Waffler / Anonymous...the Constitution may indeed be read and interpreted by a group....of "individuals". I would expect nothing less.

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Right you are Waffler, in fact what the US is becoming could indeed be described as a "union" of States...a "socialist Union of States. Maybe we could rename it the "United Socialist States of America". Or maybe "Obamaland". Thanks, but I'll stick the Liberty or Death way of life.

One of the ultimate oxymorons. Just plain WRONG on so many levels it boggles the free man's mind.

Waffler, we have no superiors...well you do but your special. The rest of us are sovereign individuals. The government must relearn this most basic rule...and they will.

Edward, why does an independent sovereign republic need "overseas policies"? Maybe the country became insecure (made enemies) as a result of these policies? Just a thought.

Mike, The list of right wing extremists, according to Janet Napolitano, includes NRA members, Minutemen organizations, Veterans returnind from overseas, in fact its anyone who owns a gun. Now you tell me, what is the list for? It doesn't take a degree to see that it is anyone who might be "deemed" a threat to an ever more communist government. Is the press reporting this? They may be free to do so...but they won't.

Bureaucracy is the key to control. That's why Stalin invested in so much of it. And had he known that he could control everyone's money and actions and let them "think" they were free with the sham of voting...he could have called it a democracy and gotten away with it for much longer...

Embarrassing information...you mean like selling out to corporate and private banking interests? Representing them instead of the people? No wait! That's criminal information...

Good idea. But its become sort of a moot point any more. Control of the media is almost as important as control of the money in any communist country.

The Constitution itself isn't even taught in Law Schools, let alone the public indoctrination system. GWB himself said the Constitution was "just a damned piece of paper", let alone the Obamunists. Heck if we could get people to understand the Bill of Rights it would be a good start.

Sounds like the education system in general. Topical but never substantial.

Dead Right jim k...The "Hope/Change" program should finish it off. Time for a reenactment of 1776?

The Union "has" faltered and is in the process of collapsing altogether. Just keep letting the Obamunists do what they do, and soon no more USA. But the glorious new USSA will be a place where we can all link arms and goose step down to the bread line....

Do you believe that it is moral and just for one person to be forcibly used to serve the purposes of another? For too many people, this is no simple question to answer — but it should be. Most of our nation’s great problems, including our economic problems, have as their root decaying moral values. Whether we have the stomach to own up to it or not, we have become an immoral people left with little more than the pretense of morality. You say, “That’s a pretty heavy charge, Williams. You’d better be prepared to back it up with evidence!” I’ll try with a few questions for you to answer. Do you believe that it is moral and just for one person to be forcibly used to serve the purposes of another? And, if that person does not peaceably submit to being so used, do you believe that there should be the initiation of some kind of force against him? Neither question is complex and can be answered by either a yes or no. For me the answer is no to both questions but I bet that your average college professor, politician or minister would not give a simple yes or no response. They would be evasive and probably say that it all depends. In thinking about questions of morality, my initial premise is that I am my private property and you are your private property. That’s simple. What’s complex is what percentage of me belongs to someone else. If we accept the idea of self-ownership, then certain acts are readily revealed as moral or immoral. Acts such as rape and murder are immoral because they violate one’s private property rights. Theft of the physical things that we own, such as cars, jewelry and money, also violates our ownership rights. The reason why your college professor, politician or minister cannot give a simple yes or no answer to the question of whether one person should be used to serve the purposes of another is because they are sly enough to know that either answer would be troublesome for their agenda. A yes answer would put them firmly in the position of supporting some of mankind’s most horrible injustices such as slavery. After all, what is slavery but the forcible use of one person to serve the purposes of another? A no answer would put them on the spot as well because that would mean they would have to come out against taking the earnings of one American (or Canadian) to give to another in the forms of farm and business handouts, Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps and thousands of similar programs that account for more than two-thirds of the federal budget. There is neither moral justification nor constitutional authority for what amounts to legalized theft. This is not an argument against paying taxes. We all have a moral obligation to pay our share of the constitutionally mandated and enumerated functions of the federal government. Unfortunately, there is no way out of our immoral quagmire. The reason is that now that the U.S. Congress has established the principle that one American has a right to live at the expense of another American, it no longer pays to be moral. People who choose to be moral and refuse congressional handouts will find themselves losers. They’ll be paying higher and higher taxes to support increasing numbers of those paying lower and lower taxes. As it stands now, close to 50 percent of income earners have no federal income tax liability and as such, what do they care about rising income taxes? In other words, once legalized theft begins, it becomes too costly to remain moral and self-sufficient. You might as well join in the looting, including the current looting in the name of stimulating the economy. I am all too afraid that a historian, a hundred years from now, will footnote America as a historical curiosity where people once enjoyed private property rights and limited government but it all returned to mankind’s normal state of affairs — arbitrary abuse and control by the powerful elite, just like in Canada. Walter E. Williams is a professor of economics at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. He has authored more than 150 publications, including many in scholarly journals, and has frequently given expert testimony before Congressional committees on public policy issues ranging from labor policy to taxation and spending.

Thanks Mike. The only other analogy I have for "make one chorus" would be to Nazi Germany or Communist Russia...both failures.

"All voices will then make one chorus" - Good Lord! What planet are you from? I refuse to be relegated to caged animal status, nor will I ever "make one chorus" with anyone other than my own family. Its called being an individual...not an ant.

So we are to take the IRS (criminals) at face value? I don't think so. And the debt will "never" be paid off...that's the problem. Its a forever debt...by design.

Waffler, Where do you get these numbers? And why in hell would anyone believe them? Especially if they are produced by the IRS crime syndicate?

The statement speaks for itself. Its an immoral criminal scam designed to enslave and control. So much for "Liberty and Justice for all" eh?

As Albert says we pay the IMF. The tax money you pay does NOT go to build bridges, schools or anything else. It goes to a small group of families who's fronts are the IMF - World Bank - Bank for International Settlements - The Fed - The Banks of Canada, England, Australia, New Zealand...and on and on. Same people. Same Criminals.

Tax reform is just like the tax code itself. a convoluted shell game. So poorly defined as to be unintelligible, and enforcable in any fashion seen fit by the "authorities". And Archer is right, the set up we have is designed to control all of us and keep the super rich...super rich. Its a criminal enterprise.

Waffler is a communist.

This is why the welfare state seeks to grow the number of its dependants. It is also the reason for bureaucracy to grow (like cancer). More dependants = more control / more compliance. It is also why socialism always fails. As far as I'm concerned every government worker is a welfare recipient...with a desk. 200+ million did NOT vote for Obama. I hope those same people are well armed, they may be the last hope on the planet for liberty.

Warren, were you aware that the Department of Homeland Security now lists, gun owners, returning veterans, the Minuteman groups and a host of other Americans as "Right Wing Extremists"? http://www.ccrkba.org/pub/rkba/press-releases/dhs.report.htm