Murdered in plain site, in full view of the 300 million+ of its Citizens, the Republic, formerly known as the united States of America breathed its last breath.

Killed off by members of Congress who were sworn to uphold its Constitution, the Congress and their accomplice, Barak Hussein Obama conspired to rid its Citizens of their God given right to manage their private affairs such as medical health care.

As the reputed president of the former Republic, Barak Hussein Obama, in his own words did admit at George Mason University,  “And in just a few days, a century-long struggle will culminate in a historic vote“, the killing off of the former Republic was pre-meditated with a conspiracy lasting a hundred years.

The Democrats championing the health care bill, while the Republicans feigned an attack against it, proved much too strong for weary Republic that had been battling socialist tendencies for many years.

Socialism, like the cancer that it is, was hiding within the body of the Republic masquerading as other maladies, like “liberalism” and “progressive”, slowly tearing apart the very fabric of the American body.

The once proud American Republic, the shining light on the hill, the torch lighting the world to freedom, lives no more.

She is survived by formerly free Citizens who are to be cared for by the social utopia Congress from cradle to grave and all points in between.

No mention of a burial or funeral service.

Lady Liberty shines “freedom” no more to the world.  She will only mark the spot where the ghosts of liberty and justice  one lived.

May God have Mercy on us all!

Publius

If you really take the time to ask these good questions, and others, some easy research will educate you to the truth. Yes, the truth, and NOT what is often referred as “common knowledge”.

When it comes to Uncle Sam, the truth is what is actually written in the law (not what isn’t), what is written in the regulations implementing the law, and of course, what a conniving lawyer can get a court to say what the law is.

In every day American language, money is what ever you want to use to exchange goods and services. If chicken noodle soup cans can be used to pay your neighbor’s kid for cutting your lawn, then those soup cans are “money”.

We started out in this country using aside from the barter system coin, both gold and silver, but of course, the banking community took care of that and conveniently exchanged (with the help of Franklin Delano Roosevelt) real “lawful money” for paper money, or what is lawfully called “currency”. Yes, the dollars you have in your pocket is lawfully, “U. S. Government currency”. Now, if I pay my neighbor’s kid for cutting my lawn with the government’s currency, and the kid accepts it as a “tender in payment”, then I’ve fulfilled my obligation and paid the kid.

But the government doesn’t stop there. It goes further. Read on…

12 USC Sec. 411 TITLE 12 – BANKS AND BANKING CHAPTER 3 – FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM SUBCHAPTER XII – FEDERAL RESERVE NOTES Sec. 411. Issuance to reserve banks; nature of obligation; redemption Federal reserve notes, to be issued at the discretion of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System for the purpose of making advances to Federal reserve banks through the Federal reserve agents as hereinafter set forth and for no other purpose, are authorized. The said notes shall be obligations of the United States and shall be receivable by all national and member banks and Federal reserve banks and for all taxes, customs, and other public dues. They shall be redeemed in lawful money on demand at the Treasury Department of the United States, in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, or at any Federal Reserve bank.

So, if you read the emphasized words in the quote in one sentence and translate it to every day American English, it will read as this:

An unelected private group of bankers, here now and now forever, sell obligations (debt instruments) of the United States government (to the United States) and will pay this debt with revenue from public taxes (from you and me)

And Oh, by the way.  If you use it because you thought it was “money”, well hey, that’s your problem!

There’s more to this story.  I just gave you this snippet just to make you think for yourself.  Can you at least question on your own, using your own smarts and not what is spoon fed by government schools and their media proponents?

Think!  Just think!  Your money is a DEBT!  Not an asset (gold and silver) that it used to be.

So look again.  Which is it?  Money or Debt?

Perhaps you’ve been getting screwed by Uncle Sam because you didn’t know that you’ve been using dollars as both-Money and Debt!

Here’s a quote:

“…citizens now have a responsibility: “The most important single thing that can be done now is for each one of us to continue normal, reasonable buying.” Everyone should buy their normal needs, “put aside a small percentage for savings, and buy [as] much of the additional articles which contribute to general comfort and enjoyment as can be properly afforded”; this will lead to improved business.”

