“Government workers are enjoying a boom time since the democrats took over Congress. The average pay of a federal worker jumped to $71,206, compared with $40,331 in the private sector.”

Government grows. The government does not create wealth or “stuff”. They only suck from the taxpayers.

I fight this battle at the local level as well and I completely agree with Barry’s comment…

We the people don’t stand a chance against the big government employee unions. It’s absolutely ridiculous how strong and powerful these organization have gotten!

Do you realize that right now the gov. is basically taking money from us (tax payers) and our retirement accounts, what’s left of them, to pay the guaranteed and over-inflated pensions of the same gov. employee union members?

Absolutely sick!

You’re right I really hope the people get some control back in 2010.

What they don’t understand is how the welfare state subsidizes corporate serfdom. Many self-described progressives and socialists are actually Luddites. That’s why you see independent business owners joining the Left camp. That’s why you see vendors selling “Capitalism Kills” T-shirts.

The Republicans have embraced croney capitalism, where Bill Gates pays a lower marginal rate for cashing in Microsoft stock than your family doctor pays for his upper middle class earnings.

Pat Buchanan is trying to organize the Luddites away from their alliance with the New Deal Left, but his mixing of small is beautiful with crochiteyness and hints of racism is off-putting to most. I’m ever-so-slowly trying to build something more mainstream and palatable, but am resource constrained at the moment.

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My hat is off to you for doing the home school thing! If all conservatives would boycott the welfare state in such fashion, it would be the end of the welfare state. But the cost is high.

I wrote my state senator about the health care bill and the state attorney general looking at the constitutionality of the bill. Two state reps sent the attorney general a letter asking him to look into it. He sent me a response via his iPhone saying he supports what is happening in TN.

Anyway, the changes have to come local. The federal elites are going to continue to ignore the Constitution. The states have the power and I think will soon be wielding it. Things may in fact get very interesting in this country.

Starting with Ronald The Gipper, we have been selling out the people of this country to some vague, ill-defined but perfectly organized movement to create one world.

It didn’t really start with The Gipper, but it was just coasting until the Guys in the California Redwoods and the Council on Foreign Relations decided to hurry things along.

We, the people, don’t stand a chance as long as there are government employee unions and unconstitutional institutions running things, starting with the Federal Reserve System.

Get ready for inflation like you’ve never seen before, confiscatory taxation and all the trappings of the police state.

It’s over.

Barry1

Anyway, next semester I’ll be teaching my oldest civics. I’ll be using the 5000 Year Leap homeschool guide and book. Thanks a bunch for the reference. I’ll check it out and see if we can use it as well.