"All the perplexities, confusion, and distress in America arise, not from defects in the Constitution or Confederation, nor from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit, and circulation."
- John Adams

 

How about we STOP putting people in power who despise both the citizens and the country to which they took an oath to serve!

 

Congratulations, you have won APC for the day!

 

“Some see private enterprise as a predatory target to be shot, others as a cow to be milked, but few are those who see it as a sturdy horse pulling the wagon.”

Winston Churchill

 

"Nations are not ruined by one act of violence, but gradually and in an almost imperceptible manner by the depreciation of their circulating currency, through its excessive quantity..."

Nicholaus Copernicus

 

"The same undisciplined government spending and social engineering that has undermined our economy over the past 30 years has also been tearing at the social fabric of this land."
-Stockwell Day

 

What we teach our children today will foretell what a nation will become in the future and at this point I dare say it looks damn bleak .

 

What, you mean parents shouldn't be telling their brats they should get and have whatever their little hearts desire without working for it---and that everyone in the universe should fall at their feet at their requests????

 

The object of this Essay is to assert one very simple principle, as entitled to govern absolutely the dealings of society with the individual in the way of compulsion and control, whether the means used be physical force in the form of legal penalties, or the moral coercion of public opinion. That principle is, that the sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively, in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number, is self-protection. That the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant. He cannot rightfully be compelled to do or forbear because it will be better for him to do so, because it will make him happier, because, in the opinions of others, to do so would be wise, or even right. These are good reasons for remonstrating with him, or reasoning with him, or persuading him, or entreating him, but not for compelling him, or visiting him with any evil in case he do otherwise. To justify that, the conduct from which it is desired to deter him, must be calculated to produce evil to some one else. The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.

John Stuart Mill