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America now beyond point of no return

FROM MARK POTTS WEAVERVILLE

Is America headed for another revolution? With the federal government larger and more oppressive than ever and growing faster than rabbits reproduce, sadly I think it is ultimately inevitable. The federal government is rapidly becoming the very tyrannical entity that "we the people" threw off in the 18th century.

Things started going down hill fast for the nation with FDR's "raw deal." It not only painfully lengthened the great depression, but more importantly initiated the beginning of the end of our Federal Republic by transferring too much power from the people to a centralized federal government in violation of constitutional authority.

President Obama is now oneupping FDR's catastrophic political miscalculations with his own enormous pork bill that will stimulate nothing but a huge deficit and a yet more powerful centralized federal government.

This does not bode well for a government that is already so big and unconstitutionally out of control our Founding Fathers would not recognize it.

You would think an educated man like President Obama would be smart enough to look at the historic failure of FDR's economic philosophy and go another way. Why does he think implementing the same failed economical tactics of the past will have a different outcome now? Aren't we supposed to learn from our mistakes? It has to be a premeditated acquisition of governmental power.

I believe that we have traveled so far down the road away from constitutional government and those in Washington have sequestered so much power they will have to be forcibly removed to transfer the power back to "we the people" where it rightfully belongs.

In military special ops we used an acronym when infiltrating behind enemy lines. That acronym is "PONR". It means the point of no return. Sadly, I think this nation is now beyond the point that the matter can be resolved politically. Armed revolution may be necessary to save the ship.