America needs a “New Revolution” to minimize government intrusion
America, we need to start a “New Revolution”, a revolution to minimize the intrusion of government into our everyday lives. It is vital for the citizens of The United States of America to recognize two factors that will accomplish this:
1) We need to pass the Fair Tax Act. What is the Fair Tax? The FairTax plan is a comprehensive proposal that replaces all federal income and payroll based taxes with an integrated approach including a progressive national retail sales tax, a prebate to ensure no American pays federal taxes on spending up to the poverty level, dollar-for-dollar federal revenue neutrality, and, through companion legislation, the repeal of the 16th Amendment.
* Enables workers to keep their entire paychecks
* Enables retirees to keep their entire pensions
* Refunds in advance the tax on purchases of basic necessities
* Allows American products to compete fairly
* Brings transparency and accountability to tax policy
* Ensures Social Security and Medicare funding
* Closes all loopholes and brings fairness to taxation
* Abolishes the IRS
Bill Archer, former head of House Ways and Means Committee did a survey on the fair tax. The survey was conducted among 500 European companies. One simple question was asked, ” What would you do if the U.S. installed the FairTax.” The responses where astounding. Four hundred said they would build their next plant here. The remaining one hundred said they would move their corporate headquarters here. My guess is that this would be just the tip of the iceberg as to what would follow. Our current tax code does the exact opposite. Product labels would contain the same foreign corporate names but the labels would also contain ” MADE IN THE U.S.A.”
For more info on the Fair Tax. Link.
2) We need to set Congressional term limits. Why term limits? This is the issue that separates American citizens, who want to recapture their government, from a careerist-dominated Congress and its illegitimate bureaucratic offspring, who want to run our lives. No more pork barreling!
For more info on term limits. Link.
To contact your congressman click here.
To enact the Fair Tax and unleash the full economic potential of the U.S., we must apply Vocal and Persistent pressure on Congress each week or every day. Email them this simple message: “Please support replacing the federal income tax code and become a co-sponsor of HR 25 or S 1025, the Fair Tax.”
To enact Congressional term limits email this simple message each week or everyday: “As an American citizen, I feel that Congress, whose arrogant spending has bankrupted our nation and destroyed our currency, who sets its own self-authored six-figure pay plus perquisites and pensions as if compensation were to be calculated based on its irresponsible spending rather than on prudent governance and has created a counter-productive envy-based tax system which penalizes extra effort and success, can no longer be tolerated. We need to pass a Constitutional Amendment for Congressional term limits.”
I recently did a blog on a small country in Europe, Estonia, and America can certainly learn a lesson from this little, but prosperous country. Link.
I would also like to create a petition to give to Congress on the FairTax Act, Congressional term limits and voting power to vote elected officials out of office.
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June 29th, 2008 at 7:24 pm
Great idea Kevin, however you can’t rely on Congress to enact these changes. We need a complete new start, these career politicians are not going to enact laws that hurt them and their constituents. We need a new American Revolution that fires all these corrupt lawmakers and ensures fair and trustworthy elections. Relying on corrupt politicians to prevent corruption is like asking a criminal to go to jail; ain’t gonna happen!
June 29th, 2008 at 8:39 pm
Kevin, what you describe is not a revolution, just a sideways tweaking of the current corrupt system. Why do you want to give the Federal Govt ANY MONEY AT ALL? They just use it against you. Taxes on labor = SLAVERY. Yet your biggest hope is to be a slave with slightly less paperwork. Pathetic.
June 30th, 2008 at 10:03 am
Our goal of NO TAXES will not and cannot be reached without being done in incremental stages. Passage of the FairTax could be the first step towards that goal. Kevin is absolutely right about what needs to be done. With 72 current sponsors in congress, the FairTax already has great national awareness and acceptance. Although the main thoughts of the Libertarian party are just and admirable they are, for the most part, beyond the comprehension of the average citizen.
There are many different groups trying to get congress to listen to them. None to date have been as successful as the FairTax supporters. If all these groups including the Libertarian Party would unite to get the FairTax passed, this would be the first step in returning power to the people. Once the people get the FairTax passed, that same unified front could work on other things, such as term limits. The” It will never happen” mindset must be changed to “let’s get it done”. Any viable member of the Libertarian Party should know that it was a relatively small percentage of Americans that actually wanted to revolt against England. When members of congress feel their jobs are in jeopardy, then they listen to the people. If they think their jobs are safe they could care less. The Democrats and the Republicans unite against us, We The People. We must unite against them !
