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I'm grateful for Christmas and the spirit of giving and gratitude it represents.  This year unfortunately there is a big damper on the season.  I awoke early today, Christmas Eve, long before the wife and kids roll out of bed so I could get a few things done prior to checking out for the holidays.  I look briefly at the news that has come in over the evening and I see that finally the crooked Senate passed their Health Care Reform bill at 7AM EST.  How demoralizing.  Here I am, a hard working capitalist, sacrificing my early morning to get some work done, only to find out that the fruits of my labor are being sold off and stolen by MY elected representatives.  Aaarrgghhh.

I'm incredulous that this could happen in America.  Those that stand for liberty and freedom have been bludgeoned and silenced for so long that finally those who've been vying to seize power over the greatest country ever known to the planet earth are doing it, and we're letting them do it.

For the record, I don't believe for a second that this health care reform bill has anything to do with helping poor people improve their lives by getting health care.  It has everything to do with shifting power to an elite group of central planners.  You see, America was founded on the principle of individual freedom, of the worth of man.  Our government was empowered by the support of every individual human being.

Every individual's vote combined together is what enabled the abstract concept of a binding government decision possible.  This form of government will not be able to continue when that government takes on a mind and soul of its own.  It is drifting far from its roots and has violated the very principles upon which the country, the constitution and the very offices in which these frauds now sit.  The HCR bill is yet another small example of a larger movement toward centralizing government, taking the power of choice, freedom, and liberty away from the individual and placing it in the hands of a select few planners.

The source of America's success has been the bottomless pool of innovation, creativity, and self discipline in which we have been able to swim for over 300 years.  The pool is filled with a magical elixir.  It gives life to ideas, it inspires men who appear common to become incredible.   We have a country founded on ideas inspired and nurtured by men who have been drunk on the elixir, liberty.  Individual liberty.

Unfortunately, the pool is polluted.  Those who claim to love the earth and fight pollution of nature's lakes and streams, are dumping a proverbial toxic waste into the single source of power that enables them to fight against it.  Liberty is all that we have.  It is all that sets the United States of America apart from the rest of the world.  And yes, we are different from other countries.  And no, we should not give up being who we are to become like other countries.  Our system worked well, and we are throwing it away.  There are a small number of power mongers who are polluting the fresh pool of liberty to drown out the source of power that the individual man uses for his sustenance.

They say they do it for the betterment of society, to improve life for the people.  There is no such thing as  "the people".  What there is a whole lot of individuals living together that created a group called government, to protect their basic right, liberty.  The individual created the government.  The individual loaned the government his gun and said, "Here's my gun, I'm loaning it to you so you can protect my life and property, my liberty.  Use it only for those purposes."  At first it worked well, the government protected the individual property of the man who loaned it the gun, the power to kill.  The pure intentions of the individual unfortunately have been violated, the trust of the individual to his government, which he himself empowered, has been crossed, trampled on, and disgraced.  And it has happened slowly and gradually over many decades.

Some little bugger got into the powerful government, made powerful not of itself, but on the backs of all the collective support of every hard working, productive individual in the country.  This little bugger got in there and took the very gun, loaned to it by the individual man, and pointed it back at the individual's head.  It's now being used to take property away from the individual!  What a mockery!  The very power, sourced by the individual man, is what is being used to take his power away.  And it's being done under the insidious guise of seemingly benign charitable causes such as healthcare for all and saving the environment.

The power that will provide healthcare for all, that will save the environment, and life as we know it, is the very power that is being polluted and stamped out.  The world will not cease to exist, it will move forward in some fashion.  But it will not thrive as it has over the last 300 years if we willingly give up the  source of our power.  You see, the central planners may successfully grab all of the power and succeed in taking over America.  But they'll find, that once they've finally got control over this massive ship, that they had to destroy its very engine to get there.  They'll hit the gas and find that there's nothing there.  The RPMs will peg at 10,000 but the transmission will never engage.  It cannot!  You can't steal my source of strength, my free will, my liberty, my money (which represents my freedom), and expect me to give you more, when I have nothing left.  The powerful America will be but an empty shell, a carcass with no life, a semblance of what was, but with nothing left to be.  It will produce no more good in the world for it will be as the rest of the world is, empty.

The pool is rancid my friends.  It is polluted with rancor and stank.  Lady Liberty is being raped, pillaged, and plundered.  And "we the people" are too distracted to realize it.

What a somber way to start the Christmas holiday.  This may be looked back upon as the last Christmas. At least until the individual man says, STOP, and takes their liberty back.  It's not over,but we've got a lot of work to do...

Enjoy your holidays everybody.  Give thanks for the life and liberty you have, and take it back while you still can.

-dave