[sam_paine]

If so, how sad that America should end up like that. ... Perhaps 1776 wasn’t such a good idea, ay.

Well, now. It took a bit of fumbling around in the Dark Ages, and a lot of royal family blood feuds to get to a Constitutionally neutered Monarchy over there, now, didn't it?

As Churchill observed, "America can always be counted on to do the right thing...after exhausting all other options."

We've got another 'time for choosing' coming up in 2010.

We'll preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we'll sentence them to take the last step into a thousand years of darkness.

[DieHard the Hunter]

> Well, now. It took a bit of fumbling around in the Dark Ages, and a lot of royal family blood feuds to get to a Constitutionally neutered Monarchy over there, now, didn’t it?

And don’t forget a proper Revolutionary War — you know, where the good guys (Round Heads) got to chop of the King’s head in order to make him listen to Parliament?

That’s one thing you Yanks did wrong with your Revolutionary War: you didn’t chop off anybody’s head. Even the French got that part right with their Revolution. Even the Russians did, too.

[BP2]

We've got another 'time for choosing' coming up in 2010.

That's using the assumption that we'll have enough money to still be considered a sovereign nation by November 2010.

Based upon what we've since January 2009, how do you think these charts will look when the new Congress is sworn in on January 2011?

Imagine how these charts will appear once we account for funding/taxing for:
-- Cap & Trade (if passed by the Senate)
-- Nationalized Health Care
-- a 2nd Stimulus Bill
-- any other Government Business Take-overs
-- Record Unemployment
-- Inflation
-- etc.