Chapter 1

Let me introduce myself – I was born in the latter part of World War II; raised in New York City by our Mother (who made great sacrifices for her children) in a low-income housing project with my brother and sister; educated myself while working without government assistance; was drafted into the U. S. Army during the Vietnam War; and I‘ve worked as a manager in the defense industry and as a computer consultant.

I have lived on the east coast, the Midwest and in California, and I feel I have learned much of the anger and frustrations from the Americans who live in these very diverse cultures. I’m just an average American, who along with many of my associates, feel nothing but disgust with the direction of the morals, politics and government control within our society.

Growing Up As A Child

When I grew up as a child in a lower middle class household, the Federal, state and local governments were insignificant to my family and me. My Mother raised the three of us on a “barebones” budget with no help from outside agencies. Who helped my Mother? The answer is my grandparents and uncles and aunts, also known as the FAMILY. There were plenty of drawbacks to this situation – lack of money – lack of adequate healthcare coverage – but we survived and eventually became somewhat prosperous by following the American dream that recognizes that hard work will eventually bring rewards. We didn’t ask for any handouts, if for no other reason there were none available. That in itself solves a major problem. We knew the only way we could achieve success was by putting our nose to the grindstone and work our fingers to the bone. Granted we were white and we did not face the uphill fight that many minorities faced in those days. But today, the playing field is just about even, and often the tables are turned and now it often seems that middle-class whites face the uphill battle.

An important question must be asked, “Who can help an individual the most - the FAMILY or the government?” This is almost an asinine question but today many people want the government to intervene in almost every aspect of our lives. In my youth, government was a non-entity. Taxes my Mother paid were very low. She didn’t begrudge paying a few dollars so we had paved streets we could drive on, or having the garbage picked up twice a week, and to support our police departments and military. Why do you think people want so much government help today? I strongly suspect that’s because today both parents work full time jobs to survive and pay the outrageous taxes extorted from our paychecks. People rarely have the time to devote to their family obligations, so they expect the government to fill the void, which raises our taxes even more. It’s a Catch-22 situation.

Why I Wrote This Book?

The objective of this book is to 1) explore the frustrations many of us feel in America with the often seemingly hopeless fight to limit big government, 2) to try and get many of you “apathetic voters” reinvigorated back into the political process, and 3) find a way with your help to change the direction of the economic, political and moral issues that are destroying this great country. Let us not forget that “A long journey begins with the first step.”

The information I impart herein is not just my own opinion. The source of my information comes from in-depth research provided by scholars, books, newspapers, the Internet, and above all from my many associates.

Most Americans don’t have the time to carefully analyze every issue and determine what lies the politicians will throw at you tomorrow. The politicians count on that indisputable fact – that’s why they create the disgusting “mud slinging” radio, TV and newspaper ads to slam their opponent with many outright lies and half-truths. How often have we listened to the propaganda thrown at us during the election campaign, and then as soon as the candidate enters office, he or she immediately changes direction on all of the issues by blaming the opposition party for the problem? This is especially true when it comes to the need for additional taxes to balance the budget. In New Jersey, when Governor James McGreevy was elected to office in 2002, we were bombarded with his rantings and ravings about the tremendous budget deficit that the previous Republican administration had left for his new administration. Regardless of whether the administration of any state is Republican or Democrat, the major problem has been that the huge windfall these governments received in the form of tax revenues that were so plentiful in the 1990’s due to the expanding economy, are now a thing of the past. The concept of saving for a rainy day never entered their inept minds. Governments just kept increasing their budgets as the money rolled in. Starting in about 2001 as the administrations tried to cut the budget, every organization screamed about how the government was cutting vital programs that were non-existent until these states were flush with monies. Even though the economy was in downfall and the budget problem was so severe, why is it that the budget for New Jersey managed (or mismanaged) to increase by $1.7 billion? This is a primary example of government growth that incurs my wrath on a daily basis.

