Posted on 07/02/2015 11:43:43 AM PDT by Aspenhuskerette
Amid unending political horserace punditry — who’s up, who’s down in the wake of Supreme Court rulings, Congress’ trade-promotion votes, Iranian nuclear negotiations and the racist Charleston massacre — let’s Think Again about the most important concern: Are the American people winning or losing?
Are “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” — the national promise Americans celebrate on July Fourth — secure in this year of the Magna Carta’s 800th anniversary? That watershed moment in the annals of human liberty curbed a tyrannical monarch, like the American founding it helped inspire.
Initially an agrarian backwater in a socially stratified world, America unleashed boundless creativity and industriousness by asserting human equality, becoming history’s greatest economic wonder. While Great Britain’s well-being (real gross domestic product per capita) increased 14-fold between 1800 and 2007, America’s grew 32-fold.
Today, as Wall Street, Silicon Valley and Washington aristocracies prosper, Americans are suffering crisis levels of job insecurity, economic stagnation and poverty. Will immigrants who’ve left societies, where one’s start predetermined one’s end, discover that social mobility isn’t much better here?
With the Congressional Budget Office projecting Greek proportions of U.S. debt within 25 years, and a nuclearized Iranian terrorist state looming, are we bequeathing our children lower living standards and a weaker and vulnerable America?
The author of our Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson, captured the dilemma: “The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history. Whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or be ruled by a small elite.”
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The freedom loving Americans are now chained to open border, hate America first, sodomite, godless ‘lemmings’ who will not be happy until they drag us all over the cliff with them.
Is this a trick question?
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We all know that the government knows what’s best for us.
Nigel Farage of UKIP has described the system as it has unfolded in the UK (and I think the US as well) as a “corporatist” system a collusion of “big banks, big business and big government” so to speak.
These folks are shoving it down our throats with both parties giving us trade deals, an ever increasing national debt and so on down the line to include Obamacare, Amnesty-Open Borders, Common Core, Gay Marriage without First Amendment religious freedom protections for objectors, sanctions on those who don’t say the right things about controversial issues like Amnesty (Trump).
America’s Uniparty system resembles the capitalistic one party state in Singapore at the very least, and seems headed towards the Chinese Communist one party state where capitalism is allowed.
No, evil reigns and barbarians rule.
We are always in charge it’s how the country was is founded. What we allow is what we have
Even in a concentration camp you are in charge of your own life if you demand it be so. Being in charge may shorten said life, but you are always in charge.
The chosen, exempt, ruling elite, ...well, that's another matter.
Americans are not in charge of their lives. The federal courts rule supreme, with the federal burocracy occupying the next level. Together they dictate every aspect of our lives. As to e question, are Americans still in charge of our lives? Whoever asked that has to be kidding or they are blind as bats.
“Short, but accurate, we ordinary Americans are becoming serfs in the New World Order, just like every ordinary foreign citizen.
The chosen, exempt, ruling elite, ...well, that’s another matter.”
Everybody who works as a W-2 employee is a serf. If the government takes you money before it even hits your checking account then you’re paid owned by the government.
The FED government fee to renounce your US citizenship comes with a $2600 fee and an excise tax of 33% of all your assets.
If you are divorced and behind on your court mandated spousal support payments you cannot travel internationally because they have frozen your passport.
If someone you live with someone who places charges against you for domestic abuse then you no longer have your right to keep and bear arms, they have stripped away your 2nd Amendment rights.
According to the supreme court you are not Americans anymore. ANYONE can now vote; illegal aliens, tourists, foreign dignitaries, anyone.
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