Tea It Up

"Would you tell me please, Mr Howard, why should I trade one tyrant three thousand miles away for 3000 tyrants one mile away? An elected legislature can trample a man's rights as easily as a king can."
--Benjamin Martin (The Patriot)

We have a debt and spending problem that continues to escalate. History suggests that, once debt and spending reach levels such as ours, collapse is inevitable.

To have any chance of avoiding this unpleasant endgame, we need to reverse this process. Pay down debt and save. While many individuals have begun doing just that, government appears to be stepping up their activity to compensate. As such, a hard reversal requires that we cut government intervention dramatically.

Using history as a guide, I'm not very optimistic that a reversal can be done at this point. However, I must admit to a glimmer of hope nested in the activism of these 'tea parties.' Perhaps this movement never amounts to anything. But it does spark imagination about what an active, engaged citizenry might do to disassemble oppressive government.

Should a grass roots approach like this get traction, then perhaps we stand a chance at peacefully reclaiming liberty lost. Otherwise, history suggests revolution of a much more ominous variety.