What did the Citizens do?  Most saved their money and spent as little as possible.  What was their reward? 

Roosevelt becomes the next constitutional dictator, closes the banks down, and steals your grandparents money they saved and replaced them with “paper notes” that they can’t redeem in gold anymore, starts the great depression.

“Gee, my grandparents got screwed by Uncle Sam too?”  You betcha!!

On whom did you think he got some practice in?

Oh, and the quote came from whom?

R. Lamont, Commerce Secretary, 1930.  The government no less!  What a shock, I know.

So tell me America, are you going to listen to the government again?

Hmm, yeah.  You will.  You’ve been screwed so long you can’t tell the condom from the rubber.  I mean the forest from the trees!

Publius

By itself, the Troubled Asset Relief Program (“TARP”) is a huge program at $700 billion. As discussed in SIGTARP’s April Quarterly Report, the total financial exposure of TARP and TARP-related programs may reach approximately $3 trillion. Although large in its own right, TARP is only a part of the combined efforts of the Federal Government to address the financial crisis. Approximately 50 initiatives or programs have been created by various Federal agencies since 2007 to provide potential support totaling more than $23.7 trillion.

Huh? How does $700 Billion become $23.7 Trillion? Only in America!

Click this $23.7 Trillion Dollar Heist link.

You know, this is starting to add up to real money!

“Reform” the healthcare system is only a ruse for the real program.  Government run, socialized health care!

See and hear for yourself!

And does Obama agree?  You betcha!

See and hear for yourself!

There are those of you want to believe that Obama will protect America, and those of you who believe he really cares for you.

WAKE UP, STUPID!

He’s Screwing you America!

Kiss your private doctor good-bye!

Publius

In January 1998, President Bill Clinton’s Environmental Protection Agency threatened to withhold federal transportation funds from the Atlanta region because it did not meet federal air-quality standards and said that it would agree to restore the funding only if the state of Georgia dramatically altered its land-use and transportation policies in ways similar to those characteristic of the Smart Growth polices that discourage single-family detached housing and encourage public transit use and investment.

Georgia agreed to do this, at least through the waning days of the Clinton Administration, but soon abandoned the policies when leadership in Washington changed. Carol Browner headed the EPA when the threat was imposed on Atlanta under Clinton.

Today, she is Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change. With the prospect of even worse to come from this new DOT–HUD partnership on sustainable communities, those who are skeptical of the President’s grandiose efforts at social engineering should be on the alert.

Hey Amerika.  Lean over to your kids or grandchildren and say, “Please forgive me”.

Why? For the absolute negligence in controlling Uncle Sam while he plots to screw your kids and grandchildren. Again!

See for your self.  At just past 50 seconds into the video, you will witness the President of the United States bowing to a Muslim King.

Well there you have it folks! The President of the United States bowing to a Muslim King!

Thanks, Barrack Hussein Obama.  Now we know where your loyalties lie!

A real American born president would never bow to anyone.

America, you voted for this subject of a muslim king.  You are so screwed!

Under considerable pressure from the American people Congress finally demanded that AIG come clean as to where all that money pouring into that uniquely constructed black money hole was really going. With the total amount of funds being forked over to AIG approaching $180 billion dollars some citizens were getting worked up about all of that money going so quickly to money heaven.

Read more… AIG Bailout and Money Laundering

It seems as though that the government not only prosecutes money launderers, the government passes laws authorizing it!

America, you are so Screwed!!

Publius

Now that Barack Hussein Obama and his enablers have enacted the most massive redistribution of wealth in history — more than four trillion dollars of it, with trillions more yet to come — just ask yourself: "Are you better off today than you were in the good old days under George W. Bush?"

Is your home, or your market investment, or your retirement account worth more today than it was last November, when the election of BHO ushered in the era of "hope ‘n’ change"?

For some reason, both the housing and equity markets began declining after Democrats regained control of the Senate and House in 2006. Since Obama’s election, the bottom has dropped out. We as Americans have not only lost income and jobs, but also some 35 percent of the value of our homes and market/retirement accounts.

