Serfdom... Now!

F.A.Hayek, author of "The Road to Serfdom"

Serfdom is where we are. We should just admit it and get on with the next step.
Articles in today's paper in Sacramento.

1. State legislature here in Sacramento has gone on with the usual, normal and everyday wrangling over what to do with our money, while doing its very best to ignore those pesky "Tea Party Nuts" who have been insisting on spending CUTS.  Said legislature is proceeding with a business as usual approach in basically deciding how much more or our money they are planning to take from us and spend on stuff we mostly don't want anyway. (But who cares about what we want?)
2. We are still getting daily reports about young Americans getting killed or maimed in a country nobody here really cares about one way or another.  Fighting to establish Democracy in a tribal culture that has been in existence for literally thousands of years and basically has no interest in changing except just enough to keep the checks going through.  Anyone from Afghanistan who is really interested in freedom and democracy already lives here or is en route.  Because they know it is NOT going to happen there.  
3. In addition to Afghanistan and Iraq, BO is now getting his toes wet in Libya.  "No boots on the ground" sounds a lot like "No new taxes" from a few years back.  And what is with getting permission from the Frigging U.N. rather than our own congress.  Since when do we need U.N. permission to do anything? Creeping Socialism is no longer creeping.. It is going full bore.  
So, to fall back on the words of the framer of the Declaration and the Constitution... Thomas Jefferson

"The tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of Tyrants and Patriots."