[snippy_about_it]

I think required reading for those who don’t fully understand what our Founders and the citizens of the day meant this country to be should be:

A Leap in the Dark, The Struggle to Create the American Republic by John Ferling.

Please for those who want their eyes opened to truly understand, get this book.

[Defender of American Liberty]

This is all a lost cause in the United States, IMHO.

Democracies have a 200 year shelf life. They always collapse once the lower economic classes realize they can vote en masse to confiscate wealth from the upper classes.

This last election 45% of the electorate paid NOTHING in federal taxes or received a net gain from their tax filings. Once 50% is reached, turn out the lights--it's over. The "Porkulus" package more or less guarantees it.

Class warfare rhetoric + a majority with no skin in the game = socialist tyranny

We'd all be better off to move to Alaska, get liberty-loving leaders elected to the State legislature, and secede from the Union. Start over.

Yes, it's cold, but with all those natural resources, combined with the implementation of private and secure banking, extremely low corporate tax rates, a VAT system rather than income tax, and severe limits on union activity (only collective bargaining operations--no lobbying or pension management permitted), we could turn the entire State into a free market economic powerhouse.

That's my solution.