Our stance, meaning the Libertarian Party, sometimes reminds me of a little child trying to hold it’s breath till it gets what it wants. Let’s not hold our breath. Let’s scream until the FairTax is law. Then we’ll scream again and again till our Founding Fathers hear us.
June 30th, 2008 at 6:27 pm
Ron Paul has been an advocate for no taxes. Join the Revolution. http://www.ronpaulforpresident2008.com/news/
http://www.ronpaul2008.com/issues/debt-and-taxes/
June 30th, 2008 at 9:31 pm
Sounds good to me, the only problem is getting it implemented. Fat chance that will happen.
July 1st, 2008 at 5:23 pm
Your term limit question did not include the option I prefer, no artificial arbitrary term limits.
We already have term limits, we call them Elections. Any arbitrary term limits besides that would be an unnecessary limit on my ability to vote for who I want to vote for. I think this is a freedom of speech issue, term limits are an unconstitutional limit on my rights as a voter.
July 2nd, 2008 at 6:35 am
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July 2nd, 2008 at 10:22 am
Amy,
Since you prefer the current system, may I ask you if you are aware of the adverse affect the 17th amendment has had on this country?
July 2nd, 2008 at 10:26 am
Eric,
I’m well aware of what Ron Paul supports. I’m also aware of how he was trashed by the media. Did you read my previous post? Stop holding your breath and start screaming. Let’s get the FairTax passed first. Then we can start on no taxes.
July 5th, 2008 at 8:04 pm
We got to revolt. Too many restrictions on personal liberties have taken away our supposed “rights” as Americans. Nobody seems to give a damn though. We are more comfortable being “secure” in our lives with all the Goddamn safety nets there are, than to be free. Nobody is willing to fight, or at least not enough are. This is horse shit, the way you can’t do a Goddamn thing without government intrusion. WTF, I only got one life to live and it aint any good living it in chains.
July 6th, 2008 at 4:24 pm
Idiots of ignorance. Your Neo Conservative - Neo Liberal - Milton Friedman ideology will never work in the real world. Your as bad as the Utopian Communist idealists. The world is not simple and simple ideas fail when you scale it up to modern standards.
The fact is, all modern successful Governments and societies use mixed economies that factor in common sense social programs for human compassion, self-preservation law enforcement and regulation to preserve fairness and balance for each individual.
Without common sense approaches that take in all of man’s good and bad driving emotions we would end up with extremism that will always benefits but a few. As any student of history can see.
John Adams framed our Government
July 10th, 2008 at 11:06 pm
That’s a very silly idea.
Imagine the nightmare of the tax enforcement bureaucrats tracking every purchase everyone makes so they can effect this progressive, graduated sales tax.
The only solution is no taxes and a thorough strengthening of the Constitution along with the dismantling of all government functions not explicitly mandated by the US Constitution.
The prosperity and freedom that would come alive in this environment is indescribable. We became the richest nation in the world very quickly in a much more technically limited time because we were free. In todays world of technological wonder our economic growth and improvement of life beyond our wildest dreams. America would once again be the most admired country in the world.
With the internet people around the world will see what freedom brings and affect change in their own countries. This never happened in the past due to the lack of easy communication and access to information. In an online world change happens infinitely faster than in the past.
You’re all welcome to say I’m an idealist or just plain wrong but why would you? Even if it’s 1% as good as I think it would be it’s still well worth making happen. So do something, anything you can to spread the word of what could possibly be our future and maybe we’ll call get lucky.
October 4th, 2008 at 10:01 pm
I agree 100% its time for a new Revolution. I mean a real revolution, not some contract with America crap. It’s time we formed a new Citizen Military armed ourselves to the hilt and crashed the big party in Washington, hanging everyone of the traitors who have torn this nation down. There are only a handful of politicians in Washington who should not be hung. We need to tear the government apart and start over. The Federal governments only duty is National Defense period, everything else should start at the State level and lower. If Obama gets elected we must start the revolution before he is in office takes control of our military and allows Islamic Terrorist to flood this nation. If we are afraid to do this then we must force our states to secede from the Union. Something must be done NOW! The cold winds of tyranny are upon us.
