SSW A good rant and I pretty much agree with everything you said.

There are many reasons we are in the situation we are in today. Media, government and way to many people on the system.

The overall leaning in this country nowadays is to move towards socialism. From wall street to main street, the government wants to control everything.

First we need to get people off the system and understanding that they need to be responsible for themselves. The government doesnt want that though, they have more control when people are dependent upon them.

Even if you changed those people on the system you still have 90% of America that is clueless. They are evenly devided as dems and repubs. Few realize they are the same thing nowadays.

That leaves us with about 10% of us that truly want freedom back. The end result is that we would need to fight 90% of the people and the government in order to obtain that. Its not easy to come to grips with this. Its taken me a while. The sad thing is that when the 10% of us talk about freedom we are looked at as some kind of kooks.. LOL..

Anyway, in order to restore freedom your going to need to change the 90% of the population that is brain dead or brain washed by the media. As long as the media exists there will be a socialist agenda pushed.

The only thing that may wake people up is the coming implosion in the US economy. Its already started but most dont even see it. Bear sterns being bought out, Fannie and freddie being taken over by the government. Yea their profits were private but their losses belong to all of us.. LOL.. The bottom line is they had to do these things to try and hold shit together. This system is a lot more fragile than people realize and its going to take a little longer for it to fully unwind. Whn it does the government is going to print money like crazy to try and hold shit together. It wont work and is only going to lead to massive inflation. The result will be, all savings, 401k's, pensions, everything is going to be wiped out.

It all started with the housing mess. and now the credit crunch, but if you listen to the media they are saying the worst is behind us, now is the time to buy.. Dont believe it. Between now and the end of 09 we are going to see some serious corrections in housing. As this continues more and more are going to be unemployed. This will further lead to a decline in the US economy and its really just a snowball effect.

71% of the US economy is consumer spending. Again the medi acts like all is well. If that was the case the government wouldnt be sending out checks to everyone to try and stimulate the economy. Things are far worse than any media outlet or government agency will let on to.

Why do I say all this? Because this may be a blessing for us freedom lovers. It wont be until many lose everything that they realize the American dream was a dream built on ever expanding debt. Once these people start to lose everything we may see them wake up to the reality that they need to take care of themselves and government needs to leave us alone.