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The tough part of it is feeling totally helpless for the first time in my life and having no course of action but to seek small jobs to service the debt on our properties while we watch (almost) helplessly as our country flounders in much the same condition as we are in personally.

The two things that weigh on me most heavily are my grandsons (5 and 2) whom I haven't been able to visit in two years and the fact that they were born in this time and may witness the virtual end of the greatest nation the world has known.

I hate to think where all of this may be going, but one way or another we will soon be among fellow patriots in a region other than the Pacific North West where most of the population longs for the U.N. to chart their future.

I know the feeling, man. I think there could be three things that could save us. One, God himself working through principled people. Two, everything collapses and we rebuild things the way things should be, either taking part of the U.S. and breaking away or rebuilding the whole country, piece by piece, like in the post-nuclear war book series by William Johnstone, "Out of the Ashes." "Ashes...." is where a general, General Ben Raines, rises up and cleans out the United States (after a nuclear war with the USSR, it was written in the 1980's) of thugs, city by city, street by street. That leads me to a third, I admit this is a dangerous dice role, but see my tagline below, maybe we need an American version of a General Pinochet. This third option will need someone who needs to take an iron hand on some things with the ideal of restoring the Republic to it's Constitutional roots after a period of cleanup, maybe there would be like a council of like minded folks behind this leader to temper him/her and monitor things. Things are going down the crapper so bad that this is starting to look good at times.