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DC will never right the ship. We need another captain and crew to do that.

There’s going to be some real hurt first.
Economist and politicians built a model of the US to try to understand our great country. At some point along the way they (we) mistook the model for the the real thing. Fundamentals are fundamentals - productivity, saving, etc. - we’re already screwed.

I agree, both parties are failing us, but it is We the People that keep buying the BS.

Well, we can hope. But let’s be realistic. The entrenched bureaucracy, impermeable to election results, can destroy the work of any Hero on a White Horse who rides in to save us.

The power shifted to the bureaucracy long ago. The bureaucracy has to be neutralized or checked by the Great Conquering Hero.

I hope someone has a plan. I don’t see how it can be done.

Let's face it for real freedom loving Americans there is no longer a party for us, there are two parties one the 'demonrats' who love and want BIG GOVERNMENT, the bigger the better even if it becomes so big it bankrupts us.

And then we have the Republicans who except for a small handful deep down love big government just as much as the 'demonrats' do. How many times have we said NO to amnesty and are told well we will do it this one last time and then we promise to bolt the door and get it under control so this won't happen again and have they ever done that?

How many times has a new big tax proposal they should have opposed become a small tax and they come running to us with claims of victory? And yet its still more taxes for more government, how many such bitter victories can we afford?

They coming to us saying can't you see your 30 rounds magazines scare the children and it would drop crime, stop terrorism, prevent tooth decay, stop dogs from braking at night, so let's say we limit you to twenty-nine round magazines as a show of good faith? and then it's 28, then 27, then 26........and you know where it ends.

For every honest and forthright Republican Senator or Congressman who truly wants and does what is best for America I give you one who will sellout as fast as he can to get that second, third, fourth term.

So what we really have is a choice between BIG government right now and a slow easing of one into place.

Big Government is the life blood of these people the bigger the government the more 'pork' there is that can be spread around, which in turns brings them more power. The bigger the government the bigger the 'power pie' is and their piece gets just a little bit bigger.

The days of the American Government doing what the American people truly want are numbered. The days of our Congress 'critters' truly being servants of the people are all but over.

The days ahead I fear have become times that George Orwell described 'as a time of universal deceit, wherein telling the truth will be considered a revolutionary act' or as the bible says a time 'in which men call evil good, and good evil'.

Is it to late I do not know. Can America be saved I do not know, I hope so and I pray daily that it can as I have grandchildren and want them to grow up in a free land full of opportunities.

But my fear is that we have become a 'Narco Republic', but instead of cocaine, opium, meth and so forth the drugs that are being sold here is money and security and the coin of the realm is our very freedoms.

Rush Limbaugh summed it up the other day in what Judge Andrew Napolitano said were words worth of those of our Founders:

RUSH: You know what Ben Franklin said about this. This is one of my all-time favorite quotes. Benjamin Franklin once said: "People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both." Benjamin Franklin, and that's exactly right. People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both. People willing to trade their freedom for economic security, people willing to give up their dreams, people willing to trade the hard rigors of success in exchange for a modicum of existence will never know success, and their modicum sustenance hangs by a thread based on the good intentions of a government.

In other words, if you give up the right to provide for yourself, if you trade the hard work and the ambition of success, attempted success, for the guarantees of a government that you'll always have a phone, cable TV, and McNuggets, you're gonna be disappointed over both decisions. And, by the way, when you trade your freedom for temporary security, when you're not in charge of your security, when you have no control over your security, when you have no control over your economic circumstances, what kind of a thin thread are you hanging by? You're depending on the performance of other people that don't even know you. Politicians in a distant capital who, on a whim, could cancel whatever program that you depend on. Maybe cancel the McNuggets program, cancel the Obama phone program. It may happen. What if that's all you know? You depend on Santa Claus instead of yourself.

It's exactly right and look how many are hooked on what the Big Government 'Pushers' dealout.

And just like the war on real drugs the pushers and the users are winning this war as well.