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The Best America can Hope for

The best thing we as the American Public, Taxpayers, and Consumers can do for ourselves as we look to 2023 figure things out is to get ourselves prepared for what we know is on the horizon. We're definitely on the knife's edge of Decline both Foreign and Domestic, the point is to mitigate whatever the damage that'll come with that.

• We cannot expect Government to solve the very underlying problems that it created to begin with. We certainly cannot expect Government to make anyone whole when the same US Government cannot even balance its own checkbook or secure its own Borders. There's hard work that's going to have to be done to get the United States and its Citizenry out of the Economic and Financial cesspool that's come about. The manufactured Coronavirus Pandemic, the 2020 Roll of the Dice (aka Election), The FTX Scandal, and subsequent Recession has reminded Taxpayers of this fact. There aren't going to be anymore Bailouts from the Government, We The People have to roll up our sleeves and bail ourselves out by doing things the Old Fashioned way and hard work.

• We need truely healthy Free Market Economic and Monetary Policy so American Taxpayers and Consumers can be able to take full advantage of the benefits and keep the Fruits of their own Labor, also able to grow and keep their Wealth.

• We need Foreign Affairs based on what the Founders understood to begin with; Trade, Commerce, and Honest Friendship with other Countries but entangling Alliances with none. A Foreign Policy that Talks, Negotiates with, Trades with, has Cultural exchanges with. We never use Economic Warfare or any Warfare against any Country without a Constitutional Declaration of War from The US Congress first! We treat other Countries the way we ourselves want to be treated. You can't bark about Human Rights when you don't practice it yourself.

Seasons Greetings to all...
• Most importantly, we must have a Limited Constitutional Government that does away with the so called Nanny State. The less Government we have, the more Freedom the People have. The Government that governs least governs best...
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Broache73 · 46-50, F Pinned Comment
The American Welfare/Warfare State is disintegrating before our very eyes and we have runaway Inflation as far as the eye can see since the 70s. Others have an opposite opinion or belief system, that's the whole point of a discussion. It's isn't ideological or delusional to see our oncoming Train Wreck and wanting to protect oneself from the Collateral Damage. Getting upset with the Person who's telling the truth about the reality of the failure of our Government to deliver on everything that it ever promised is utterly ignorant, rather than being pissed at utterly Corrupt Politicians and Bureaucrats (everyone voted for and went along with) who made these promises and never delivered. I've studied and read about Constitutional Government, of we had it we wouldn't be forced to bear responsibility for and it'd solve where we find ourselves today.

The real problem is the US Citizenry accepted the idea that Government can and should provide them the very things that they can actually do for themselves and have the power to do for themselves. Seeing the track record of the US Government, any sane Person sees that Government causes the problems they're supposed to solve and/or exacerbates problems for the Public they claim they want to help.

A Constitutional Government provides the conditions for Prosperity for Poor People, the Middle Class, and the Rich due to Sound honest Money, Purchasing Power, Balanced Budgets, Low Cost Goods and Services, and no Taxation without Representation. The Citizenry keeps the Fruits of their own Labor and has the advantages of taking care of themselves.

A Constitutional Government produces National Defense required to keep the Citizenry safe from Terrorist Threats both Foreign and Domestic. The American Public, Taxpayers, and Consumers are Free to Travel, Trade, and have Cultural exchanges back and forth with whomever they please. We'd threaten no one, dictate to no one, and we'd respect the Sovereignty and the Sovereign Territory of other Countries. That'll rid the United States of Terrorist Threats and Terrorist Attacks, rid the United States of the pretext of Wars for Oil, Wars of Aggression, and Wars of Attrition. A National Defense means that Government doesn't take Money from it's Poorer Citizenry then give it to Rich People in Poorer Countries and it ending up being Weapons of War against.

I don't see how anyone could possibly be against the idea of Peace and Prosperity for all, Free Trade and Commerce for all, and Honest Friendship and Cultural Exchanges between whomever you want. Others live their lives the way they see fit and are treated as individuals, In 2023, Constitutional Government helps EVERYONE since Constitutional Rights are treated equally, Equal Justice under the Law, Others are Free to create Wealth/Capital. Commerce, Trade, etc. would be respected where you couldn't commit Fraud, Malfeasance, or Aggression against ANYONE without going regardless of your LAST NAME.
MethDozer · M
@Broache73 The Welfare State is there in the interest of the rich owner class, not the poor. It's not there to give people "free stuff" it's there so the "employers " don't have to pay amd povide for their workers and to promise them an ample supply of surplus labor.
walabby · 61-69, M
@Broache73 I don't think that you can call the current US inflation rate of 7.1% "runaway". It is higher than is comfortable, admittedly, but nothing like, say, 1923 Germany...
Broache73 · 46-50, F
@Broache73
Everyone gets to be treated the way they themselves would want to be treated