Best wishes to all my American brothers and sisters on this 4th July.

[VAXman(Admin)]

It is merely historical now. Last week, we took yet another step away from Independence to In Dependence! There is nothing to celebrate today; more so, it is a morose day of remorse upon further enslavement of the people to the government machine by the shackles of over-burdensome and over-reaching taxation.


“The essence of all slavery consists in taking the product of another's labor by force." -- Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

“Slavery is now no where more patiently endured, than in countries once inhabited by the zealots of liberty.” -- Samuel Johnson

“Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers, too plainly prove a deliberate, systematic plan of reducing a people to slavery.” -- Thomas Jefferson

[Diff_Drummer]

Originally Posted by VAXman

It is merely historical now. Last week, we took yet another step away from Independence to In Dependence! There is nothing to celebrate today; more so, it is a morose day of remorse upon further enslavement of the people to the government machine by the shackles of over-burdensome and over-reaching taxation.

Amen brother! Let's hope that the people who Don't want the government to give them everything , who want to be able to keep the money that they work so hard to earn, that actually still believe in the American Dream, wake up and make their voices heard come November. If not, we may be on a slippery socialist path that we may never be able to climb up.

It is a tax...it's not a tax... COME ON PEOPLE. How many times do you need to be lied to and manipulated before you realize what is happening!

On a happier note, all of us here in the Colorado Springs area are very grateful to all the fire fighters and emergency responders who have worked tirelessly to do everything they could to protect our homes during this historic fire here. My home is safe, but I have friends who lost theirs among the 346 homes that burned. It could have been much worse, but the community is banding together to help those in need. THAT'S what American should really be about.

[TheFish]

Originally Posted by Diff_Drummer

Amen brother! Let's hope that the people who Don't want the government to give them everything , who want to be able to keep the money that they work so hard to earn, that actually still believe in the American Dream, wake up and make their voices heard come November. If not, we may be on a slippery socialist path that we may never be able to climb up.

It is a tax...it's not a tax... COME ON PEOPLE. How many times do you need to be lied to and manipulated before you realize what is happening!

yea, manipulated.

"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." - Abraham Lincoln

have you been introduced to HR 347? look it up and believe what you want. I passed with 2 dissenting votes. The bill of rights has been violated by the morons we voted for. freedom to assemble has been reduced.

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

Not any more. That is exactly what they did.

Anywaaaaaaaayyyyy:

I had a great time sitting on the porch listening to the fireworks (mostly illegal in these parts) around the city. Sounded like a battle was going on.