Unsk: Re: banking oligarchy control: You can’t actually control someone; You can either bribe them or threaten them and each method requires courage to resist. Perhaps that is the real problem.

Josh: I have always understood Wall Street as the most popular casino in America, and the house always wins. It is a stacked game and unless you are a high roller, you can make a little money but you can also lose your shirt.

no mo uro: AMEN. ’nuff said.

Deficit Hawk: Yeah, that’s all we do, keep China’s shipping lanes open. If we implode as a nation, you will want the strongest military available to keep the wolves at bay while we get our house in order.

anton, unsk, et al.: If the balloon goes up internally, you want to be in a community with its own agriculture and water source, preferably on high ground. You can’t eat gold and silver. I do invest in precious metals, brass and lead. My weapons, ammo and 25 years of military experience will be traded for my upkeep in food and water. Survival does not see race, only life or death.

Still, the optomist in me is hoping for a blood-less coup; Taking the country back from the socialists/progressives through the ballot box. Plan B would be for whole areas to stop supporting the federal government with money (taxes) and goods. The federal government can not stand on its own without our consent or support.

“That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.”

As long as the will survives, liberty is always possible.