Brainwashed it is.
Our self interested educrats should be horsewhipped or hung for treason for 100 years of their lies.
A recent poll indicates the average adult can't name all three branches of his own Govt - just they way Govt likes it, as Donald Luskin propounds and exsposes in his excellent blog http://www.poorandstupid.com/chronicle.asp
And here are some great links - the ones educrats would destroy if they only could. These will bring anyone up to speed re: the progressive's hijacking of our constitution for elite benefit at taxpayer expense.
Taking money back (completely logical and constitutional)
http://www.mises.org/rothbard/moneyback.asp
How Progressives Rewrote the Constitution (video)
http://www.cato.org/realaudio/cbf-02-15-06.ram
The Issue of Tariffs: How U.S. Revenue Collection Was Turned Inside-Out (video)
http://mises.org:88/Sophocleus
Size Matters: How Big Government Puts the Squeeze on America's Families, Finances, and Freedom And Limits the Pursuit of Happiness (video)
http://www.cato.org/realaudio/cbf-02-02-06.ram
Big Business and the Rise of American Statism (exc essay)
http://praxeology.net/RC-BRS.htm
The Founding of The Federal Reserve (video)
http://mises.org:88/Rothbard-Fed
The Great Depression, World War II, and American Prosperity, Part I (video)
http://www.mises.org/multimedia/video/Woods/Woods5.wmv
Secrets of the Federal Reserve (the web of power is phenominal)
http://www.barefootsworld.net/fs_m_ch_01.html
Jackson's 2nd Bank US VETO (very important - what he correctly and constitutionally opposed is just what we ended up with in 1913)
http://alpha.furman.edu/~benson/docs/ajveto.htm
"The Separation of Commercial and Investment Banking: The Morgans vs. the Rockefellers" (the true thieves of the taxpayers and obsconders of the const)
http://www.mises.org/journals/qjae/pdf/qjae1_1_1.pdf
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