How We Gather Information

Before we continue, it is important that we understand how we form our beliefs in life. As we grow up, the major influence on our learning process is our parents and the school system. We learn about family values and tradition from our parents, while the school system teaches us the “3 R’s” of reading, ‘riting and ‘rithmetic. If our parents were Catholic and Democrats, chances are we’ll be Catholic and Democrats. After most of our fundamental values are established, some of us move onto college, where a whole new world, both positive and negative, is opened to us. We hear many things in college that challenge the wisdom inherent in our initial upbringing, generally very leftist and socialist in nature. While you are in your 20s, you try and reconcile the indoctrination by your family with the new “save the world” philosophy introduced to you by many teachers and newly found friends often from very diverse backgrounds. Then between the ages of 25 and 30 most of us get married, and the real world problems of owning a home, paying property taxes and having babies becomes paramount, influencing us in totally different ways. For most people, the period from when we are born up to the age of 35 is one of absorption or of indoctrination from all of those influences that make up our world. After the age of 35, most people start to think for themselves, and start to question all of the values that have been forced upon them. This makes some people skeptical if not downright critical of all that came before them. This period is best summed up by the famous quotation by Winston Churchill, in which he stated:

“If you’re not a liberal at the age of 20, you have no heart. And if you’re not a conservative at the age of 40, you have no brain.”

Although I suspect that many people will not agree with me on this issue, assuming you are raised in a religious household, you may yourself become very religious and advocate your “belief system” to anyone who will listen, even attempting to proselytize people of other religions. But in actuality for the majority of people, your religious convictions have nothing to do with a belief system – it’s indoctrination pure and simple, since the vast majority of people never bother to investigate alternate religions or philosophies. Why do I mention this indoctrination versus “belief system” argument? Because, if you grew up in most Arab/Islamic cultures, a completely different picture unfolds, since you are force fed the Koran from the first day of your life. However, if the parents in these countries are well off, they often send their children to schools in the United States or Europe, which generally provides these individuals with alternative philosophies and thought processes that hopefully they carry home. Unfortunately, far too few Muslims are afforded this opportunity. 95% of these peoples do not have access to the tremendous amount of information that we in the west are accustomed to on a daily basis, like the Internet, liberal/conservative newspapers, libraries, talk shows and especially free speech, affording us the opportunity to evaluate and grow as a people.

In a number of backwater Muslim countries such as Afghanistan and Pakistan, children are educated in Madrassas, Islamic religious schools where they are taught the Koran based on Wahhabism, a particularly austere and rigid form of Islam that has its roots in Saudi Arabia. Many of these people never learn the 3 R’s – just the teachings of the Koran. There is no room for interpretation in their lives. Since they rarely have any alternative sources of information, they become dedicated Muslims and the most radical individuals mutate into suicide bombers. They don’t have the opportunity to evaluate the offerings of political candidates, as there are no democracies in Arab countries. In all likelihood, the American form of democracy we are attempting to force on the Iraqi people will soon fall by the wayside in a melee of civil war and strife until an all-powerful fundamentalist Muslim religious leader snatches control. Our political experts just don’t seem to get the message. Muslims already have a political solution - It’s called the Koran - that governs their every action, whether we like it or not.

The reason I provided the above explanation is that to a lesser degree we have a similar situation in this country. Many of the convictions we have are borne not out of our own investigations but we are just following through on the indoctrination that has been pounded into our brain. Whether you consider yourself liberal, conservative or independent, Democrat, Republican or apathetic, religious or agnostic, the country’s political and economic vitality requires that we as a people clear our minds, erase many preconceived notions, and take an intelligent, hard look at the direction we are heading, because we are heading for a downfall.

Everyone Else Wants To Tell Me How Run My Life

I am sick and tired of the control freaks who want to tell me how to run my life. I am especially infuriated with all of the do-gooders who want to save me from myself – because they believe they know better than I do. Gee, I’ve made it this far on my own. Maybe by the time I’m 90 I’ll have a clue as to what life is all about. It seems that all of the special interest groups and zealots, represented by the Christian Right, anti-abortion groups, gun lobby, academia and liberal/leftist organizations, are all trying to ram their agenda down my throat. I don’t care if you keep your own damn beliefs to yourself, no matter how distorted or irrational they may be – but leave me alone. If you have terrible guilt pangs about our past injustices and you feel so strongly about your cause, then donate one-half your paycheck to support your beliefs but leave my income alone. And stop trying to pass laws that support your position, because I’ll fight you every step of the way. Maybe we should petition Congress to modify the Federal tax forms so people can check a box increasing the rate at which they are taxed. I would be shocked if the people who rant and rave about the American people not paying enough taxes to support their misdirected dreams would even glance at that part of the form, as they want you and I to share in the cost of their grandiose plans.

