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Excellent question, which, of course, brings to mind Thomas Jefferson’s comment that “the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants”. 

 

The question of when this will happen is, I think, largely a function of mass psychology. Right now the masses are still living at the height of complacency, oblivious to the fact that the bus is about to hurtle over the cliff. That bus, of course, is being driven by the nitwits, idiots and morons in

 

Unfortunately, history tells us that it takes cataclysmic events to move people from complacency to action. (As I like to say, revolutions are started on empty stomachs.) History also tells us that an early and necessary component of cataclysmic social change is financial calamity. Only after this country is ruined by a bankrupt federal government (and I mean a real bankruptcy, not the de facto kind we have now), will people feel compelled to water

 

So, When does it start?, you ask? How about now?  

 

Keep in mind that the fall of the

 

As for my part, I won’t be the first person to shoot my congressman – I don’t look good in an orange jumpsuit. But, like Samuel Adams and his associates, I won’t shed a tear for the treasonous and tyrannical when the masses awake from their collective, complacent delusion and decide the tyrants’ fates. 

 

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This one’s been talked about – mostly as an election year fantasy used strategically by the swine known as our elected officials to get re-elected. While this one might not be necessary if the income tax were reduced to 3% by an Amendment of its own, it wouldn’t hurt to have some extra insurance. 

 

In my opinion, the single biggest danger presented to this country by our government today is its increasing propensity to go broke. The bankruptcy of the United States government may take another 50 or 100 years – but probably not. Based on the drunken-sailor spending habits and the inevitable economic downturn, it may just happen within the next ten to twenty years. (In fact, the process has already started as you can see by the continued deterioration of the dollar against almost all other currencies. Remember what was once said about the decline of the Roman Empire: It was not an event, it was a process. Unfortunately, from a governmental perspective, this process is well under way in America.)    

 

A balanced budget amendment should have an exception allowing for deficit spending only in the case of war – as constitutionally declared by a three-fifths super-majority of Congress. (With no additional ear-marks tacked on by politicans.)