Posted on 04/26/2022 1:35:13 PM PDT by karpov
Sometimes I think about what America was like when my grandfather was young. In 1908, when he was 22, he started a business that, I’m happy to say, thrives to this day. He was the son of Swedish immigrants and started with nothing but some mechanical know-how and a good entrepreneurial idea.
Stories like his were very common in the America of a century ago. Millions of ambitious immigrants flooded into the US because its governmental system and culture were conducive to productivity and innovation. The people overwhelmingly expected to succeed or fail on their own efforts. Almost nobody thought he had a right to live at the expense of others, or had any right to dictate how others must act or what they must believe.
Moreover, the legal system protected Americans’ rights to life, liberty, and property. Theft was illegal. Acts of coercion were illegal. If someone wanted your money, he could only ask for it and had to take “no” for an answer. If someone wanted you to join a labor union, he could ask, but you were perfectly free to decline.
In those days, there were no officious bureaucrats dictating what people could and couldn’t do in their businesses. Taxes were low. At all levels, government consumed less than ten percent of the GDP. Therefore, nearly all of America’s resources of labor and materials were under the direction of the market’s profit and loss system. Profits signaled where more investment would pay off; losses quickly put an end to ill-conceived ventures.
And – crucially – government had almost no power to reward special interest groups. It did interfere with international trade to benefit domestic producers, but aside from that, government stuck closely to the precepts of laissez-faire.
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Before or after the upcoming WAR?
Be a shame if bureaucrats started disappearing.
Only IF a true American Patriot becomes the next POTUS and is willing to clean house in every aspect of the government, starting with the DOJ, FBI, CIA MILITARY and right on down the list, which is what Trump failed to do. Other than that we are doomed.
BO spent eight years, carefully seeding the government with progressives who placed other lefties far into middle management.
Trick question
Trick question
Got ammo?
The bureaucrats in D.C. control the country...until every department is gone we are not free.....we just think we are..
No
No not without bloodshed on our soil. Voting, bloging,twittering,protesting, boycotting none of that will work only bloodshed and a complete reset of the founding principles over the bodies of those who have removed them. Next question.
When in the course of human events...
Beat me to it. The only other way may take a century.
It is target ID we need, and a touch of immunity.
Too many sheep in the pasture. I’d say not much chance. The Patriots are outnumbered with free loaders both public and private.
That question might be considered to be similar to premature ejaculation...
First, we need to ask:
"Is there any chance of the blissfully grazing sheeple waking up to notice that there are problems of lost freedom & liberty?"
War are fought between twenty year-olds lead into combat by thirty year olds who are following 40s and 50 generals. A 60 year old on blood pressure meds with a CPap machine , 30 lbs overweight who can barely run a 10 min mile without nearly having a coronary is not taking the fight to twenty year olds anyone who says differently one has never actually been in combat and two is delusional. The question is are there enough Patriots in the 20 to 40 brackets to wage a war inside our borders. Older folks can do support or rear echelon but not many 50s let alone 60s are gonna hump 40 lbs of armor ammo and kit to the battle field then shoot and scoot.
Let’s roll.
Have you seen the under 40 set these days? Mostly obese or twig thin beta male soy boys.
Step One: Take down the internet. Permanently.
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