During the first hundred years from its formation, the United States of America became one of the most powerful and prosperous countries in the world. The United States came to be recognized as being bastions of freedom, a land that embraced freedom, and a land of opportunity. People from all parts of the globe immigrated to our country in order to realize the American Dream. Its core was the belief that all people are entitled to the fruits of their labor and that the government has no authority to confiscate the property of its people without their consent.
One major reason for its immediate growth was the fact that it was a nation that believed in Scriptural principles, that the Almighty Creator, and not a man-made government, is our Provider. Its foundation also included what we thought was the implementation of sound money to be used with honest weights and measures in a Free Market economic system.
Unfortunately, in its second hundred years, certain powerful forces gained more control of the government. Measures were taken to extend that control to the monetary system and all other aspects of our lives. Also promoted was the false concept that people should expect their government to take care of them, thereby making the people subservient to the government. Efforts increased to have the federal government usurp power and authority from the people as well as states. So, too, confiscatory taxes were enacted that served to slow down and stifle the economy and cause an increasingly greater number of people to become dependent upon the government. The land of opportunity was slowly but steadily transformed into the land of entitlements.
We have now come to the point as a nation whereby the private sector is no longer capable of supporting the public sector. Government debt has grown astronomically to levels which render it incapable of ever being satisfied. Yet to placate its creditor masters, the government is striving to increase taxes even more, which will only further discourage economic growth and exacerbate our national debt crisis.
Simultaneously, in order to control the potentially hostile masses and under the banner of national security, our rights and freedom have been denied through egregious legislation. Then, worst of all, the government is getting increasingly hostile to the people. Americans have come to realize that their elected officials no longer care what they have to say. These officials are not moved by our complaints.