What happened? I thought the election of Obama and the rush to pass his so-called "economic stimulus package" was supposed to restore confidence in the economy and our national leadership?

Could it be that some folks were duped into electing a Leftist "community organizer" to lead the world’s most powerful nation out of its worst economic crisis of confidence in decades? Indeed, this reality is just now sinking into the spongy heads of a growing chorus of Democrats.

Could it be, too, that Obama’s policies actually have much less to do with economic recovery than with, to use his own words, "the fundamental transformation of the United States of America" into a socialist republic?

Many distinguished economists have issued loud warnings about the consequences of Obama’s socialist policies. They remind us that those policies didn’t work for Roosevelt (Obama’s model), and they won’t restore our economy today — assuming that economic recovery is actually Obama’s objective.

For the record, Obama and his Leftist cadres have used the current economic crisis (which they seeded) as cover to implement their socialist "transformation of the USA" in under 60 days.

So, what will work? Economic liberty, which has always been self-regulating — free enterprise coupled with limited taxation and regulation, as outlined below.

President Ronald Reagan created the most recent template for economic and moral prosperity, outlined in "A Time for Choosing" and codified in the 1984 Republican Platform.

Inheriting the last great economic crisis in 1981, President Reagan said, "We who live in free market societies believe that growth, prosperity and ultimately human fulfillment are created from the bottom up, not the government down. Only when the human spirit is allowed to invent and create, only when individuals are given a personal stake in deciding economic policies and benefiting from their success — only then can societies remain economically alive, dynamic, progressive, and free. … Only private industry in the last analysis can provide jobs with a future. … The fact is, we’ll never build a lasting economic recovery by going deeper into debt at a faster rate than we ever have before. … In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem."

Of course, Reagan was quick to admit that his outline was based on the timeless wisdom of those from generations before his.

The free-enterprise principles Ronald Reagan advanced are rooted in those espoused by 18th-century moral philosopher and political economist Adam Smith, who is most noted for authoring "An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations."

Smith wrote, "In a market free from monopolies and self-serving public policies, competition among the self-interests of isolated consumers and producers produces a stable and expanding economy. The self-interested pursuit of wealth may not be individually satisfying but leads to an aggregate increase in wealth that is in the best interests of a nation. … Great nations are never impoverished by private, though they sometimes are by public prodigality and misconduct."

Our Founders understood these principles and advanced them into the 19th century.

"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground," wrote Thomas Jefferson. "To take from one, because it is thought his own industry and that of his fathers has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers, have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, the guarantee to everyone the free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it. … [A] wise and frugal government … shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government."

"The essence of Government is power," wrote James Madison, "and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse. … Government is instituted to protect property of every sort; as well that which lies in the various rights of individuals, as that which the term particularly expresses. This being the end of government, that alone is a just government, which impartially secures to every man whatever is his own."

According to John Adams, "The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence. If ‘Thou shalt not covet’ and ‘Thou shalt not steal’ were not commandments of Heaven, they must be made inviolable precepts in every society before it can be civilized or made free. … A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever."

In the 20th century, there were three giants among free enterprise economists: Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich August von Hayek and Milton Friedman.

Austrian economist and philosopher von Mises (1881-1973) argued, "All that good government can do to improve the material well-being of the masses is to establish and to preserve an institutional setting in which there are no obstacles to the progressive accumulation of new capital and its utilization for the improvement of technical methods of production. … The direction of all economic affairs is in the market society a task of the entrepreneurs. Theirs is the control of production. They are at the helm and steer the ship. A superficial observer would believe that they are supreme. But they are not. They are bound to obey unconditionally the captain’s orders. The captain is the consumer. …[Consumers] make poor people rich and rich people poor. They determine precisely what should be produced, in what quality, and in what quantities."

Classical libertarian and free-market capitalist F.A. von Hayek (1899-1992) wrote, "Capitalism is not only a better form of organizing human activity than any deliberate design, any attempt to organize it to satisfy particular preferences, to aim at what people regard as beautiful or pleasant order, but it is also the indispensable condition for just keeping that population alive which exists already in the world. I regard the preservation of what is known as the capitalist system, of the system of free markets and the private ownership of the means of production, as an essential condition of the very survival of mankind. … Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our g
eneration understand that to choose one’s government is not necessarily to secure freedom. … Emergencies’ have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded."