December 19th, 2008 at 6:03 pm
All of these suggestions are valid but way to little way too late. You are talking about bailing out the titanic with a tin can here. We are unarmed asking the guys with the guns to “put the weapons down or else”. They have all of the power. Why on earth would they give up anything? During the revolution of the 1770’s we were forced into making a decision. This was something that people were committed to and believed in. We don’t believe in anything in this country anymore. As long as our master keeps Wal-Mart open and keeps feeding us we are content. We have reality TV, why do we need liberty? Change will not come from a fake politician or hope that our current system will suddenly correct itself unprovoked.
Change will only come from civil unrest, forcing people out of office, dismantling essential infrastructure, and MAKING change.
Soon, things in this country will disintegrate to a point that people awaken from their apathy and change will begin. This is happening in Greece and other places in the world. We in America simply just do not have the intestinal fortitude to take the steps necessary to affect change.
I am personally keeping my ear to the ground waiting for the modern day “shot heard round the world”. Something has to act as a catalyst.
For those who believe that we cannot stand against our current system just look at the Iraqi’s. After we invaded their country they adapted very well against our technologically advanced Armed forces. I know, I was there, twice. Victory comes from deep seated desire to defend something not from a paycheck or a mission statement. I can guarantee you that every one of the Iraq’s I saw every day wanted to kill me way more than I wanted to kill them. I was ordered to be there, they were defending their families and their county. How many Americans do you know that would be willing to strap a bomb to their waist and walk into the enemy? We aren’t even willing to stop on the side of the road and help an old lady with a flat tire.
On the day when our “representatives” in government took some of the 700 billion dollars that they stole from us and gave it to a private industry who couldn’t balance the books I ask, what is it going to take?
January 7th, 2009 at 9:10 am
this was a great country.But the revolution did not come about as soon as the brits landed here. It was their children/grandchildren. Start raising your children to revolt. Teach them/ tell them the ugly, angry, feeling hurting truth. No more lies. that means the fairy tales of the past must die with us. One of the most powerful if not THE most powerful tool of the oppressers is religon.It must go the way of the dodo. I am not saying destroy faith. Just destroy the lies. It is time for a true revolution, For this to happen all of the comforts that keep the majority quiet need to be destroyed. This is Key. I belive that will make us stronger. We ALL have grown weak sucking on the tit of the fat bloated corporation government. We ween our selfs off and our children will be free of that sleep inducing milk. Then true change can happen. I would love for it to happen now but for it to be effective must be instilled into our children. Save our children from corporate slavery, we will be slaves till our children free us and themselves.
January 10th, 2009 at 3:29 pm
It if far to late for a revolution. The only real way to end this mess is to stop having children. Without people there is no need for government. This government has been using it’s citizens as slaves for decades. This democracy is only set up for the super rich and powerfull.
January 16th, 2009 at 1:57 am
ITS TO LATE….WE CANT….FAT CHANCE……CANT BE SAVED
IM GLAD THOSE BEFORE US DID NOT HAVE THIS ATTITUDE
OR WE WOULD NOT HAVE A COUNTRY TO TAKE BACK
IN THE BEGINNING OF A CHANGE THE PATRIOT IS A SCARCE MAN, AND BRAVE,
AND HATED AND SCORNED. WHEN HIS CAUSE SUCCEEDS, THE TIMID JOIN HIM,
FOR THEN IT COST NOTHING TO BE A PATRIOT.
MARK TWAIN
IF WE GIVE UP HOW WILL WE EVER
BE ABLE TO LOOK OUR CHILDREN IN
THE EYES WHEN THEY ASK WHAT
WE DOING THAT WAS MORE
IMPORTANT THAN PRESERVING
THEIR FREEDOM.
January 24th, 2009 at 11:33 am
All the talk in this world isnt gonna change anything! Its time for someone to step up and find away to bring us all together to fight for our true America!Action not words is what is needed!!!!!!!