The state of Massachusetts did exactly that. When they lowered the state personal income tax percentages, they gave concerned citizens the option of paying at the new rate of 5.3% or paying at the old rate of 5.85%. The vast majority of people, including John Forbes Kerry, a citizen of that state, chose the lower rate. So much for his personal contributions to society especially considering that his wife is worth over $500 million.

Destroying American’s Institutions

Make no mistake: America is fighting a war to save some of its most cherished institutions. We are being buried under illegal and politically catered decisions by both Federal and state Supreme Courts (commonly called judicial activism) that attack the very foundations of our makeup including the Pledge of Allegiance, the Ten Commandments, and acknowledgement of God and marriage. It’s all happening under the guise of the neutral values and the secular (not specifically relating to religion or to a religious body) mentality wherein under political correctness everything is equal. The people pushing this mentality are looking for their view of perfection in society – they want to find Nirvana. Well, it’s not going to happen as far as I’m concerned. I’m not a religious person, but the use of God and the Ten Commandments in our principles and teachings is the foundation by which much of our culture and form of government was founded. The politically correct people are using an invalid definition of “separation of church and state” interpretation of the Constitution as the basis for many of their distorted policies.

I am fed up with “big” government and the abuse of our civil liberties. Within the book, I dissect the Patriot Act, a piece of legislature as potentially evil as any law created in a dictatorship.

Let us not forget the quote from Benjamin Franklin,

“They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”

Government Growth

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, in the September 2004 Current Employment Statistics Highlights report, government employment has increased from slightly over 18,000,000 in 1990 to 21,641,000 as of September 2004.

Government employees include Federal, state and local government plus the active military, which is relatively small in comparison.

21,641,000 employees? Have we lost our minds? This is a government formulated on the principles of free enterprise. And who do you think is paying the salaries of those 21 million plus employees plus their office space, computers, healthcare and other expenses? You, Joe and Mary Public, are paying through the nose for the privilege of supporting these people. Where do all of these people come from? When Governor McGreevy of New Jersey left office in 2004, he nominated over 200 people for paid and unpaid state positions to ensure that they would still be employed in state government and receive a nice fat paycheck or pension. It made little difference that few of these individuals were qualified for those positions.

I can’t prove it because communist governments rarely made statistical data available for public consumption that were highly tainted to support the revolution, but I strongly suspect that the United States now has more bureaucrats than the old Soviet Union in it’s heyday. That is a truly frightening prospect and the number grows in leaps and bounds each month.

Labor Growth in New Jersey

Let’s examine the growth one of the states, using New Jersey as an example. The period from December 2000 to July 2004 is a good period to examine because the economy was going through a period of contraction due to the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the dot.com bubble bursting, the Y2K employment charade, problems in the stock market, and other factors.

Employment Category	Number of Jobs
Private Jobs	-31,300
Government Jobs:	48,200
Federal Government	-400
State Government	12,000
Local Government (including education)	35,200
TOTAL	16,900

New Jersey Employment Statistics December 2000 – July 2004

According to the New Jersey Department of Labor, during that nearly 4 year period, the private sector, which employs over 4 million workers, eliminated over 31 thousand jobs, while the state and local governments added over 48 thousand jobs with about one-half of that in education. This is just one minor example of the unjustifiable expansion of government while the constituents of the state were struggling to survive. Does government ever reduce the head count? I cannot remember one instance where I’ve read about that circumstance.

To see if your state also expanded at a comparable and unacceptable rate, access the Department of Labor for your state via the Internet. Most states have statistics where you can plug in a range of dates to look at the growth of public and private jobs. You can start your search by accessing the various tables available from the Bureau of Labor Statistics web site:

http://www.bls.gov/home.htm

Then click on “Regions, States and Areas at a Glance.”

