You are absolutely. America was built on a free market system. Now we are at the mercy of control freaks at every angle. We are paying people to make decisions for us. That is absurd. Every citizen should be able to make individual decisions about his life and livlihood. It is nearly impossible to market a good product today without already having a “name” or working for a corporation that does not want to recognize your work. I can name many people that started from free market ideas including Walt Disney, Sam Walton, Henry Ford, and many others. Unfortunately many of the companies they founded totally corrupted their ideas and ideals.

Well put! Here’s my two cents:

The US Legislative and Executive branches have been hard at work delivering “programs” that they believe will create the Utopian society that fits their vision. They all continue to labor producing legislation and grandiose schemes which they believe will make us all happy and equal – “provide for the general welfare.”

In the not too distant past we saw the beginning of the current economic crises when elites and academics alike saw our society and determined that we had progressed to a point where every American had the right to own their own home. So they talked and talked until they figured out the appropriate legislation to set up a “program’ to achieve such ends. They hid the far-ranging costs and their ambitions behind flowery words and initial small implementation. As time went on, those very elites and academics began working outside of the governmental process, using Foundation grants and liberal donor contributions to form alliances and create community organizations. The new expanded partners for “change” allied with the new media elites to form a coalition pressuring the Congress to expand the existing programs, provide new legislation and funding, and pressure independent agencies and the Executive branches to expand that new “right” even further. That coalition, behind the powers exerted by Congress directly and through the bureaucracy, forced banks to expand home ownership to less and less qualified buyers. All this took place under the regime of Democrats and Republicans alike with the enabling interest rates from a complicit Federal Reserve.

Over two years ago, when it became clear to every citizen, that we were all in danger – reminds one of the tale of the frog put into the pot where the heat slowly rises until he’s fully cooked, Congress decided that there were not enough regulations in place on private enterprise. All the while, that same Congress ignores any regulation of the quasi-governmental corrupt entities which were the agents of Congress and their coalition partners. Then. a little over a year ago, Congress and the Executive joined with a Progressive Treasury Secretary to begin the process of central planning of the US economy. Corporate executives since then have joined the parade for the simple and corrupt reason that they have to join in to remain competitive. We new have seen most of our industries – Banks, Industrials, Manufacturers, Transportation, IT, Services, Real Estate, etc – spending hand over fist to lobby for the minimal regulation in order to remain competitive. The coalition now has grown to include nearly all facets of US life – except the lonely middle-class taxpayer. That very same middle-class taxpayer is the one who will be stuck with the costs. Those “programs” and high-minded laws with the complicity of business (formerly free enterprise) will now pass on the costs to that same middle-class taxpayer.

Last year we were quiet, having been alarmed enough in the preceeding year, when our Progerssive Treasury Secretary (Henry Paulson) acted to scare Congress and the President into the first Stimulus, prop up the Banks, finance corporations “too big to fail.” The Federal Reserve remained complicit by printing money. All those actions under a failed economic theory proposed by Keynes. This year, new Congress, new President, same old coalition of elite media, academics, Foundations, community organizations, and unions continue to plod along with that failed theory, moving the US foward towards another failed enterprise – National Socialism.

We had the second Stimulus rushed through early this year because it was imperative that the government act immediately-little of that has been actually spent over six months later. The primary effect has been dual – increase in the National Debt and increased regulation that will surprise the population as it expands government through its implementation and enforcement. A ’supplemental’ 2009 budget resolution was passed – again more debt and increase in federal government power over the populace. Next there was the 2010 Budget – more of the same. It is truly astonishing how much those three things did to the National Debt in such a brief period.

Now, despite public outrage by the middle-class taxpayer, we have both Cap-and-Trade and Obamacare before Congress and hanging over that very same middle-class taxpayer and his great-grandchildren.

In March, those taxpayers started to move and by April 15th we saw the first Tea Parties in cities nationwide where the taxpayer assembled to converse and to be heard. As our beknighted Federal Government taxed, increased the debt, took away Constitutional guaranteed liberties the movement enlarged. Congress and the Executive heard much more frequently from voters objecting, while the media mostly ignored the new activism. The coalition of elites (the Legislative and Executive Branches, academics, media, community organizers, foundations, unions, and now ‘Big Business’) are now starting to hear the grumblings; and, they don’t like it!

The academics are finding that alumni resent their Progressive positions, and are not donating. The media ignored the “letters to the editor,” disrespected the gatherings in Tea Parties; but, now feel free to paint the well-behaved demonstrators as a brown-shirted mob. The elected officials chose not to listen to the voter, instead listening to their coalition partners; and, are now faced with angry constituents if or when the official is courageous enough to go outside their DC office. I expect at some point the consumer who gets screwed by the “pass through” taxes will object to the Big Business partnership with Big Government and more selectively chose the spending of what little remains of their hard-earned income. Lastly the community organizer and union thugs who interfere and attack the taxpayer/voter/ctizen will soon find themselves either joining in the effort to take back the government or locked up. Where is the ACLU now?

Our partners (think-tanks, the NRA, civil rights organizations) have provided the expertise to examine the content of Cap-and-Trade and Obamacare. They provide us with the detailed material to educate ourselves and each new arrival to the cause. That detailed education and its promulgation is now the subject of unprecedented attack by the coalition – even the President himself lies in public and requests that opponents commentary is reported to The White House! Congress (elected representatives all) are now supposed to be back to their districts to hear from their constituents; but, almost all now are demonstrating their cowardice by hiding or meeting secretly with carefully selected supporters. Those same cowardly Congressmen call on union thugs to attack constituents who want answere – or, call the police when questioned by the ignored taxpayers.

And yet it continues ….. Congress looks for more ways to hide the effects of their bloated legislation. And, incredibly we have this …. Senators Jay Rockefeller (D-West Virginia) and Frank Lautenberg (D-New Jersey) have introduced legislation that would require annual per capita reductions in driving each year. Another bill, the National Transportation Objectives Act, introduced by Representative Rush Holt (D-Indiana), Representative Russ Carnahan (D-Missouri) and Representative Jay Inslee (D-Washington.) would require a 16 percent reduction in driving in 20 years. The Urban Land Institute, Transportation for America, Progressive Railroading (foundations, think tanks, or community organizations funded how?) has joined others to reduce our vehicle miles – wait for the SNAFU associated with the money in the Stimulus for ‘high speed rail.’

At what point will we hit critical mass? Will our Congress and President stop, listen, and act to restore the Constitution? Will “Big Business” stop colluding with big government in fear of competition or unequal regulation? Or, will we have to keep up the “shock and awe” until we successfully remove the arrogant bastards and replace them with those who will restore Constitutional Liberties?

Owners of capital will stimulate working class to buy more and more of expensive goods, houses and technology, pushing them to take more and more expensive credits, until their debt becomes unbearable.
The unpaid debt will lead to bankruptcy of banks, which will have to be nationalized, and State will have to take the road which will eventually lead to communism…Karl Marx