In The Teeth of - - - - ism

The REAL Americans among us have been talking, no warning, about "slippery slopes" for some years now. Last fall the second foot was placed on the icy slope, and down we go into the jaws of government control. The teeth of Marxism, socialism or some other as yet unknown "ism has teeth firmly set in the flesh of liberty. The massive spending combined with government control of medical services, financial institutions and industry has sealed the fate of this country. We are no longer the "great hope for liberty". We were, but no more.

As DirtCrashr says.

243 years was a pretty good run as far as Nations go, better than most.
Fallen to greed, avarice, lust, and sloth - the stock-in-trade of the Evil Party
against which the spineless fecal-eating maggots of the Stupid Party could not
stand - they caved.
Israel had better look out for it's own welfare now, the
US has had its balls cut off. In a few years from now, just as relentlessly as
in Canada and all across Europe, we'll be hearing announcements of necessary
defense cuts in order to prop up the grossly unsustainable costs of Big
Government, while the political class of John Edwards' real Two Americas builds
a monument to itself. I wonder when the law against a Continuing Presidency will
be overturned, next year? We have already joined the ranks of Banana Republics
with this craven act.

There's a Bible quote Forgive them for they know not what they do. In
this case I'm afraid they know exactly what they've done, and it has nothing to
do with helping anyone but their own desire to destroy liberty in favor of
government control.

Attributed to Dingell, and again from DirtCrashr.

Let me remind you this [Americans allegedly dying because of lack
of universal health care] has been going on for years. We are bringing it to
a halt. The harsh fact of the matter is when you're going to pass legislation
that will cover 300 [million] American people in different ways it takes a long
time to do the necessary administrative steps that have to be taken to put the
legislation together to control the people.

If you listen closely, the truth comes out. CONTROL THE PEOPLE

There is still a glimmer of hope, a very faint light down the dark tunnel. Several states are filing suit against the Fed, and just maybe the next elections can help. But my fear is that it's all too late. The People have gotten too soft, too reliant on Gov and fallen asleep at the switch. I fear that only a repeat of the Civil War can set us back on the right track, and we just don't have the stomach for that anymore. At least not enough of us. We've become too European.