Tax Extortion

I don’t know about you, but I go into cardiac arrest every time I look at the tax deductions on my paycheck. The tax bills that most of us face, from outrageous property and income taxes to the subtler but equally devastating gas, utilities, telephone and thousands of other taxes is sheer lunacy. I have included a partial list within the book outlining the obscene taxes extorted by the government for which we all pay. How about a $0.75 tax on inoculations? Greed knows no bounds. Oh, and don’t forget that I spent over 17 years as a defense contractor in high-level management positions, so I have a broad level of experience as to how cautiously government spends our money – excuse me while I choke on my words.

Note that I used the term, “our money.” There are many people who believe it is not our money but money that the government can use as they see best - this is a very dangerous concept. And if you believe that the government exercises the same fiscal restraint as you do when you dole out your paycheck to pay your bills each month, you will be sadly mistaken. The government plays by a different set of rules. Giving money to government is like giving heroin to a drug addict. Let’s put this issue in perspective – the problem is not with tax cuts that many people decry – the problem is with out-of-control wasteful government spending, incompetence and corruption at the local, state and Federal levels, which I document within this book.

IT HAS BECOME APPARENT THAT THE MOST IMPORTANT JOB THE GOVERNMENT HAS IS FINDING INGENIOUS NEW WAYS TO TAX JOE AND MARY PUBLIC.

The First Tax Rebellion

What can be done about these outlandish taxes? In case you are not well versed in American history, prior to the Revolutionary War in 1773, a band of Americans dressed up as Indians raided a ship carrying tea in Boston harbor, and proceeded to throw the tea overboard as a protest to the newly enacted Tea Tax invoked by King George of England. This “Boston Tea Party” was the first American tax protest because the people felt that the Tea Tax was a prime example of “Taxation without representation.” WELL, IT’S TIME FOR ANOTHER BOSTON TEA PARTY!

I was almost tempted to call the book, “American Politics for Dummies,” but I’m sure in this age of engaging lawyers to sue someone for simply breathing in the same air space, I can assure you that the legal vultures would have been stripping my carcass the day after the book was published.

Cause and Effect Relationship

One of the most startling facts about this government growth that never fails to amaze me is how so many people have no clue as to the “Cause and Effect” relationship between new laws passed by Congress and the resultant impact this has on taxes and government employment growth.

I have often heard people simultaneously cheer a new law, especially a law affecting the family, while failing to recognize the financial consequences of that law, whether that results in additional taxes or the need for more government employees. Simultaneously, I then hear this same group of people complain about their tax burden. 2 + 2 = 4, citizens!

The American people need to smarten up and recognize that something of significant benefit rarely comes cheaply. Before they start cheering, they must understand the costs to implement a law, and question its value to society.

“1984” Is Here Today

If you desire insight into the onrushing crush of totalitarian government in America, spend a few hours and read the book, “1984,” by George Orwell. Anyone who is vehemently opposed to the control that government is exercising over the people should spend a few hours absorbing the message in this classic work.

In this novel, George Orwell described a totalitarian society in which the government, simply called The Party (obviously indicating there were no other parties), had almost total control over the people. The supreme ruler of the Party was “Big Brother” with posters proclaiming that “Big Brother is Watching You.” Gigantic telescreens continuously inundated the populace with brainwashing material about marvelous government programs. The Party slogan: War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength, was plastered all over coins, stamps, books and film. The most eye-opening aspect of this book is it was written in 1949 before big government became a reality.

In the book, police helicopters zip in and out of the buildings, allowing police to observe people’s everyday activities. As frightening as the Police Patrol was, the people were terrified by the Thought Police (does this allegory not smack of “Politically Correct?”). The telescreens not only transmitted governmental policies, they also transmitted both sounds and pictures from inside the homes back to the Thought Police. Orwell painted a grim picture of the 20th century, a time he believed marked the end of personal freedoms on the planet.

This Book Has Been Written For You

This book has been written for you, the typical disenfranchised, frustrated or disgusted voter. The book is also written for the people who vote either for the “lesser of two evils” or will vote for candidate “A” because they despise candidate “B.” Remember, candidate “C” and candidate “D” are also available. This book is NOT written for the intellectual elite, as intellectuals for other intellectuals write most books that attempt to convey a message. Less than one-half the registered voters bother to vote on Election Day in state and local elections. You, the 50+ percent of eligible voters, CAN be the voting block that can make a difference in this country. According to various experts, the term “voter apathy” is not an accurate assessment of the reason people fail to vote. People fail to vote because 1) they are confused about the issues due to the high-pressure tactics of the two major political parties, or 2) it is their form of protest against the established political parties since they feel there are few fundamental differences between the two parties and candidates.

