That By Which the Red Fire Burns

That which has been is what will be,
That which is done is what will be done,
And there is nothing new under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 1:9

While initially encouraging from its appearance, Tuesday nights elections had a very familiar tone to it, as if we had all been down this path before. Could it be the destruction of the Republican party in 2008 on the back of "Hope and Change"? No. Perhaps it was the "Red State Mandate" of 2004? No, that's not it either. Surely it must have been the "Contract With America" of 1994?

Whatever your take, America has once again voted for Liberty and politicians and once again they shall be disappointed when they receive more of the latter and less of the former. Such is the way with men, tempted by so much power. If only... becomes the vehicle by which the child slaves are offered up to the insatiable fires of Moloch.

For on the horizon, the enemy comes into view. Countless times he has deceived the good people into thinking that he is their friend and Liberty is the mortal enemy of safety. Even now, the song beckons the new class, lulling them into a compromise which they should not accept and we cannot afford.

For as I write this, the death of the dollar rolls into view -

The Federal Reserve will probably introduce an unprecedented second round of unconventional monetary easing tomorrow by announcing a plan to buy at least $500 billion of long-term securities, according to economists surveyed by Bloomberg News.

This will become the largest issue facing the country in the year to come. With a plunging dollar, capital wealth will follow, housing prices will crash, unemployment will soar and the people will become desperate. If only...echoes as a log is placed on the fire to keep the embers alive for one day more. Surely if we give them our children, then the hunger will be satisfied.

This is not a problem that started in 2008 and certainly not one that will be fixed in 2011. It is an endemic issue that has infected our entire way of thinking be it of the Red, Blue or Purple persuasion. The rampant fraud plaguing the housing sector will surface as a cancer that will destroy the residual value left in this once great nation. If only...we spend our way into prosperity, then we shall see an end to this calamity and the country will place it's final foot into the graveyard of history.

Despite all of this, the cure is not to be found in the immediate past. Rather we must capture a page from the obstinate among us. Those of us that refuse to "do something" about these problems and emphatically allow the free market to work.

1. Cut taxes - Across the board
1. No VAT or Fair taxes, you have enough money.
2. End the property, income and various taxes which eat away at our prosperity
2. Prosecute the fraud in the banking system
1. Simply put, jail the corrupt bankers.
3. Cut the size of government by 1/3 at least.
1. Start with your checks. We've already given you ours. 
4. No new wars.

History is a harsh master and if it is to be believed, most, if not all will fall by the wayside of Liberty to heed the call of political expediency. Yet, all is not lost, for out of this fire and calamity that surrounds us will forge the constitutions of the next great generation to govern this country.

There once a madman, a criminal rejected by this world who said the following -

"Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it."