[ClearCase_guy]

I should have also added that in Europe during the age of kings (pretty recent), peasants paid their taxes to the landowner, and when times were really tight, landowners would create various "make work" projects for the peasants -- the wealthy landowner provides food and/or money to keep the peasant's family from starving, and in the return the peasants build a castle, a canal, and pleasure park, or something like that.

This is what FDR did during the New Deal. This is what public works are. This is what Obama did with his stimulus package. We think we live in a modern age, but we are nothing but serfs laboring for the folks living in the castle.

[Regulator]

but we essentially labor on behalf of the Political Elite, and they live in palaces and think of us as peasants

Exactly.

And the public employee unions are the gangbanger enforcers of this new feudalism.

Modern American government is nothing more then a protection racket, a regression to the feudalist barbarism of Europe in the middle ages.

This is everything the American revolution was supposed to have rejected.

[Tax-chick]

This is what FDR did during the New Deal. This is what public works are. This is what Obama did with his stimulus package.

Except that in the Obama regime, the public works - those "shovel-ready jobs" - didn't actually happen. All that taxpayer money was blown, and the public didn't even get a Winter Palace or a pyramid.