[gipper81]

If we, as conservative Americans are not clearly focused and of single purpose and will, then we are going to be marginalized as voters - but we will be allowed to pay the taxes needed to further the "agenda for change."

Yes, "allowed to pay the taxes" is absolutely the correct phrasing. We have a full employment economy, yet I am sensing that we may have an Atlas Shrugged moment in the not so distant future.

[bill1952]

Gipper, you read my intentions so clearly that it made my eyebrows raise.

I went through a few edits before I used that exact phrase, and Ann Rand is one of those people that I consider to be my teachers...

Thanks for the observations, and, if we do not converse again before the New Year, have a Merry Christmas and/or Happy Holidays.