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For more than 200 years, America reigned as the world's most productive, prosperous, powerful and generous nation on earth. Like all nations, America is nothing more or less than the sum of its people and their belief system.

In the case of Americans, they were once a people who had risked all to gain national independence and sovereignty, individual liberty and personal freedom for every man, woman and child. Generation after generation volunteered the blood of its best citizens to protect individual rights from all who would attack them in the name of some greater common good.

The brave who demanded to be free, understood that there is no good on earth greater than that of individual freedom and thousands of good men have died preserving those freedoms for others.

Today, these ideas are capturing the imaginations of people around the world who have never known freedom, thanks to the American spirit still alive and well in the American soldier, who still offers his life to provide freedom for complete strangers all over the world.

In America, these Same Ideas are Dying

Many Americans have bought into a greater good sold as "economic equality." This is the cancer that is bringing freedom's reign to an end. The quest for political power to rule over the lives of others has driven politicians to seek ever increasing power over what were once private earned resources.

Individual votes have been divided into voting blocs and those blocs are purchased with ideologically driven gifts from the treasury. As Thomas Jefferson pointed out so well, "A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine." It's called Democratic Socialism today. (web site)

America is at the Tipping Point

Jefferson warned, "I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."

Yet by 2008, our government has perfected the art of wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them. This is what our government does best and what most modern politicians sell from the campaign stump today.

Karl Marx's idea, that "each must give according to his ability; so that each can be given according to his need," has taken root in the most unlikely of places, America. As American soldiers die to guarantee others around the world, the right to individual self-determination, average Americans back home are trading their individual right of self-determination for an alleged greater good, the right to the earnings of others, in the name of economic equality.

Americans are passing their individual powers to define and pursue individual economic conditions to the state, the federal bureaucracy, under the guise of a greater communal good, whereby the state becomes the central arbiter of individual worth. The lawful earnings of some are confiscated, for the alleged betterment of others.

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