jim, on the surface it seems a woprthy thought...but as head of my family and household, I have to wonder what possessions I am to divest in order to meet this noble ideal and put myself on par with the free and noble "cow". lol

Is he condemning the natural drive and desire of people to improve and safegaurd their lives? What "possessions" is he referring to? My house? My truck? My rifle? My refrigerator? This seems a covert attack on the right to property.

Sorry Reston, but the 1% you allude to is directly tied to the Government you think will solve the problem, that they themselves created. Liberty is not achieved with "more" Government. But the miserable tenets of Socialism certainly are.

Here's a word for you dick..."denial". Look it up. :)

The greatest fault of the education system is NOT teaching children the real meaning of their American heritage. NOT teaching them morality. And then indoctrinating them with socialist idealism. No wonder they come out of school unprepared for real life in the real world.

The exalted one seems to dread inquiries into his birth status...wonder why?

By wiping the slate clean and reinventing the juduicary on all levels, I think that Liberty can be regained, and for a while remain pure. Then in another hundred years it will have to be reinvented again. But since typically the people at the top of the corrupt heap are unwilling to relinquish their spot at the trough, it's not going to be easy...

Vice and corrution are by products of any government system. Which is exactly why, in their amazing wisdom and foresight, the founders gave us a Constitution to limit the avarice of centralized power. Socialism and Communism are not the answer either as they are actually based on theft and immorality.

Born Free...a novel concept. And unheard of for many generations now. That is, now that we are viewed as "inventory". Restore the Republic.

Collectivist thinking is the antithesis of Individual Liberty, Freedom and Personal Responsibility. Restore the Constitutionally limited Republic.

"THE RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED"....There's no confusion there at all Reston. :)

Restore the Republic.

It's almost as though he knew the Constitution would be "interpreted" away...

What's your point Steven? It's "the rich" that are responsible? How about the COMMUNISTIC Government that enables their Corporate pals a Cronyist system in which to be corrupt...right alongside the Government itself. ? You're obviously a recent product of the Government school system who hasn't lived long enough to know real history or understand what is going on today.

PS Steven, Since you think the idea of the 10 Planks of the Communist manifesto being implemented in the US is a "joke"...let's hear you refute this:

First Plank: Abolition of property in land and the application of all rents of land to public purposes. (Zoning - Model ordinances proposed by Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover widely adopted. Supreme Court ruled "zoning" to be "constitutional" in 1921. Private owners of property required to get permission from government relative to the use of their property. Federally owned lands are leased for grazing, mining, timber usages, the fees being paid into the U.S.. Treasury.)

Second Plank: A heavy progressive or graduated income tax. (Corporate Tax Act of 1909. The 16th Amendment, allegedly ratified in 1913. The Revenue Act of 1913, section 2, Income Tax. These laws have been purposely misapplied against American citizens to this day.)

Third Plank: Abolition of all rights of inheritance. (Partially accomplished by enactment of various state and federal "estate tax" laws taxing the "privilege" of transferring property after death and gift before death.)

Fourth Plank: CONFISCATION OF THE PROPERTY OF ALL EMIGRANTS AND REBELS. (The confiscation of property and persecution of those critical - "rebels" - of government policies and actions, frequently accomplished by prosecuting them in a courtroom drama on charges of violations of non-existing administrative or regulatory laws.)

Fifth Plank: Centralization of credit in the hands of the State, by means of a national bank with State capital and an exclusive monopoly. (The Federal Reserve Bank, 1913 - the system of privately owned Federal Reserve banks which maintain a monopoly on the valueless debt "money" in circulation.)

Sixth Plank: Centralization of the means of communications and transportation in the hands of the State. (Federal Radio Commission, 1927; Federal Communications Commission, 1934; Air Commerce Act of 1926; Civil Aeronautics Act of 1938; Federal Aviation Agency, 1958; becoming part of the Department of Transportation in 1966; Federal Highway Act of 1916 (federal funds made available to States for highway construction); Interstate Highway System, 1944 (funding began 1956); Interstate Commerce Commission given authority by Congress to regulate trucking and carriers on inland waterways, 1935-40; Department of Transportation, 1966.)

Seventh Plank: Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the State, the bringing into cultivation of waste lands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan. (Department of Agriculture, 1862; Agriculture Adjustment Act of 1933 -- farmers will receive government aid if and only if they relinquish control of farming activities; Tennessee Valley Authority, 1933 with the Hoover Dam completed in 1936.)

Eighth Plank: Equal liability of all to labor. Establishment of industrial armies especially for agriculture. (First labor unions, known as federations, appeared in 1820. National Labor Union established 1866. American Federation of Labor established 1886. Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 placed railways under federal regulation. Department of Labor, 1913. Labor-management negotiations sanctioned under Railway Labor Act of 1926. Civil Works Administration, 1933. National Labor Relations Act of 1935, stated purpose to free inter-state commerce from disruptive strikes by eliminating the cause of the strike. Works Progress Administration 1935. Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, mandated 40-hour work week and time-and-a-half for overtime, set "minimum wage" scale. Civil Rights Act of 1964, effectively the equal liability of all to labor.)

Ninth Plank: Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries, gradual abolition of the distinction between town and country, by a more equitable distribution of population over the country. (Food processing companies, with the cooperation of the Farmers Home Administration foreclosures, are buying up farms and creating "conglomerates.")

Tenth Plank: Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children's factory labor in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production. (Gradual shift from private education to publicly funded began in the Northern States, early 1800's. 1887: federal money (unconstitutionally) began funding specialized education. Smith-Lever Act of 1914, vocational education; Smith-Hughes Act of 1917 and other relief acts of the 1930's. Federal school lunch program of 1935; National School Lunch Act of 1946. National Defense Education Act of 1958, a reaction to Russia's Sputnik satellite demonstration, provided grants to education's specialties. Federal school aid law passed, 1965, greatly enlarged federal role in education, "head-start" programs, textbooks, library books.

Thanks Steven. Goes to show that even well spoken people can be ignorant progressives who care not at all for America's well being. Back to the fields with you sheep! You have work to do for "greater good" lol ;-)

And isn't that what the politics of the day has become? Smear campaigns and nothing but...reminds me of a bunch of spoiled children all pointing at each other saying he's worse than I am. The quote is also a good reference as to why Democracy is Mob Rule. Restore the Republic!

Apparently not! We've gone way beyond mere "encroachments". We've adopted all 10 planks of the Communist Manifesto as the underlying form of Government we now suffer.

I just wanted to speak to you about something from the Internal Revenue Code. It is the last sentence of section 509A of the code and it reads: 'For purposes of paragraph 3, an organization described in paragraph 2 shall be deemed to include an organization described in section 501C-4, 5, or 6, which would be described in paragraph 2 if it were an organization described in section 501C-3.' And that's just one sentence out of those fifty-seven feet of books. ~ Ronald Reagan

Reston obviously sees her fellow man as nothing more than a troop of apes to be whipped into shape. The arrogance is astounding.

You're right about that jim, the tax code in and of itself is just a bunch of circular gobbledy gook designed to deflect and confuse. It doesn't make sense at all...on any level. It is a document of theft by law.

Government is indeed a parasite when left to its own ends. This was well known by the Founding Father's and this is why they gave us the Constitution. There exists now a direct correlation between general corruption and the abandonment of the founding principles. End the Fed, Restore the Republic.

Well said Henry Hazlitt ! In the same vein Churchill quite rightly said, "Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery."...I'll take Liberty and responsibility for myself over that miserable existence every time.

Mike, further to that thought...GE is moving their North American HQ here to Calgary. It's under construction right now.

Waffler? *crickets* ;-)