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My family is always first. I was lucky growing up. I had an extended family. A highly mixed neighborhood was all equaly poor. We never knew who would be sitting at our table. we survived because we all pulled together Religon, skin color, single or married we are brothers and sisters that will survive if we all realize that our government no longer protects us. I have watched the change over the last fifty years. Like most people I was too busy with work and providing for my family to get involved with government. I had my Navy time that I thought was enough to protect our nation. I was too shortsighted to see that our politicians no longer want to surve , they want to rule Done with small steps we like the frog in the pot of water bring it to a boil the frog swims around content used to each raise in temprature as the new "norm". So it goes with all government does that pushes each new norm of mandates put in place with the stroke of a pen from the president the new norm. one man rule Knowing America would never fall by force, it will fall from within. My question I ask everyone now is what are we going to do about it? Now at 79 I havent the stamina to fight. I try to talk to young people and tell them what is happening. It is like they cant hear you. they repeate their arguments like a play rehearsed. they sound like all the news media somehow repeating their story untill its true. When government falls , and it will, only organized communities and knowlege will survive. gather to yourself the ones you can trust.--------- I, Grampa

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macDuff's avatar

you may not be fooled in the present, but you're still fooled in the past. The gov't was never about protecting you, it was always about protecting itself. Shelley's Frankenstein should have been about gov't. The minute it was born it was alive and thinking about how to have more power. You didn't see it when you were young for the reasons you have stated. Stop believing that it was ever there to help us.

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Grampa's avatar

being fooled and instructed and decieved are two different things. We believe what our parents and teachers tell us. Then as we trof in our controled fall thru life we slowly realize the truth. I started to see as I sat talking to a customer that was a frequent visator to my store. she asked to rest and I offered a chair. She was a small black woman I knew as Mey. I learned she was 104 as we spoke. I also learned she was the grand daughter of freed slaves. The story she told of her grandparents uprooted from their home and given five acres of scrub land the banks couldnt sell along with the mule half dead from hauling supplies for soldiers and no harness or plow to plant anything. No tools to build a new house to live in or seed to plant to feed themselves in their freedom. so much for emansapation! and now they try to garner their votes by offering reperations because of slavery. but what of the rest of the slaves taken that were not black? as many came from the Irish and Welsh. Oh but they were called indentured servants that even had a signed contract. I know because my cousin in New york still has the document from my distant cousin. but she signed the contract! well she made a mark. see government was as corrupt back then as now. After all how was an ignorant Irish girl that spoke only Gaelic and couldnt read or write sign or understand a contract. DETAILS? Just how does a newly wed man find time to attend rallies to change government? Well we vote dont we! We certainly see what weight our vote carries now. Years ago we all had faith that our voice could be heard. Now with the internet and more communication it is harder for government to hide its corrupton. Now that I have so many more miles behind me than lay ahead I find that because I know the facts doesnt say I have the means or stamina to object. when I did found myself ejected from a public meeting even as I was the one that was called on to speak. I was banned from the meetings but a court order stopped that for myself and others. I was able to eject these people from their little god like control of the school board. Now my travels are quite limited because riding in a car is quite painfull I must sit and converse with people on the net hoping I can induce action from some. The ignorance abounds when it comes to government. Most believing that government gives us our rights. You seem to be well read , what do you suggest people do to change it? I have a solution to part of our problem. change the way we elect our president. I propose each state elect two people. sending one to washington and the other to stay within the state. we then have fifty that could functon as president. sent to washington they elect one among themselves to stand as commander in chief. the remainder operate as his cabinet members. taking control of all the multi leter agencies. the presidential represenatives in each state shall remain in direct contact with the people. A direct pipeline of information to the person standing as our nations president. they will operate nearly the same as a regular president. the difference is that the cabinect shall control the veto pen. with the information of the peoples wishes from each state a simple majority is needed to veto a bill. The reasons for the veto shall be public record so a veto because the bill is 4000 pages long or delivered on the eve of one of congresses many breaks become public knowledge and will recieve the displeasure of the people. The only other things would be decleration of war. the commander in chief would need the aproval of the states to hold any more than a temporary police action. the other would be state aproval of presidental pardons. I offer a rough idea of my proposal that has garnered some intrest. should we have a president that violates his oath he may be removed and another installed without too much litigation. The problem has become that even as evidence is sufficent to convict it remains nearly impossable to remove a sitting president. When the voice of the people is involved they become a public servant not ruler. All the remaining cabinet members keep watch over who runes each agencies. complaints are delivered to the cabinet members who investagate the complaints. They dont get lost or sit on a secretarys desk for a year before it is looked at. So I am interrested in your opinion and input for any improvments. Critize as freely as you may because it is the only way I expand my knowlege. -------- I, Grampa

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macDuff's avatar

nice comment grandpa. Please try for your own health to start each day with fresh lemon juice in hot water, ginger would be good with that. Then all day long, drink water that you alkalinize with baking soda. If you can, get some potassium bicarbonate to alternate with the sodium bicarbonate. Try different doses, measure the pH of your urine. I think you'll find a lot of your pain will go away. Doesn't cost much to try, doesn't cost much to fail.

As for the gov't, the only solution is for the congress to vote to mint the 1 quadrillion dollar coin and use it to pay the debt. The people who want what they say is theirs will need to make change. Might be hard to break a 1 quadrillion dollar coin! When they come for their coin, we immediately take back the right of making fiat money for ourselves.

The USA has lots of resources, and the people who can't make change for that quadrillion dollar coin own patents on free energy technologies which we will seize from them when they come up a few hundred trillion short on the change from the quadrillion dollar coin.

After that, we should offer the CIA agents and NSA agents clemency against the death penalty in exchange for some of the information they've been hiding from us.

That'd be a good start.

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joe stuerzl 85's avatar

I'm 87 and I remember still what my part of the world was like at the end of W.W.2 .as a kid .We where 10 days in a box car a total of 30 people going west with the soviets not far behind .I thought sometime to write what I saw and experienced ,but there are others with more talent doing that .Often when I can't sleep pictures of smoking ruins and dead humans appear in my mind .I hope the new world the politicians are planning does not turn out like that .

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Grampa's avatar

Many have seen and experienced horrorific things that the many who want to rule did to insure the people comply. I had a friend I would talk to while going to my swimming time at my local senior center. he was 96 at the time he related the day he was rescued from Auschwitz. he was 65 Lb's. he told me of the horror's and things done to the people. Another friend from the other side of the story, A German who served in the army. not voluntary, he was 12 years old. both he and a close friend were taken at the same time given a gun ( no bullets) to stand watch over prisoners. He told me of a day midwinter he was awakened to go stand watch, relieving his friend. he found him frozen to death. I asked him what he did. he said he took his coat , shoes , pants and shirt. He was dead and they were of no use to him. In the pocket of the coat he found a food ration card that supplied him extra food for several months untill winter was over. many were forced to do many things they didnt want to. others took advantage and enjoyed the pain they inflicted. I think we have many politicians who enjoy inflicting pain because they can. It is up to people like you and I to stop them. We have seen what happens when they are allowed to continue without accountability. Joe, you can make a difference. tell any young person who will listen about what can happen when they dont oppose these corrupt politicians Tell your friends to speak up as well.--------- I, Grampa

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