February 12th, 2009 at 4:27 pm
Only one way to radically change the governments direction. It cannot be done through peace talks and mediation. Blood is the only way real change can occur. You are all kidding yourselves if you think anything will change. You have two choices. 1. You ignore the signs and hope your disneyland life continues or 2. Buy all the guns and munitions you can get your hands on. Learn to make IED’s. All the information you could ever want is at your finger tips… google will teach you all you need to know. I myself choose option 2.
Have a great day… Just remember your running out of time.
PS. If you are reading this that meant it got approved… I highly doubt they will let my comment post, wouldn’t want to be seen as radicals:)
February 18th, 2009 at 4:25 pm
Right on Brian. Now we need to find a way of getting united.
March 24th, 2009 at 12:57 pm
TLFT = Term Limits; Fair Tax = Today’s Liberation From Tyranny
April 10th, 2009 at 12:29 am
How will this happen you ask? Just look inside and the answer will come to you. We all agree that the government took a step in the right direction in 1776, but they still had factions who were loyal to the procedures of late 18th century Britain. There were some, right after we won against King George III, who wanted to model our ECONOMY from the very enemy we were revolting against. Just look at your next $10 bill. There was a recognized fight against this sort of economical taxation philosophy. There were political manifestos, campaigning, and eventually duels resulting in death that resulted from these governmental fame vs freedom factions. This war debt never ending spending is a lesson in SERFDOM 101. It ensures a never ending tax (FEDERAL) that takes just enough, with key interest rate tweeks by the FEDERAL RESERVE, to keep 90% of population just above water until the FEDERAL RESERVE funders yank out the money to start every recession, depression, downturn, corporate downsize, etc..which in turn causes everyone to take losses. But the minority who has vast wealth will hold out longer. That allows the 10% of worldly wealth holders to keep their STRANGLEHOLD on the 90% slaves. Is there a new hybrid government that we can mutate this 1776 step in the right direction? Could it be some sort of SOCIAL ANARCHISM? Possibly. It may not be a bad thing to have organized ANARCHY. Or maybe civilized ANARCHY would be a better term. Tell your children not to swallow this marshmallow sugar coated corporate revisionist history that has been status quo since the industrial revolution. Tell your children how to question authority and still keep virtuous. VIRTUE is key. Who do you think is directing all the internet PORN traffic? Who controls this new mind candy industry? Have you read your local COUNTERINTELLIGENCE reports lately brought to you by our friendly CIA? Stay virtuous and it will win out against the corrupt corporatiocongrepresidenjudicial behemoth. The time will come.
April 15th, 2009 at 7:14 am
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April 23rd, 2009 at 5:10 pm
Yeah I don’t see a revolution here, just more political jargon. The american revolution was NOT A WAR. The american revolution was the change from “no taxation without representation” (which was appeasement to the king) to “deriving just powers from the consent of the governed” (a complete break with past tradition.) Lowering taxes is not a revolution, by any means.
April 23rd, 2009 at 8:24 pm
I see it a bit differently. In my opinion the Revolutionary War was exactly that. The war was fought to overcome the British collecting taxes without giving the people a voice. Taxation without representation.
The unrest that is thus far just political rhetoric is not just about eliminating or lowering taxes. It is, in fact, the people of America speaking out about their dissatisfaction with unbridled Federal spending, willful disregard for the Constitution, politicians who do not represent the will of the people that put them in office, and a government that is unwilling to provide secure borders for it’s Citizens.
The Revolutionaries spent months, if not years, having quiet meetings in back rooms and pubs before they actually took their dedication and convictions to the British. I firmly believe it will happen again. Sooner than one might think.
The election process is a great process but special interests, corruption, and the elimination of the common person from the process have nullified real results. It is time for a fresh start. It is time to get back to what made this country what it was in the first place.
I do not believe it is a revolution. It is civil unrest and will ultimately result in civil uprising if not war. I don’t need to quote Thomas Jefferson or any of his contemporaries to make my point here. Everyone who believes in this country and the Constitution already knows what our Founding Fathers had to say about an oppressive government. They laid the foundation for a great government and cautioned about what would be necessary to guarantee it’s continued existence.
