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Radical Change

In some personal discussion threads about the Tea Party and US government corruption and the current military entanglements we find ourselves in my personal philosophy of the proper role of government has been severely questioned by my friends and myself. In thinking about this problem and reading up on history of our founding fathers and their intent as codified in the Constitution, various economic theories, and using must plain common sense many things are starting to become clear. My whole philosophy of what gov't should/shouldn't be is evolving radically right now. I have realized that as long as massive money and resources are concentrated for use by an entity (US Gov't in this case) it will be misused. 1. Our military is being misused. 2. Our treasury is being misused. If they are radically smaller than they are today the level of possible misuse is reduced the same. What does that mean? - a radically smaller military that is not capable of foreign inte...