

Let them revere nothing but Religion, Morality, and Liberty. --John Adams

Duty is ours; results are God's. --John Quincy Adams

Founding Father's Quote Friday is hosted at Meet the Founders blog

What Did They Know?

"[C]ommercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive and impolitic. ...[I]f industry and labour are left to take their own course, they will generally be directed to those objects which are the most productive, and this in a more certain and direct manner than the wisdom of the most enlightened legislature could point out."

A quote by that stupid, dumb old James Madison, who of course didn't know what he was talking about and isn't nearly as brilliant as our modern bureaucrats, in a speech to Congress, April 1789.

CPAC CRAP

I managed to read a little of Rush Limbaugh's speech at the Conservative Political Action Committee meeting for 2009, thanks to Fearless Blog. I consider myself a "conservative" to a certain degree (I'm certainly not a liberal or statist), but the name "conservative" today is something quite different than what it was 25-30 years ago. People possibly brand me something closer to a Libertarian, but I am not that, either. I classify myself as Constitutionalist.

Proof that the Conservative movement is rapidly deteriorating into a neo-con, weirdo morass is Limbaugh's speech. Here's a video I found of it, if you prefer not to read the transcript.



Limbaugh has completely discredited himself. Everything he says he, despite his pomp, circumstance, and room-sized, Pattonesque American flag proudly waving behind him, is absolutely discredited. THIS is the man who supported George W. Bush and the Republican Party-- who are just as guilty as tearing down our country as Obama and his liberal Democrat minions. Because Limbaugh refuses to hold both groups up to the same standard, and especially because the GOP has trampled on our flag and Constitution just as much as the Democrats, Limbaugh proves his blind partiality.

Mr. Limbaugh, please don't give us your great swelling words and patriotic flag-waving. You showed your true bought-and-paid-for colors when you dismissed Ron Paul for president and with your constant refusal to have held GW Bush up to the light of the Constitution-- that same Constitution that he has trampled just as much as Clinton or Obama. Don't insult our intelligence with your Goebbel-like speeches.

If this is what being a "conservative" means in our modern times, I'm proud to be considered a centrist libertarian. Whatever. I'd just like my free country and my liberty back, now. 

FFQF: The Most Important Amendment in the Bill of Rights

I am tardy with my Favorite Founding Father's Quote Friday. But I suppose better late than never?

Continuing with the theme of the Bill of Rights (for February), I would like to briefly discuss the Most Important Amendment:

Amendment X

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.

Amongst the rights guranteed to us as American citizens endowed by our Creator, including: the right to free speech; a free press; gathering together in peace; addressing our government with grievances; a speedy and fair trial; the right to bear arms against government tyranny; to be free from government searches of our property, possession, and persons without reasonable cause and a warrant; there is included in the 10th amendment a very meaningful declaration attached to our rights: to be entirely free in matters not given to the federal government.

Amendment X

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.

The states reserve the right to do as they please, as do the people of the United States. The powers of the federal government are LIMITED and ENUMERATED. Since the early 1900s, perhaps from the Federal Reserve Act of 1913, federal powers have encroached our liberty and become more powerful with increasing rapidity. And now, here we are, practically slaves to a federal system. Our freedoms are almost completely rewritten as they have been reinterpreted. It's become a joke. All lobbyists have to do are dangle Vegas vacations before politicians' eyes, and Big Business gets their perks off the backs of the American citizens. Moreover, as if robbing We the People from our income and the incomes of future Americans isn't enough, the federal government robs us of our liberties while at the same time trying to play Santa Claus to their pet lobbyists, ensuring their continued careers within the political machines while ensuring the destruction of our free country.  

We the people must remember that 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. This is OUR country and this is OUR government. I'd like to have it back, now, please.

See more FFQF contributions at the excellent Meet the Founders blog, by Hercules Mulligan.