Recognize that with all of the hoopla and flag waving, when a president, Senator, congressmen or local official is elected, that individual often has not been elected with a majority, because you, the “apathetic voter” majority, has chosen not to vote.

This book represents the collective thoughts of my circle of friends. This circle of friends consists of men and women ranging in age from their late 30s to over 60, who come from very broad ethnic, cultural and religious backgrounds, from tradesmen to professionals. The majority of my male associates are well educated and veterans of Korea, Vietnam and Desert Storm. A reasonable question can be asked, “Are the author and his associates just Neanderthals who have lost touch with reality and needs of today’s society, or perhaps on the opposite side of the coin they have learned a significant lesson from their worldly experiences?” We of course believe that we have learned life’s lesson well and reject the poorly conceived concepts such as the gigantic government give-a-way programs that are against the very foundations of this great country. Slowly but surely, government is destroying the one driving emotion that is the backbone of this country, incentive. And don’t assume that we are heartless or close-minded individuals who are indifferent to the problems in America with poverty, racism, health care, women’s rights, corporate greed, education, social security and other critical issues, as this could not be farther from the truth. The fundamental problem is that we emphatically disagree with how some elements of society are trying to correct these problems, by extorting “our money” in the form of tax dollars and illegal court decisions by sympathetic “activist” jurists to ram ill-conceived theories down our throats. More importantly, no one is responsible for his or her actions anymore. It always seems to be someone else’s fault. What happened to personal responsibility? It is non-existent.

I have noticed over the course of my life that the people I’ve known who want more government control and services are people who have never been in the military or worked for the government. My friends who want substantially less government control and services are military veterans or former defense contractors. Now why is that?

What Is My Objective?

Based on my commentary, it may not seem like it but I have no right or left agenda that I’m pushing. I attempt to keep an open mind on all issues – something I must admit I rarely see in the behavior or mindset of the vociferous attitudes of the people on the extreme left and right. I just know that we need a drastic change in policies, including a return to our roots that made this the greatest country in the world. I despise both the Democratic and Republican parties - they are just two similar despicable evils dressed up in different animal skins. An associate of mine has coined the catchy phrase – “Republicrats.” I defy you to point out the significant differences between these two “cookie cutter images” that control the country. Every day the press is filled with phrases like “Conservative Democrat” and “Compassionate Republican” so that we are supposed to be impressed that the party covers a broad base. Are we really that stupid? I don’t think so.

Remember, there’s nothing in our Constitution or laws that mandates a two-party political system. There are viable alternatives to these choices.

If you listen to the rhetoric spewing out of both camps, the carefully refined phrases are all very general in nature: “I have a plan to end the war in Iraq” or “I’m going to get tough on terrorists” or “I will fight to get a national health plan for the people.” Really? Well, I want to know more specifics about how this plan will work? Will you need to double our income taxes to pay for the national health plan? If that’s the case, that’s totally unsatisfactory, as then we’re no better off then we were before.

Don’t expect to find the horrendous inaccuracies and undocumented claims that are rife in books and so-called documentaries prepared by Michael Moore (“Fahrenheit 9/11”) on the extreme left or the self-indulgent views of Ann Coulter (“Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right.”) on the extreme right, wherein everything on the left or right, respectively, is absolutely perfect and everything the opposition does is evil and corrupt. You won’t find these narrow-minded and obfuscated perceptions in this book. Following the traits of the best journalists, I have attempted to find at least two sources of information for any factual information other than my own opinions or experiences I penned in the book. I don’t have any “wild-eyed” theories or distorted views that I will attempt to ram down your throat. As Sgt. Joe Friday often stated on Dragnet, “Just the facts, Ma’am.”