Perhaps the best known economist of the last century was Milton Friedman (1912-2006), who authored "Free to Choose."

Friedman, who in 1976 was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, wrote, "The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy. … Roosevelt’s policies were very destructive. Roosevelt’s policies made the depression longer and worse than it otherwise would have been."

In regard to socialism, Friedman wrote, "The society that puts equality before freedom will end up with neither. The society that puts freedom before equality will end up with a great measure of both. … Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself. … We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork."

Of course, there are great free-market economists in our midst today — notable among them are Thomas Sowell and Walter E. Williams.

Of Obama’s plans, Sowell writes, "Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it. … It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it. … The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all of those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics. … The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites."

Characteristically, Walter Williams cuts to the core: "Two-thirds of the federal budget consists of taking property from one American and giving it to another. Were a private person to do the same thing, we’d call it theft. When government does it, we euphemistically call it income redistribution, but that’s exactly what thieves do — redistribute income. Income redistribution not only betrays the founders’ vision, it’s a sin in the eyes of God. … No human should be coerced by the state to bear the medical expense, or any other expense, for his fellow man. In other words, the forcible use of one person to serve the purposes of another is morally offensive. … One of the wonderful things about free markets is that the path to greater wealth comes not from looting, plundering and enslaving one’s fellow man, as it has throughout most of human history, but by serving and pleasing him."

So, what is one to conclude about the policies of Obama versus Reagan, and all the Patriots who went before Reagan?

Obama’s policies have nothing to do with economic recovery, but with growing the size and influence of the central government — the ultimate objective being to socialize the economy. The residual of free enterprise may well right our economy, in spite of Obama’s antics, but the consequences of the current government folly will certainly leave future generations with a greater debt of servitude to our government masters — short of real "change."

So, what constitutes "real" change?

There is a growing enthusiasm for "tea parties" around the nation, and some Patriot readers have inquired as to whether it is time for a tea party on the Potomac.

I am quite sure, however, that if Thomas Jefferson and our other Patriot Founders were with us today, there would not be the smell of tea in the Potomac, but the smell of burnt powder over the Potomac. As Jefferson asserted, "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure."

It is our fervent prayer that the thinly veiled revolution, "the fundamental transformation of the USA" already underway in Washington DC, can be defeated peacefully. Every member of The Patriot’s editorial and technical staff is a parent. However, we all subscribe to these words from Thomas Paine in the cold winter of 1776: "If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace."

Enjoy your “Tea Parties”, America.  Socialism is on the march, and you want to gather and talk about it?

You are so screwed, America.

I know it’s tough to understand.  You work hard, play by the rules, and then comes along the U.S. Treasury claiming that if they don’t get their money, the U.S. economy is going to hell in a hand basket.

Well, here now the news…  The United States of America has already gone to hell in a handbasket!

There’s a shocker, I know.

Yes, the fix for all our “debt” problems is: going into more “debt”!  Huh, what?

Well, while you and your neighbors get caught up in the debate they want you to argue, look up the statutes and find out what the U.S. Treasury can really do to screw the American people.  For example, read this statute.

The actions, regulations, rules, licenses, orders and proclamations heretofore or hereafter taken, promulgated, made, or issued by the President of the United States or the Secretary of the Treasury since March 4, 1933, pursuant to the authority conferred by section 95a of this title, are approved and confirmed.  (my emphasis added)

This legal cite is taken from the U.S. Code and can be found at 12 USC 95b

The U.S. Treasury can do ANYTHING THEY WANT!  IT’S ALREADY PRE-APPROVED!  So, how did you enjoy the dog-and-pony show this past fall?

And did they choose to correct the problem and get the American people out of debt?

No, the borrowed another trillion dollars and put us further into debt!

And you voted for “change”?  That’s all you’re going to have in your pocket soon enough-just change!

America, you’ve been Screwed by Uncle Sam!