I still adhear to the oath I swore many years ago..."that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foriegn and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the office upon which I am about to enter. So help me God."
Bob
I took the same oath and I too still stick to it. Unfortunately many of those who take it do so as a means to an end and not because they ever intend to honor it.
I have held the theory for many years that our government was going the same way as the UK but we are 20 years behind. For the years I've watched the theory seems sound. If you want to see the US in 20 years, look at the UK now.
It makes no difference if you want to blame it on big business, the labor unions, the government, or whatever the fact is that major production has moved out of this country. I see no change in that trend in the foreseeable future. Government is expanding at a non-linear rate. government produces nothing and uses vast resources doing it. More of our jobs now are in the service area which is just circulating money and consequently producing less hard goods in the US. We now export large amounts of raw materials and others reap the relatively higher profit manufacturing it into usable product. In my history books this is the definition of a colony.
IMHO governments can be compared to a snowball rolling down hill on damp snow. They increase in size until they can no longer support the stress of size and disintegrate. Like the snow ball there are then a lot of little pieces that need to be reassembled or just evaporate leaving little trace of their former existence.
John
