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It seems to be occurring to some small degree, the US House is coalescing around the Cut, Cap and Balance idea.

If carried through with firmness this might one day be regarded as THE turning point in the United States.

If not, it will be one in a list of many missed opportunities that could have averted national bankruptcy.

I must admit I am skeptical Boehner will have the courage to actually force the issue.

But we must dispense with the idea that he CAN’T force this issue. The Republicans HAVE the ability to force the Amendment through the US Senate. Reid’s hand can be forced on this.

It is the Democrats and their bloated programs that [...]

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The REAL problem with airport security

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and with financial reform, and health care, and Social Security, and MediCare/caid, and terrorism is this;

We have a government that thrives by driving us with fear. If they can scare us, they get more power. It is like a Pavlovian parlor trick.

Create FEAR = get POWER.

etc, etc, ad nauseum.

It is not that these problems (the supposed underlying problem) don’t all have some risks associated with them. Poverty, injury, death. But the government has a vested interested in overblowing the danger in order to get us to release power to them. In fact, all too often, we DEMAND they take the power and do something.

We will never be free as long as [...]

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No major nationally known politician will talk about ending the Social Security Ponzi Scheme.

Except, Rick Perry. Here.

Several of us recently had a debate in the diaries (Here and Here.) regarding the scam and how to end it. Thanks again GC.

The other side of the argument was that Social Security is “defacto constitution,” whatever that means, and that nobody who is anybody is saying it should be ended.

Not only is Perry talking about ending Social Security, he is talking about ending ALL of the New Deal. Income Tax, SS, and More.

Perry criticized President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal and an early 20th-century “progressive era” movement that “gave the federal government access to our wallets via taxation.”

Perry,” I want people to be afraid not to talk about that Social Security is bankrupt and is a [...]

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The REAL problem with airport security

No major nationally known politician will talk about ending the Social Security Ponzi Scheme.