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Published July 20, 2008 Brownsville Herald

Submitted July 1, 2008

We are celebrating the anniversary of the declaration to England and the World that we now considered ourselves an independent self ruling nation.

Our nation began its life as a “government instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.’ It was designed that “We the people “created a government that would obey laws empowered by “We the people “. The “folks” would be the sovereigns in a nation that would work in our best interest.

It was definitely not the intention to create a nation ruled by professional politicos whose primary interests are self-promotion and personal benefit.

In the federal government one size and style for all, subsidies, programs, and entitlements are created in Washington and enforced on everyone in the country, uniformly, whether they are needed or work or not.

The lobbyists, politicos, program vendors, etc. are the real beneficiaries and rarely are the intended beneficiaries uniformly satisfied.

The Nation that was conceived in the Declaration of Independence was defined after an experiment as a confederation by The Constitution which specifically limited the powers of our representatives in the Congress to reserve power to the individual – the community – then the states.

Today, we live in a politically correct world where federal authority pervades our lives through a system of extortion of resources called taxes and the reassignment of those resources to affect control over “We the people”. More »