[Nifster]

If you think the economy is NOT the over riding issue you are sorely mistaken...economic freedom is the base of all the other freedoms-—without that the government is guaranteed to get bigger and bigger. It is only through economic freedom that people can exercise the other freedoms that this nation has treasured from the beginning. It is the essential ingredient to all other freedoms.

Read Locke and Hyaek and Smith and Adams and Jefferson and all the others

[joanie-f]

You miss my point. That is precisely what I am saying. Those politicians who are touting the failing economy and 'jobs' as our number one problem are attempting to focus our attention on the symptom rather than the disease. That is precisely why I listed the loss of individual liberty as the number one crisis that is facing America.

The citizenry is screaming for the candidates to do something about the bleak jobs picture, and yet how many times do you hear either those citizens, or the politicians they are petitioning, even mention the word liberty? It's as if they are incapable of equating taxation and over-regulation with those segments of our ailing economy that both are destroying.

I have read Locke, Hayek and Smith (Hayek's 'Road to Serfdom' is a masterpiece).