Topics Covered in the Book

The book reviews the proud history of this country from the dreams of our Founding Fathers, through violations of our Constitution, on up through the issues that are being hotly debated in the press and by organizations with strong lobbies in Congress. Unless we pull together to reject the nonsense that has enveloped the country, this illogical and corrupt direction that leads to the lack of morals, cheating and lying at the highest levels of government and corporate America and lack of responsibility at all levels will prevail.

Throughout the book, I review many touchy subjects that aggravate millions of Americans. I discuss how we have lost our direction to be a free and democratic society, the benefits/failings of various economic/political systems including capitalism, socialism, communism and even anarchy (total lack of government); then I analyze topics that can really get the blood boiling like healthcare, affirmative action, immigration, capital punishment, the social security system, loss of our civil liberties, the horrendous overpricing in the defense industry, the new aristocracy (Congress), and the horrendous waste of our tax dollars.

I can recall as a high school student in the 1960s when the cold war was a frightening experience, we bellowed out, “Better dead than red,” in reference to the Russian communists (our ideological foe) without the slightest understanding of what that expression meant. That’s why it’s important that before we dissect all of these critical issues, we fundamentally understand the difference between these forms of government/economic systems because it has a bearing on our political leanings. Read the next chapter, “Which Political/Economic System Is Best?” for an in-depth look at how various systems work.

The Downfall of Democracy

Of extreme interest, the United States is not the first successful democracy in the world. Over 2,500 years ago, the people of Athens, Greece created a true democratic form of government that lasted for nearly 200 years but was eventually destroyed not by the people but by a military overthrow by a powerful neighbor. On the negative side, they kept slaves in much the same manner as our fledgling democracy. The most intriguing aspect of the Athenian democracy was that the people voted directly on every issue that affected their lives. Politicians, or so-called representatives of the people, did not exist. To ensure our survival, that’s the future for America – eliminate the politicians. Of course I’m advocating a radical concept but it’s time to think outside the box to save the country. With emerging technologies there is realistically no reason why within 10 to 20 years we cannot eliminate the obnoxious power of Congress and place the onus of responsibility back on the people where it belongs, by voting directly on every statewide or nationwide issue. Just watch what happens to taxes and the budget if the people are directly responsible for expenditures. Of course, the professional politicians will fight that prospect with lies and every dirty trick in the book but the American people can prevail.

Let us not forget that during the 2004 presidential election, the candidates collectively amassed a war chest of over $2 billion. We know that the individuals, carpetbaggers, organizations and corporations don’t make these donations out of the goodness in their hearts. That’s when we, the citizens, get to take it on the chin in the form of government contracts and special legislation/bills that are decreed to reward these people for their excessive contributions.

In the late 1700s, a Scottish history professor, Alexander Tyler, studied the democracies that had existed until that time. He had this to say about democracy in general, “A democracy is always temporary in nature: it simple cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority will always vote for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, (which is) always followed by a dictatorship.”

Does this sound familiar? With almost one-third of all Americans feeding at the public trough, its only a matter of time before everyone receives some form of benefit and henceforth, the entire country will crash and burn with most likely a military dictatorship filling the void.

The professor went on to say: “The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, these nations always progressed through the following sequence:

From bondage to spiritual faith;

From spiritual faith to great courage;

From courage to liberty;

From liberty to abundance;

From abundance to complacency;

From complacency to apathy;

From apathy to dependence;

From dependency back into bondage.”

Does this not sound familiar! We’ve gone from being overtaxed slaves of King George of England, to a new republic that accepted any religious faith, to a wonderful new country with a brilliant constitution, to being the richest country in the world, to today 50% of the voters are apathetic to politics, to where a major portion of Americans are literally demanding government benefits, to eventually losing all of our freedoms (just read some parts of the Patriot Act). Many people, including myself, now believe that we are now at the “apathy to dependence” phase of the professor’s theory with over 30% of the nation’s population already having reached the “governmental dependency” phase.

Politically Correct Nonsense

Let me beat up on one issue, as a representative sample, that will let you know if you want to continue reading this book. I have absolutely no use for “political correctness” which in reality is just the communist Marxist-Leninist “classless society” in disguise, in which there are no classes. This is another nonsensical theory advocated by the left. Reality dictates that there will always be classes, regardless of how much these people in their ivory towers believe it can be eradicated through wishful thinking.

