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Townhall.com ^ | November 10, 2013 | John Ransom

[Kaslin]

Rx7pj wrote: What the hell makes you think you have lost the constitution , liberty or freedom??? I haven't lost any of these things and if yo live here either have you. Quit parroting this right winged garbage. Eeewww! Amycare for US Senate

Dear Comrade RX,

I could write a book about how we’ve lost the constitutional limitations on government, but others have already done that job for me.

Here’s a few: Never Enough: America's Limitless Welfare State ;

Terms of Engagement: How Our Courts Should Enforce the Constitution's Promise of Limited Government;

Restoring the Lost Constitution: The Presumption of Liberty;

The Liberty Amendments: Restoring the American Republic

Instead of just parroting Left-Wing garbage, you should probably try reading those books.

But more to your point, yes, I think that when the United States' government monitors all Internet traffic, monitors every single domestic telephone call for pattern recognition; when governments install video monitoring devices at every intersection; when the government guarantees entire industries like banking, real estate, autos, the university system, and now healthcare; when the plain language of the Second Amendment-- that says the right to keep and bear arms shall NOT be abridged-- is abridged to only include specific people who can keep and bear arms; when the government starts tracking children in the womb with personally identifiable information– children who they don’t even recognize as humans under their reading of the constitution—in order to promote some liberal idea of education reform; when that government does all that, then, yes, we have lost the constitution, our liberty and our rights.

When you add up the economic activity in so-called "private industry" that the government controls, you get a sense why government as a percentage of our GDP is over 40 percent, rivaling the years of World War II when 19 million American men were in uniform.

Real Estate +6.3%; Autos +3.3%; K-12 +5.7%; College +3.1; Healthcare +17.9%. That comes out to 36.3% of GDP in industries closely controlled by the government. If you add in just Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and the big six systemic banks that the federal government guarantees, you can figure on another $18 trillion in assets that the government closely controls. Our entire GDP for a year is around $16 trillion.

Seriously. Try reading books.

If you can’t see the intersection between the government and our economy in constitutional terms, then let’s just say there really is no difference between you and communists.

But of course, that’s why I call you comrade.

[Kaslin]

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[HarleyD]

The author presumes this person can read.

[VRW Conspirator]

The lefties are quite good at projection.

[Kaslin]

They sure are

[Shery]

The lefties are well-trained in their thought processes. By the time they graduate HS these days, they cannot think for themselves and even conservative young are confused. Once they go on to higher education (what a misnomer!) most of have been converted fully to the left and it will take decades (realities of life) to bring them back to their senses.