So long as our government is not a dictatorship, who the hell cares whether it is a democracy, a representative democracy, or a constitutional republic?

I suggest that you notice the constantly increasing price of a house, the level of your own personal debt, and the number of solicitations you receive each week for credit cards, debt consolidation loans, and debt counseling.  I also suggest that you notice the amount of anger you feel because of the usurpations of power by the “other” political party. Then, I further suggest that you should care because our form of government affects you everyday! 

Many of us have noticed the financial problems that are caused by short-term thinking and rampant materialism,  but most of us are ignoring the blue elephant in the living room—the financial problems and divisiveness caused by our short-term thinking about rampant government.

Our Founders were incredibly brave people who fought the War of Independence and the War of 1812 to free us from the tyranny of a monarchy.  They were also incredibly intelligent people who did not want us to suffer under the tyranny of an unlimited democracy any more than they wanted us to suffer under the tyrany of an unlimited monarchy or dictatorship.   They wanted us to have a constitutional republic so that we would remain free and become wealthy. 

They wrote a Constitution for us and stated in Article 4, “The United States shall guarantee to every state in this Union a republican form of government….” They went to all of this effort so that we would have a republic and not any other form of government, including a democracy that everyone has been falsely claiming for far more than a century that we have.

The problem with pure and representative democracies is that there are no limiting provisions that would be found in an effective constitution.  Therefore, 51% of the voters can do anything they damn well please, and the cost of everything that happens gets charged to your credit card whether it makes you angry or not. 

We need to let the marketplace handle as many issues as possible because it offers a multitude of choices and can keep a huge percentage of the population satisfied.  When we allow Big Government to settle issues in the political arena, it provides only one answer, and the solution is generally a compromise that nearly 50% of the population find totally unpalatable.  Even the majority is never really pleased because one size simply does not fit all. The cumulative effect of a huge number of undesirable compromises has created anger and divisiveness in America.  And it will cause poverty.

Some examples:

1.  Allow every individual and corporate hog in the barnyard to feed at the government trough and charge their cuisine to your credit card?  In an unlimited democracy, all it takes is 51% and all it takes to get that is to trade a few favors (at your expense) to some other special interest groups.  When are you going to realize that all of these favors are making you poor and angry in our country that is rapidly degenerating from a democratic republic into a democracy?  For details on just who is using your misguided belief in unlimited democracy to steal your children’s heritage, visit the Pig Book site.

If you think that you do not pay many taxes and that this is not your problem, go try to buy a loaf of bread at the same price you paid five years ago.  The difference in price you will find is just one example of how you are paying the costs of a runaway democracy through inflation while you fail to protect our republic that was gradually making us all wealthy.

2. Make any religious group the official national religion if it can accumulate 51% of the voters?  Done!  Change the official national religion every time a different group raises the 51%?  Done!  To the contrary, there is room for many beliefs and non-beliefs in the marketplace.

3.  Limit free speech with the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002?  The title and intentions sound good, so why not?  51%.  Done!  In democracies, if there is a constitution, it is just a “living document” written in disappearing ink on Silly Putty. It can be interpreted and re-interpreted anyway we want to at the moment.  There is no need in a democracy to go to all of the trouble to amend an old document before doing whatever 51% want to do.  To the contrary, if we would just protect that old document, it would lead us to freedom.  There is plenty of room for many different opinions in the marketplace.

4.  Force everyone to contribute to certain mismanaged but approved government charities before allowing anyone to use any remaining disposable funds to contribute to causes of his or her choice?  To hell with the constitutional issues—there is no need to amend the Constitution first to allow this bureaucratic “Robin Hood” approach to charity.  In an unlimited democracy, private property rights are just privileges that are subject to a majority vote.  Some of the motives are honorable, and it is the will of  “We, the people”—at least 51% anyway.  Done!

5.  Two school systems that are separate and unequal?  That was done not too long ago in my state and many others by a majority vote until the constitutional restraints of our fading republic put an end to the practice.

6.  After raising money to support education, divert much of it to run wasteful bureaucracies, and deny parents of school-aged children the option to use their share of that money to help pay the cost of sending their children to a school of their choice?  In an unlimited democracy, your rights to make choices affecting you and yours are just privileges that are subject to a majority vote.  51%...done!  To the contrary, there is room for many different types of schools in the marketplace.

7.  Deny individuals the right to defend themselves.  51%...done!

8.  Force every worker to participate in a Ponzi scheme known as Social Security?  Then force all participants to increase their “investments” and reduce their “returns” after the crooks running our national scam take all of the money and spend it for their own benefit--buying votes and paying off supporters?  Social Security is one of many examples of a title that sounds better than the contents of the bill, but why not?  51%...done!  Any judges who should point out the unconstitutionality of this fraudulent “contract between generations” are just out of control pinheads trying to thwart the will of the people in our “democracy.”  Congratulations, you and I are two of the suckers paying into this Ponzi scheme, and all of our “investments” are gone forever.

9.  Execute all left-handed people without first amending the Constitution to allow that action?  51% in an unlimited democracy, done!  Is this example unrealistic in the USA since we still pay a little attention to our Constitution?  I certainly hope so.

Fellow Americans, when are you going to learn about the problems inherent in pure and representative democracies and force our government back to being the constitutional republic that was guiding us toward freedom and wealth?  When are you going to educate yourselves about our incredible heritage? When are you going to stop accepting the indoctrination of government monopoly schools and a media divided into left-wing and right-wing biases?

Your grandchildren desperately need you to take action to protect their inheritance.  Visit the informative sites linked from this one often and buy a copy of Big Government…Poor Grandchildren today.

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