Stuff to think about

"There are those who still think they are holding the pass against a revolution that may be coming up the road. But they are gazing in the wrong direction. The revolution is behind them. It went by in the Night of [the] Depression, singing songs to freedom."

While outwardly America appeared the same, a revolution within had taken place that was now irreversible. One need only glance at where we were before the New Deal, where we are and where we are headed to see how far we are off the course the Founding Fathers set for our republic.

Taxes drove the American Revolution, for we were a taxaphobic, liberty-loving people. That government is best that governs least is an Americanism. When "Silent Cal" Coolidge went home in 1929, the U.S. government was spending 3 percent of gross domestic product.

And today? Obama's first budget will consume 28 percent of the entire GDP; state and local governments another 15 percent. While there is some overlap, in 2009, government will consume 40 percent of GDP, approaching the peak of World War II. More at wnd.com

Yes -- from 3% to 28% and it's still not enough for the communists. All you have to do to achieve utopia is to give up a little bit more of your private property and just a little bit more of your liberty. (Paraphrasing Mark Levin.)

Well, we've given up more and more and more ... and it's never enough ... and where are we?