Day of Reckoning

Devvy Kidd has recently written that voters need to take a hard look at who they support, and determine if that candidate really cares about the long term survival of this republic and our children’s future? The destruction of our nation has been underway for nearly a century and the buzzards are circling. America used to a self-sustaining, self-reliant, productive nation. We have seen the destruction of our most important manufacturing and industrial jobs by unconstitutional trade treaties, which have stolen the fruits of our labors. We’re very close to becoming a beggar nation, because Congress and the White House are bought and paid for by mega corporations, who depend on wars to stay in business.

The quagmire in the Middle East will continue to suck up trillions of borrowed dollars, and has made us less safe. Military contracts to the favored companies of the Bush regime have already run into the hundreds of billions of borrowed dollars, since there’s no money in the treasury.

In “Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic”, author Chalmers Johnson points out that America suffers from an overabundance of public ills, which can be traced to militarism and imperialism. Our constitutional system of checks and balances has nearly collapsed, but none of the remedies proposed by politicians address the root causes of the problem.

Andrew Bacevich, author of “The New American Militarism” insists: “None of the Democrats vying to replace President Bush is doing so with the promise of reviving the system of check and balances. The aim of the party out of power is not to cut the presidency down to size but to seize it, not to reduce the prerogatives of the executive branch but to regain them.”

These are the reasons, Ron Paul would be the best candidate for president.