[steveo]

Thanks for posting in full.

I'll echo that... thank you for not excerpting your post.

[Citizen Tom Paine]

This land of the free and the home of the brave that I symbolically toted a rifle for in the US Navy is no longer free. We live in a police state (disguised I grant you) while we load our grandchildren with debt so certain segments of the population may suck at the public tit. Our present politicians (note that I did not say leaders) know only tax and tax and spend and spend while debasing our dollar - effectively stealing from those of us that have any savings. Into this state of affairs mix, the deteriorating state of the world and we will have a blood bath. Again recall that the people will pay the price of poor leadership with the blood of their children. Thus has it been for the past 4000 years or so.