When elected officials take it upon themselves to ignore the Constitution just because they feel there is a mandate by their very election it is time to begin anew. When elections become about a specific political party winning, without regard to the responsibilities bestowed on them after the election, it is time to start anew. It is time to remind the government that they represent us, the populace, not special interest and certainly not the rest of the world.
Since FDR and his New Deal we have been much like someone hitting the snooze button over and over. We get the idea that sooner or later we have to wake-up but we choose to put it off for later. Well, it is later. It is time to wake the hell up people. We are already late but maybe, just maybe, not too late.
June 15th, 2009 at 12:31 am
I found this site by googling “new revolution.” I googled that out of desperation, the desire to find something hopeful on the subject. But blogging about it isn’t going to bring about a proportionate needed reaction to rising tyranny. Neither is violence. Our govt’s military is too strong. The sad truth (sorry to have to say this) is that it is too late. we have “overslept.” The “revolution” has already begun, its just not us who’s driven into battle. While we were either complaining, or partying, the “call to battle” went unheard. Why did it go unheard? Because our battle cry is against THEIR “revolution.” This nation is being driven by those who are in control to new evolution, the very evolution we are against.
I know its a hard pill to swallow. But while we were disco dancing in the 80’s, globalization slipped onto the dancefloor in the 90’s. They had the big picture. we didn’t. We were too busy “hoping” for change in a system of government that had long ago planned it’s “revolution.” So, Welcome to the Real Revolution.
June 21st, 2009 at 10:28 pm
It is really time to stop hoping for change in America , and to remove what restricts us from grouping together as a unified power and effecting the needed programs or laws that will put politicians back to where they would serve the public and not themselves.
They are really a powerless lot if we can only muster the strength and determination to remove the deadbeats who number is high and keep only those dedicated to the betterment of our country and its people.
It has already started but many more need to join the causes that will achieve this.
There was a time in a country named America that its people were so proud to say they are part of it. That Country has vanished, however it is possible to start a new America where those in charge would Honor a Constitution that was of the people and for the people.
Was it not Thomas Jefferson that made a statement as to how we should resort to revolution to test the Constitution or the tenets of it??? If I am correct with this statement ,maybe now is the time. It Really is ours to take back.
July 22nd, 2009 at 1:04 pm
Cool Post…I am not sure it is all true but…goow work!
July 29th, 2009 at 7:47 pm
This is only the beginning as far as I’m concerned. What should be done is:
All members of congress that are obviously following the leads from corporate America ought to have their voting records and their funding made public. I don’t mean on a website like this, but blasted across all newspapers (if there are any left), websites, and perhaps the Controlled News Network and Fox Noise.
This will show how unAmerican they are and how they are really enemy combatants of the US. They should then be tried for treason and executed on the steps of the Capitol building or perhaps sent to Gitmo after being stripped of all their citzenship, and finiances.
They have one agenda on the block. It’s called screw the American people and help corporate America make as much money on the backs of the citizens. Think about how the banks have screwed us. They paid congress well to get their bail out money and gave themselves $100B-plus in bonuses all the while they’ve jacked up fees and interest rates on the rest of us. Very few people benefited for any loans. They gave the loans to their friends and to the other banks while raking in billions of dollars on the side. They also fixed the bankruptcy laws to help themselves and not the private citizens. This is the only country in the world right now where the CEOs and executives kept their jobs after screwing everyone. In England they were tossed out immediately after their banking system was on the verge of collapse due to a similar mortgage crisis.
The insurance and big pharma industries have worked the system so congress will follow their lead rather than do what’s right for the people. The insurance/healthcare plan that’s going through Congress is no better than Uncle Mitt’s mASShole plan. He made sure that the private insurance companies made out well in Massachusetts. Here they control which doctors to visit, how much they will cover and how long the coverage lasts. They also play tricks with coverage. Periodically the uninsured residents have to prove eligibility and have to refile paperwork. Every time the paperwork is refiled, the company manages to lose it so the people aren’t covered until the plan gets reinstated. do this for a few thousand, perhaps tens of thousands of residents, and they’re making a few mill on the system. They also play with drug coverage and force patients to wait for prescription coverage on medication that can’t be stopped without serious side-effects. A call to my local state representative solved that situation for my very ill sister who was heading to convulsions due to stopped medication.
