Is this the United States of America?

What does United States of America mean? It means that Individual States of Government have come together in common interest to form a Union that allows Interstate Commerce and Common Defense amongst the citizens of those states. The individual States are meant to empower the Union.

Instead, we see a Federal Government that has neutered the States and their rights and at the same time the Executive Branch of the Federal government of the United States has neutered the legislative branches of the House of Representatives and the Senate. So in essence, we are moving full speed towards government by decree, not representative democracy. And this is all being done because our representatives at every level have willingly gone along with this corrupted system.

Government is gaining way too much control over the people and power is being consolidated and centralized and it rolls down hill. In the long run this type of tyrannical system will not last, but in the meantime we will be subjected to the whims and fancies of an arbitrary system controlled by very few people and their will be a lot of angst and pain in the process of this system being implemented.

Why is this happening? It is simple really. The system is corrupted at every level and it is rotten to the core. I am going to come out and let you know who I follow. People like Gerald Celente, Bob Chapman, and Catherine Austin Fitts have had what is going on pegged. There are others, but these three individuals are the people who have awakened me.

The corporatocracy has infiltrated the bureaucracy and they have become one and the same. Look at the only sector of the United States economy that has continued to grow over the last twenty years. It is the government sector.

We have seen the productive capacity of this country decimated, because the citizens of this country picked sides in the Republican-Democrat competition and gave blind faith to the leadership of the parties to implement philosophy. This adherence to the left-right paradigm sanctioned the lack of accountability and usurpation of our freedoms in the name of a false and temporary fix of security. In the end, none of the real issues that we as a nation face have been dealt with. Instead the bountiful treasure, once held by the country, has been pilfered.

When we had a productive capacity, the service sector was fruitful, because there was a growing economy with full employment. That meant individuals and the enterprises they represented could invent, create, and manufacture products that created value. And that expanded value created wealth for all who were involved in the process. Full employment meant higher wages, because there was more competition for labor. The service sector was filled and growing with people who specialized in their field, because wealth demanded services that supported a higher quality of life and standard of living. People wanted the finer things life had to offer.

The service sector has now become the servant sector. We have seen a service sector filled with people who don't have the credentials of the specialists. This has meant that the specialists have had their professional status, and therefore earnings, slashed because of the influx of people who would normally be working in factories manufacturing merchandise, equpiment, and supplies. Now the people in the newly formed servant sector are forced into a free for all competition for a dwindling job market as real wealth continues to be sucked out of our nation. Subtract 2-2 and you might figure out that these servant sector jobs won't last forever either. The death of these industries is next.

Our State and local leaders have gone along with all of this because of the reasoning of personal status. Their leadership is impotent, because they aren't willing to take a real stand. Oh, they'll send some meaningless resolution to Raleigh or they will go to Raleigh or Washington and plead for representatives at those levels to do something. Has this been effective?

These leaders are more than willing to follow the path of least resistance, because it isn't personally affecting them. Effective leadership is hard work. It's a lot easier (and in many cases more lucrative) to go along to get along. I can't tell you how many times that I have been told, "Thom needs to look out for Thom." That fosters the mindset of -- "As long as I've got mine, Screw You."

That is the crux of the problem. The selfishness of society has enabled the tolerance and endorsement of corruption. The average person that turns a blind eye towards what they consider "fudging the rules" has enabled the Society of Sociopaths that are at the top of the Economic and Political Food Chain. These Sociopaths are the people who have destroyed our economy. These Sociopaths are the people who are consolidating power in their own interests.

So essentially our leaders are (by inaction) sanctioning a sociopathic society. They are endorsing the Financial Derivative Bubble, they are endorsing the British Petroleum oil spill, they are endorsing the usurpation of States Rights that would allow States to solve issues that personally affect their States, they are endorsing the takeover of our government by the world banking cartel (Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan as the main players), they are endorsing the actions of Rahm "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste" Emanuel, they are endorsing the actions of radicals like Cass Sunstein, Janet Napolitano, and the others that are attempting to bury the Constitution...

I am not the weirdo here folks. I have my priorities straight. Do you think George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, and John Adams were weirdos?

I am not saying that I am one of these great men. What I am saying is that I follow their principles. I revere these men who were willing to take a most courageous stand against the English throne. Are you so separated from reality and history that you do not realize that they put their lives on the line to create the great experiment that is this country -- that people seem so willing to throw away. You cower in fear towards the great swindle that has taken place and the tyranny that is being installed to cover up all of the illegality that has happened.

It is time that the States take back power. Bobby Jindal, the Louisiana Governor, came to power because of Katrina and yet, much like his predecessor, he has shown incompetence in the face of a Federal Government that has completely bungled this British Petroleum situation. It sure makes it look like an inside job. Look at our own Governor Perdue who has sidled up to the Federal Government and thwarted any attempts to mandate accountability in dealing with the Financial or Health Care legislation that has been inacted against the will of the People.

We have a Federal government that demands privacy for corporate interests, such as the Federal Reserve System, Goldman Sachs, and British Petroleum; yet they look at the citizens of this country as potential terrorists who deserve no right to privacy and who deserve no right to freely speak, have their interests represented, or demand accountabilty. Look at the new internet and broadband communications regulations that the FCC and FTC want to administer. They want to come into your home with a box and be able to monitor the sites you visit and the channels you watch. If you are truly clueless, please go read the articles below and the Book 1984 by George Orwell. We are headed that way and it is full speed ahead.

I have to admit that I am thoroughly disgusted by what I see. When I have addressed the issues of Goldman Sachs links to cronysim, conflicts of interest with the Government, and corruption; I have been told that it is about regulation. No, it is about investigation and enforcement of laws. You can pass all of the laws in the world and if people continue to turn a blind eye, and regulations aren't administered and enforced, then they are meaningless, and the corruption will continue on unfettered. If we allow this corruption to continue, then it's over folks, our country is done, and along with that will go your liberty as written in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. I hope that God will grant you the courage to wake up!

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