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Old 11-08-2010, 06:25 PM   #1
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Default The one reform that could save the United States

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Old 11-08-2010, 06:34 PM   #2
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The only thing that will save us at this point is a constitutional amendment that requires the all federal/state/local guberments to balance the budget on a current basis. I won't say it will never happen, but I consider this extremely unlikely.
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Old 11-08-2010, 09:48 PM   #4
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Even that would not do it. If they could balance the budget while taxing us out of everything we make and own, we would still be screwed. The government needs to go back within the bounds of the Tenth Amendment. We all know it ain't gonna happen without the system being entirely destroyed first. So a major collapse is about our only hope. That, or revolution, and we have become too well domesticated for that.
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* I have the right to self-determination, thus I have the right to defend my liberty from tyrants who would take it from me.
* The only usable tools for these tasks are guns, and thus I have the right to shoot anyone who would take my guns from me.
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