freedombecki
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Thank you for your post, C_Clayton_Jones, and I realize it is crystal clear the outcome, but we are so enthusiastic about the Bill of Rights and freedom that when people come along who try to make government do more than the constitution requires, we try to rein in the spending that is the hallmark of a government that devotes too much money on selected members of an oligarchy. We started off with just people who didn't have much and lost confidence in a monarch who wouldn't bother himself to listen to common folk on other shores who simply wanted a hearing of issues as we saw it, and overlords were part of the problem to start with--overlords who were unsympathetic to the people who were regarded as little more than serfs.Although essentially correct I wouldn’t go so far as to call it ‘fascism.’Not only that this republican party since 1980 has added a serious touch of facism to their portfolio that which forcibly suppress opposition and criticism, regimenting all industry, commerce, etc., and emphasizing an aggressive nationalism. Turning all our tax dollars over to corporate america = facism in my definition.
Since the 60s, certainly, we’ve seen an increase in authoritarianism in conservative dogma.
Big government is too like what we broke away from 236 years ago. And the people who run it want more than taxpayers are willing to pay. Also, the "Middle Class" is composed of proud, contributing American citizens. We are not particularly excited about extracting excessive taxes from other Americans, because a free market requires that people have some spending money to keep it going.
We're not going to let someone with a book that the failing EU founded its tax-and-spending policies upon followed, only to be eaten from within with too many problems people got along for the past few eons by solving their own problems.
In fact, we think the American founders got it exactly right, and we're not blinded by people who go buy a seat in Congress so they can funnel money from taxpayers to their own families and purse.
If protecting what our forefathers fought and died for means we have to be a little "authoritarian," you ain't seen nothing yet. We will take the predators out of Congress like Nancy Pelosi, who spends all her focus on setting up deals to leave taxpayers holding the bag if her beloved or nephews want to make a shaky half-billion dollar or better loan for a business than has never proved to succeed financially. We need to get rid of the Golden Parachute Gang. Soon.
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