Refer to the chapter, ”Political Correctness and Other Stupidities,” for a thorough dissection of liberalism’s corpse.

Violations of the Constitution

Washington, Jefferson, Madison and Hamilton would be rolling over in their graves if they could see how brazenly and illegally distorted their brilliantly conceived concepts for a government, “Of the people and by the people….” has become. The specific text of the Constitution has deliberately been ignored or violated by a number of presidents ranging from Abraham Lincoln to Franklin Delano Roosevelt to Harry Truman to Lyndon Baines Johnson to Richard Nixon to further their own ends. The bastardization of the Constitution is fully explained in the chapter, “Violations of the Constitution.”

According to William Bailey, in “We Can Run, But We Cannot Hide,”

“In our short 200+ years of setting the example of what liberty and freedom are all about, we have moved further and further away from the very principles on which this nation was founded. We started as a nation built on the belief that, for the Republic to succeed, there should not be a strong, central Federal Government…”

Note the statement, “…there should not be a strong Federal government.” I try and imagine how many people have ignorantly deviated from many of the established institutions that are the backbone of this country. I can only surmise that these people who strongly support this course of action are probably younger, idealistic individuals who support these misguided concepts, and are not aware they are about to make the same mistakes that have been made before in other countries. I suspect that they are not familiar with that marvelous quote that imparts great wisdom,

“Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it.”

Not only have these individuals ignored our history and legal system, recently so have the state and Federal Supreme Courts. Numerous state Supreme Courts have ordered state governments to provide the already bloated education monopolies with substantially more monies, decisions that should rest in the hands of the legislature and by vote of the people themselves through local referendums.

This may sound like I’ve gone off the deep end, but in reality a careful review of the Constitution tells us that the Federal government has no business legislating or expending money on Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare, education, the space program, public works projects, farm subsidies, sports stadiums, fine art subsidies, regulations on large and small business and environmental protection, to name a few. My opinion is that all of these aforementioned issues are either none of the Federal government’s business or they are issues that should be addressed solely by state government or by local councils wherein you and I can vote directly on appropriations and direction. The critical issue here is that under our Founding Fathers, the primary responsibility of the Federal government was defense of the nation, “mob control” and a judicial system. Refer to my discussion of the Federalist Papers in the chapter, “The Foundation of American Government.” What this means is that the Constitution has been totally suborned by the politicians and lawyers, and I’m going to let the world know how crooked politicians have distorted the American way of life.

How Can We Change This Direction?

We can reverse the downward spiral of this great country. That’s why I wrote this book. The first step is all of us must get involved no matter how offbeat or revolutionary our political motives or disgust with present day political hacks may be.

By the time you finish this book, if you have liberal tendencies, you’ll be screaming, “He’s racist, bigoted and a Neanderthal!” If you have conservative tendencies, you’ll be screaming, “He’s a liberal, atheist and anti-American!” But I’m not going to leave you high and dry. The last chapter of the book, “How Can We Change America?” provides some simple but effective methods by which we Americans can make our voices heard by the politicians, and hopefully over the long run we can eliminate the politicians and return the “power to the people.” My explicit purpose is to get you really mad about the waste of our tax dollars and the loss of our moral direction and civil liberties. The chapters that follow are intended to do exactly that.

In actuality, I could care less whether you agree or disagree with my conclusions. I’m not worried about my ego being bruised. My concern is that you recognize that we are in deep trouble in this country. If you understand that premise, then I’m content that my message came across to some Americans, a people whom I care a great deal about. I suggest a soul-searching thought that all “apathetic” voters should weigh heavily. You owe it to your country to vote even if you vote for the lesser of two evils, or some off-the-wall candidate. But better yet, write-in your own candidate’s name (don’t forget, that’s perfectly acceptable) or even your dog’s name. It sends a message to the power brokers How about writing in the name of the Marquis DeSade? He loved to inflict pain but probably no more so than many elected representatives we’ve had in office to-date. So what do we have to lose by trying something other than the stereotypical Republican/Democratic party line?

If you are willing to keep an open mind and carefully analyze the massive failings in this country that I attest to within this book, read on and learn how you can make a difference.