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| Mike Calpino |
Make no mistake, we are in the early stages of a worldwide financial collapse that is gaining steam. Government's attempt to give everything to everyone has resulted in moral and fiscal bankruptcy from Greece to America.
Democrats and Republicans in this country have spent and borrowed us into this mess. Last week's deal was a Band-aid on a cancer patient; it did nothing. We know it, the market knows it and the world knows it.
We cannot trust the two parties, whose only interest is the maintenance of their power, to solve these problems. More spending, debt and dollar printing are only going to make things worse, much worse.
The fault, however, lies with us. We have allowed politicians to buy us with our own money and that of our great-grandchildren. With it, they have purchased a nation of dependents and slaves, bankrupting us all.
We have traded our liberty for the immoral and inefficient redistribution of our wealth to pay for a pitiful retirement, a bankrupt health system, generational poverty, a stagnant economy and high unemployment.
Anytime government acts beyond the defense of natural rights, it distorts and destroys. Prosperity is the result of freedom, not government intervention. That should now be obvious to all.
When we stop asking government to "do" and to "give," America will return to the peace and prosperity we all desire.
Michael Calpino
Nanticoke
