It is a case study in liberalism to take the approach that anything goes if Congress considers a person wealthy. Since there will be a small minority of people affected, politicians reason they may appropriate (steal) the assets of certain Americans and use it to distribute to others they feel are more deserving. Government will confiscate businesses and farms handed down through generations of hard work, sacrifice, and entrepreneurship. The value is not in an annual income; rather it is in the land, structures or a name built with pride by someone's desire to pass it along to future generations in their family. People forced to pay these excessive taxes, may be forced to sell the assets, thereby losing the business or farm. The heavy, greedy hand of government has the attitude that all wealth, income, property and land belong to government and that they are benevolent enough to allow you to use it and keep a portion of the profits for a time. This tax is worse than the crime of grave robbing. At least grave robbers do not steal from the living heirs of the deceased. Politicians who vote for these taxes have no shame and somehow lost their moral compass once they smelled that sweet aroma of Washington power.

Tyranny is a virus that spreads through a country one class at a time. Will you be the next selected group to feel the hammer of the federal government? Who will stand with you when government decides to take your property or liberty? When Obama and this congress finish stealing from businesses, will there be any geese left to lay the golden egg of job creation that have made this country the envy of the world? Poor people will provide few job seekers decent-paying jobs. This Congress and Obama have the intention of installing a totalitarian regime to "fundamentally change our country" and change our way of life – the American way of life. This is but one of the foundation blocks this regime is laying in their attempt to destroy our Constitution.

If we do not find the time to unite and fight these tyrants, we certainly will find the time to grieve for our beloved country when it has faded into the past and becomes but a footnote in the grand story of time.

One of the most unfortunate human conditions is a failure to learn from our mistakes. When governments fail to learn from their mistakes and refuse to enforce the law, people die. 

The 9/11 attacks revealed numerous weak links in the chain of our national security – some small and some large. The common thread running through all, however, was that these weak links were all well known and publicized before the attacks and ignored by our government. This whole disaster would not have occurred had the cockpit doors been locked and Visa and immigration laws been enforced.

We spend billions of dollars sending our young men to die defending borders around the world; then billions more trampling the rights of our own citizens in a futile defense of a terrorist attack already logged into the annals of history. As usual, government is several disasters behind and their response to everything is creating another massive bureaucracy and restricting the rights of American citizens.

Congress and President Bush, and now, President Obama would rather use smoke and mirrors by increasing the size of an unwieldy and ineffective bureaucracy that finds more value in frisking mature ladies at airports and relieving them of their nail clippers, than concentrating on preventing future attacks by protecting our borders and enforcing immigration laws.

Everyone knows our weakness, including our enemies. Millions of illegal immigrants are still invading. Despite warnings, our government, in all its arrogance – continues to ignore the enforcement of our laws to curb the invasion. Politicians cave in to the avarice for cheap labor by business and demonstrate a complete lack of common sense by bowing to the political correctness of the liberals in the Democrat and the Republican parties. It has become politically incorrect to mention illegal aliens.

It is the responsibility of the federal government to protect our borders from invasion. We simply cannot allow this lawlessness to continue. There are legal means for entry and immigration to this country. Our policy and the numbers allowed are some of the most liberal in the world. It must be enforced, or we will become another third-world country, unable to provide for our own citizens or maintain any semblance of law and order. Let’s embrace and implement the immigration policies of Mexico. They have some of the most stringent laws in the world.

Does anyone truly believe we will not pay another terrible price if we, again, fail to heed the warnings and learn from our past mistakes? One day at a time and one disaster after another will sooner or later bring us to another disaster. Washington will once again use it as another reason to control us…not the real problem.

Of course, Obama’s perfect objective is to wave his magic liberal wand and declare all illegal aliens to be legal. Presto, problem solved!

Freedom is more than a word; it is an attitude. An attitude of independent thought and rugged individualism brought here and nurtured by men from countries throughout the world set to ruin by centuries of religious persecution, economic depression, oppressive governments and contempt for any concept of free thinking and individual rights. Most did not come with riches nor did they expect the government to provide them with riches. They asked only for the fertile ground of opportunity and independence. This fertile ground alone would enable them to achieve anything their abilities and hard work would allow.

The struggle for our freedom has become increasingly difficult to maintain. With our blessings, career politicians feeding at the government trough, have helped to corrupt our political system. They have no qualms about taking our money and selling our freedom for votes. They regale in people who cannot handle freedom and the responsibilities that go with it. Politicians thrive upon people who allow the government to make their decisions and take care of their needs. This institutionalization of America is a cancer growing in our Republic and is destroying the foundation of every principle this great land was founded upon. This cancer is eating away at our Constitution.

A woman called a talk show and exclaimed, “Our government gives us way too many freedoms!” She is typical of a growing number of Americans who believe government gives us our freedoms. The U.S. Constitution gives us our freedoms. Government can only take them away and only we can protect and preserve them.

The Constitution clearly spells out government's role and its limitations in our lives. Our independence from the government is a collection of personal freedoms called the Bill of Rights. Each time we allow politicians to take more money or enact more laws, we lose our freedom, and government gains power. When we resist, they pit class against class, race against race, and rich against poor - telling each group how dangerous it would be for others to have freedom and how much more secure everyone would be if we gave up a few more rights. Politicians convince people they can better spend their money by promising equal results over equal opportunity.

Freedom can, at times, be quite untidy, and weeds will grow among the roses, but if we use the Constitution as our guide we will know what to pull and what to leave in our garden of America.

America has been the beacon of light in a dark and dangerous world. If we do not go back to the Constitution and hold our leaders accountable, I fear our best years are behind us. Remember, Obama promises, "To fundamentally change" this country, and he is just beginning!