Revolution

i'm sick of looking at my dog when i open this page, so i'll deviate (as is not a bit uncommon) and recommend a book you. Whether or not you like him, or agree with what you've been allowed to hear from him, do go get and read Ron Paul's new book, The Revolution: A Manifesto. It's an eye opening history of the conservative, starkly existentialist roots of America and its constitution, and brings up some mind-bogglingly simple points fastidiously avoided by the chosen talking heads on the present stage, as well as some questions in desperate want of answers. Also (to my great pleasure) it is quite naturally devoid of the wackjob conspiracists that've haunted Paul's campaign like the stench on an unwashed fat guy.

Here's a small excerpt that aptly sums up much of what Paul has to say with respect to our economic woes that, in his estimation, are inextricably bound to a terribly sick foreign / domestic policy. He quotes Felix Morley from Freedom and Federalism who has cited Adolf Hitler respecting his views on a "powerful national government," after which Morley elucidates: "...the problem of empire-building is essentially mystical. It must somehow foster the impression that a man is great in the degree that his nation is great; that a German as such is superior to a Belgian as such; an Englishman, to an Irishman; an American, to a Mexican: merely because the first-named countries are in each case more powerful than their comparatives. And people who have no individual stature whatsoever are willing to accept this poisonous nonsense because it gives them a sense of importance without the trouble of any personal effort."

There seems to be no limit to what our remote federal government is willing to spend our money (or, for that matter, our freedoms) on, provided it doesn't directly cost any of them anything.