My appologies for painting such a depressing picture. Its better to stay optimistic and keep trying to advance the cause of freedom.

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Well David, I'd like to give you that pep talk but I'm afraid I have to concur with your general outlook. For one, are we not supposed to be living within a Republic? Quite a different thing than a Democracy. In a pure Democracy of 100 people, if 66 of them say "this will be so"... then you've got 33 unhappy folks with one that forgot to vote. This sort of unbalanced arrangement simply cannot be compelled to survive. But I believe it comes down to cause and effect in that most of our societies troubles are merely symptoms of the disease that lies (no pun intended) at the core: non-tangible paper money. A society is only as corrupt as what it uses as its medium of exchange. As pointed out in your post "...with the results that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy." A Democracy with loose fiscal policy running on monopoly money leaves too much operating room for parasites.

So, how do we stop this? That becomes the question. How do you put a dope dealer out of business?... stop using his product. But that's where it gets tricky... as a society, we're all hooked on paper. We've been very well "paper trained" as it were with no end in sight. We would need some kind of Ron Paul style "anti-paper money bomb day" where, for that one day, a few million people simply conducted their personal/business affairs in some other medium besides FRN's... no credit cards or foreign paper either... tangible transactions. Now, how "simple" that would be IRL is another thing all together in light of the fact that roughly 65% or more of the population today receives some kind of benefit check from the paper parasites. Thoughts?

Those are great words, no doubt. But the big question is whether collectivists can be dissuaded from their goal of getting everything provided for them by government. I'm in a pessimistic mood today so I'm going to guess that things will proceed as predicted by Sir Alexander Tytler who said;

"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largess from the public treasury. From that time on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the results that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship."

Fiscal collapse does not seem unlikely in view of the government's total lack of fiscal responsibility and the the unprecedented $45 trillion in unfunded future liabilities. And Bush's policies are already bordering on dictatorship.

OK anyone want to give me pep talk? I obviously need one now.

plundering parasites off our backs!

The best part was all the people pondering the speech with their hands to the chin-rather pensive I'd say

What good is Freedom of the Press
If The Press will not Press for Freedom!

Go get em Bucfish, good stuff. We must stand up as Individuals!
The collective of one!

Thanks for all your support.

Rahn

This Speech is awesome. It just rings so true. Undeniable.