I could go on… I am currently unemployed due to the poor economic conditions. While the wealthiest of the citizens eat lobster and cavier for breakfast, I’m scrambling to purchase anti-Parkinson’s drugs that I can no longer afford. When my unemployment kicks in next week, I’ll still be screwed because I do not qualify for the state health plan (made too much money last year), and I’ll still have to skip medication because it costs 50% of my monthly unemployment income. Oh I’m told to keep looking for a job. Yeah where India? The ass-hole MBAs made sure that the jobs were sent to India and China.
This is a revolution that has yet to being and it needs to begin real soon.
It’s time that congress gets dumped.
August 2nd, 2009 at 6:40 pm
Everday more and more of our rights are being taken away and no one seems to care .They say ” They can’t do that ” or “conspiricy theories” OPEN YOUR EYES AMERICA ! The politians are framing this country in a way that our voices will be silenced and payed for with our sweat. WE THE PEOPLE have no say. Do you have any idea what OUR representives are passing into law? The ‘NEWS’ does not report these things anymore.Wheres the transparency? I fear for our future.We need to rally and speak out NOW!
August 5th, 2009 at 9:20 am
Toni,
Your comment is spot on!
It’s true we no longer have the say. The NEWS has been manipulated to only show what they want us to hear. There’s a small few controlling the information we’ supposed to read.
This is why the news on the web is so easily accessible. It’s been watered down, and much is politcally directed, on the main news sites. Have you ever noticed that whenever there’s a big event happening, that what might be iimportant to us is convered very briefly with little sensation that it should have, and is immediately replaced with useless sensational noise about some actor or actress having an affair on is on drugs. Heck there was more attention paid to Michael Jackson’s death (suicide in my opinion) then there has been to the healthcare or banking crisis in this country.
October 5th, 2009 at 3:03 pm
The question, who with some kind of influence over many will be willing for the first shot to be fired? We are stuck in a rut with both left wing people and right wing in which “Political Correctness” and a perennial “niceness” and civility is stemming any thought of a revolt to remove those in congress and in the the federal government and to return this country to a place where the states have the soverign rights and the federal goverenment, in its limited role has its lead in National Defense and Interstate Commerce. So the question is, who is willing to lead? Who is willing to garner support to fire the first shot?
October 13th, 2009 at 7:56 pm
Sad thing is that people are clueless as to what is happening. Younger generation for most part have not been taught christian values. Most everyone wants to look to the government to take care of them,but are giving up there freedom THAT IS GIVEN BY GOD NOT THE GOVERNMENT in the process. Society in general has lost its values and the government reflects this. Im really concerned at what kind of place its going to be for my kids. I dont think its to the point of bloodshed yet ,but I see something has to happen if nothing changes in near future. It would be wonderful if enough people could peacefully unite and take back our country from those who dont believe in the principles this country was founded on. But on the other hand we must remember that our forefathers blood stained the soil of this country fighting for what they believed,and we should honor them by being willing to do the same.
October 13th, 2009 at 10:19 pm
i agree with all of these comments just about. all i know is that if a revolution started i would most definitely join in. i want a better life for my children and i don’t see them having it in this country.
October 17th, 2009 at 12:44 pm
Mad at both the Republicans in Democrats in Washington right and the left they have obviously abused there power way beyond acceptance, as well as the rebel rousing and misguided radicals everywhere.
