Each of the following 5 articles, describe (clearly) the issues "we the people" face today. Oh, and nevermind the pop-psychology telling you to ignore "negativity" too.
This is your life!
Choose instead, to be aware and able to manage your future, regardless of outcome.
Socialist America Sinking by Patrick J. Buchanan
Taxes drove the American Revolution, for we were a taxaphobic, liberty-loving people. That government is best that governs least is an Americanism. When “Silent Cal” Coolidge went home in 1929, the U.S. government was spending 3 percent of gross domestic product.
“The United States is declining as a nation and a world power with mostly sighs and shrugs to mark this seismic event,” writes Les Gelb, president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations, in CFR’s Foreign Affairs magazine. “Astonishingly, some people do not appear to realize that the situation is all that serious.”
Even the establishment is starting to get the message.
America Closing Her Door to Freedom by Dr. Douglas Young
We so feared a Stalin or Hitler that we ignored endless assaults on our liberty by idealistic home-grown statists and the seductive narcotic of ever more government goodies buying our acquiescence. What makes Americans' surrender to statism so shameful is that we freely chose this course in direct contravention of our founding principles.
Why has our liberty eroded so badly? Statist public schools have long taught that equality (of results) and "social justice" trump freedom since liberty is the handmaiden of "selfish" individualists harming "the community." As we've grown affluent, there's more desire to protect everyone from risk, and our burgeoning welfare state demands ever more of our economic liberty. Plus, as societies get more secular, they become more socialist (see Western Europe).
Meanwhile too many liberty-loving Americans are so ensconced in busy private lives that they neglect their public duties. But Jefferson warned that "The price of liberty is eternal vigilance." Never forget that we are the heirs of the most libertarian, God-fearing revolutionaries in history.
Printing money will lead to serious problems down the road says Jim Rogers
Rogers is clearly unhappy with the massive monetary easing the Fed has engineered under Chairman Ben Bernanke and he sees inflation and a currecy [sic] crisis as a result of these policies.
“Printing money has been tried many times throughout history in many countries,” he said. “It has never worked in the long term; it has never worked in the medium-term. Occasionally, it has worked in the short term.”
“Printing money is going to lead to serious problems down the road,” Rogers added.
Quantum Weirdness by Dr. Jack Wheeler
The Alice-in-Wonderland quality of sub-atomic physics is called quantum weirdness. It was in response to such weirdness that Bohr's contemporary scientist J.B.S. Haldane (1892-1964) claimed "the Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose."
Today, however, the concept of quantum weirdness seems also to apply to politics in America ... For the first time in US history, we have a president who hates his own country. A president who is on the side of America's enemies, not on the side of America.
We have a media who reveres and worships as a demi-god a president who hates his, and their, country.
We have a government spending trillions of dollars it does not have in a seemingly determined effort to destroy everyone's life savings via inflation.
Revolutions are chaotic, dangerous things. We were blessed-by-Providence lucky in our first one in 1776 ... Which will we get in the coming Second American Revolution?
We will emerge out the other side of it with either more freedom or more fascism. You can bet it will be the latter unless there is a planned, concerted, purposeful, and organized effort to secure the former.
Advocates of freedom in America have an extraordinary advantage over the advocates of fascism: the legal foundation of the country, the Constitution. But will they take that advantage?
The Austrians Were Right by Ron Paul
Today, a major economic crisis is unfolding. New government programs are started daily, and future plans are being made for even more ... Many are saying we need an international answer to our problems with the establishment of a world central bank and a single fiat reserve currency. These suggestions are merely more of the same policies that created our mess and are doomed to fail.
Who’s being ignored? The Austrian free-market economists—the very ones who predicted not only the Great Depression, but the calamity we’re dealing with today. If the crisis was predictable and is explainable, why did no one listen?
The choice we face is ominous: We either accept world-wide authoritarian government holding together a flawed system, OR we restore the principles of the Constitution, limit government power, restore commodity money without a Federal Reserve system, reject world government, and promote the cause of peace by protecting liberty equally for all persons. Freedom is the answer.
