Imagine this scenario: You walk into your kitchen on a hot, muggy summer day for a midday snack. You fix yourself a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, a common and traditional All-American treat. You open the refrigerator and pour yourself a nice, cold glass of milk.

As you sit down at the table, you are in great anticipation to partake in this delicious snack. As you put the glass of milk to your quivering lips, you suddenly portray a look of disgust and dissatisfaction. The milk is spoiled. It’s been in the refrigerator without use for far too long. You groan in disbelief as you become victim to the sour taste of milk gone bad.

We were once taught that America was the place of opportunity and achievement. We believed in the concept that you can be anything that you desire to be and that America was a beacon of hope for those who dreamed of success. But for those who are looking up to America as a symbolism of hope and prosperity will quickly find that America is simply unrecognizable, and like sour milk, leaves a bitter taste in many people’s mouths.

Who will watch the watchers? In a world of ubiquitous, hand-held digital cameras, that’s not an abstract philosophical question. Police everywhere are cracking down on citizens using cameras to capture breaking news and law enforcement in action.

My fellow Americans, it is foolish and ignorant for us to sit back and be complacent. You have seen your taxpayer money wasted to bailout CEOS and companies who are not performing, only to see them file for bankruptcy. You have seen the government spend money that it simply does not have, and as a result, it has deepened our national debt. You have seen a government who refuses to behave fiscally. Instead of spending your money wisely, government has wasted it on insurance for honeybees, an airport for Congressman John Murtha, and other wasteful projects. We are seeing Congress in the process of passing the largest tax increase in years with the cap-and-trade bill.

America–it is time to liberate yourself from the idea that the government will take care of you. The question during the 2008 Presidential Campaign was “Are you better off than you were 8 years ago?” I ask you this: Will you be better off 10 years from now? What will you give to your children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren?

While the government is bankrupting Social Security, manipulating citizens with the Federal Reserve, and expanding its power over the private sector, what will you do? Will we continue to cling to a government that depends on China and Saudi Arabia for oil instead of decreasing our dependency on foreign oil or will we remain silent?

Conservatives, including Republicans and Libertarians, believe in small government. But how many Americans truly understand what that means?

Government is currently paying Mary Jane 14 Billion dollars* a year to control men. Legalize Mary Jane and tax her! Let’s stop wasting money on marijuana laws; laws created out of deceit. The truth: the current war on drugs has its roots in racism, not in studies proving harm to health, but the hatred whites had against Mexicans in El Paso, Texas, in 1914. In that year, the city of El Paso passed an ordinance that made it illegal to possess marijuana; a law that was created solely to control LEGAL Mexicans.

Why are all Americans getting punished for this historical and irresponsible act of hatred? Rules, laws, and regulations are often abused to control men.

It is said that when Alexander the Great visited the philosopher Diogenes he asked the wise man if there was anything he could do for him. Diogenes is said to have replied, “Yes. Stand a little less between me and the sun.”

I thought of Diogenes as I read portions of the president’s speech from Cleveland, Ohio. The New York Times reports that the president used the word fight or some version of it more than 20 times.

Mr. Obama vowed to fight for jobs; he promised to fight for quality education; he promised to fight for health care; fight for transparency in government. He promised to fight! Fight! Fight! And never stop fighting. “So long as I have some breath in me,” he said, “so long as I have the privilege of serving as your President, I will not stop fighting for you.”

Such pronouncements of chivalry no doubt came as a surprise to the parents and children of the opportunity scholarship program.

Also known as the D.C. voucher program the OSP was started in 2003 as a program to provide children from low income families scholarships of up to $7500 to attend non-public K-12 schools within the district.

I wonder if during The Great Depression, the people carried the same sort of angst we hold now. Whether they believed they had destroyed America for the generations to follow or were they more worried about their current plight?

With the pre-election crash in the market, a continued fear of market investment, high unemployment, high taxes, and a government that leans to protectionism and massive spending; the scene is set for a Great Depression. Two major factors keep us on the brink of what we deserve and what we will allow; the individual American and the Government. This doesn’t bode well for us.

Government’s heavy handiness occurred during the Great Depression. The individual American had legitimate arguments. They hadn’t lived out-side of their means or risked it all in the stock market; their only sin was depositing money in an unsecured bank. As banks failed, they lost everything and the first “US” generation was born. “We, the people” was forgotten and selfishness and entitlement set in.

I am always troubled by those in government claiming they have a moral imperative to enact this or that policy. A little digging often reveals that their motives are more self serving than moral.

Such is the case with liberal Democrats and their insistence that the moral laws of the universe – laws that have been with us since God breathed life into man (or as some would have it when we rose from the primordial soup) – command Government to supply every citizen (and many that aren’t) with health insurance.

Hastily written and thrust upon the American people after almost no debate, the “stimulus” provided for hundreds of billions of dollars of non-stimulative spending. It contained, for example, many billions of dollars for money-losers like Amtrak, grant-makers like the National Endowment for the Arts, and Democratic pet projects like global-warming research and purchasing hybrid vehicles for federal employees – hardly the kinds of outlays that come to mind when the goal is to accelerate an economic recovery

Conservatives, or so called “conservatives” wail on and on about how big the government has gotten. They constantly tell us how universal healtcare would cost too much, be too instrusive, is “socialist” and so on and so forth. Well I do agree to some extent with them, the government is too big, it’s bloated, inefficient, and out of control. There are aspects of the government that smack of socialism. Where we diverge is what we believe is socialism.

“When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.” – Thomas Jefferson, third President of the United States.  In the time and age of economic peril, we have seen many people lose hope, faith and trust. Many Americans have seen their investments and their financial security [...]