Revolution? War? Killing? That’s all I hear anymore in these blogs, lets include famine, pain & suffering of my children and yours on a scale you don’t want to imagine? That’s just for starters. And for what to install a government that is better? Then turn around and replace them with other self-serving and corrupt individuals? Then I hear the coined term of a “ Peaceful Revolution “? What is this? There can be no such thing as a peaceful revolution if so then it is not a revolution at all it amounts to nothing just a paint it whatever color you want. If you are intent on removing those self-serving corrupt individuals with power who historically will NEVER voluntarily give up there power then you better prepare yourself for what is to come and I can only tell you out right it can and will kill you if you are not properly prepared. Oh yeah your ready to march to war at the drop of a hat. Right? I forgot you are ready for the mental and physical demands of combat not to mention the struggles your families (non-combatants) will have to endure. But you go camping every month with your militia buddies and practice shooting and combat maneuvers? Then go back to your base camp to your nice tent, nice soft cot with a warm dry sleeping bag and nice MRE all of these things you got at the surplus store and play cards till you pass out. Let me paint a first hand experience for you….. no tent, no sleeping bag, and your MRE is eaten cold while on the move in the cold rain. Your soaked to the bone, cold beyond belief, your feet feel like there about to fall off, shoulders screaming in pain from your heavy pack, and haven’t had a real meal in weeks or a shower for that fact. Oh yeah I forgot to mention you cannot carry all that cool survival gear you bought because your pack is loaded with extra ammo for the machine gun crews, mortar rounds for the mortar crews, claymores, C4, extra grenades, extra rifle ammo, LAW’s, AT4’s, mines and whatever else you can stuff in it that will keep you combat effective until you get resupplied, maybe. You may get a few extra socks in your pack and maybe a extra poncho liner with your rain gear, a few days of rations and off to war you go. This whole system weighs in at about 50 -70 lbs. How many can honestly say they have carried this kind of a load and over any amount of distance? In this kind of conflict you may be moving 10, 15, 20 miles a day on foot then expected to fight, you ready for that? Very few I would bet. Oh you got your 4wd truck, have you pictured all the roads jammed? The first act would be to severely limit the traffic on the roads. You are a high vis target on a interstate if you think I am crazy it doesn’t matter anyway because if you do go heading down the interstate in your 4×4 you wont be around very long anyway. So we walk and walk and walk getting the picture yet? Let me go on, you haven’t slept but here and there in three days (because you’re moving to the battle effective area or you’re in it). Ten miles back you took sniper fire and two of you good friends were killed. Nope no time to morn or bury them wrap them in a blanket and set them on the side of the road so some good Samaritan may come along a bury them. Oh yeah you and your buddies got the sniper and his buddy there bodies split in half from the multiple rounds there bodies took still dangling half out of the tree they stupidly hid in but wait you recognize one em a kid from your home town! Did you think your fighting some alien race? Forgine troops? These are Americans who believed in the other side. Is this starting to sound at all to frighteningly familiar? Yes not a revolution my friend we just entered the Civil War phase. There is no utopia awaiting you in this revoluatary scenario. Is there some savior of the people who is waiting in the wings? That almost sounds scarier than the fix were in now. Do most even have a clue to the suggestion of this insanity? I am a former infantry paratrooper who has served in combat and knows just some of the horrors of war. I am tired of these so called self promoted home town political experts, military experts and so on who go to the local range twice a month to blow away targets who talk war as if it’s a game, who post war, war ,war type blogs all over the web, most of these individuals are overweight and in pathic physical condition haven’t a clue to the physical and mental demands the term “ combat” entails. I am sick and tried of these self labeled patriotic American heroes who feel the loudest one in the room is right. Yes I am not at all happy with our government and change will happen. A healthy political system is one that seems in disarray. If you want it simple move to China the Government will tell you what, when, and how. Be patient America you are still a young child as a nation allow yourself to grow into what we know you can be. Empower a political party to turn Washington on its head. Join a party other than the Republicans or the Democrats they have out grown themselves and there usefulness. Political parties are a tool when it becomes useless get rid of it, YOU, WE have that power. Peace to all
October 20th, 2009 at 2:08 pm
D.Smith
You’re a moron. This nation was founded on blodd and it will be spilled again. I take it you’re in the Obama camp right? With all of his changes look how great we’re all doing. He’s just as corrupt as the rest. The only tool here is you. Good day Sir.
November 24th, 2009 at 12:08 am
we have trusted the government so much that now whatever they say even if it is wrong most of us go with it. this nation was founded on the ideals that any person can do whatever they want as long as it does not interfere with another person’s rights. Now the government is telling us what to do and we can’t have that. We need a revolution as soon as possible. if we do not take down the government they might try to take us down and take our guns with which we need to fight with i must say if they even try it i will hide my guns. they cannot take our rights to live the way we want but the do it anyway and people live with it. but people don’t realize that we can have so much more if we just have a revolution and set up a new government based off of the constitution again. Thomas Jefferson said that we must have a revolution every once in a while for the government will get too much power.