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The Big D Voting for the Politics of Prosperity
Every generation needs a new revolution.
Thomas Jefferson, Author of the Declaration of Independence and Framer of the US Constitution.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson
Most people hate politicians and politics.
Occasionally we do something about it with pragmatic American Can Do.
Now is the time.
We wrote The Politics of Prosperity in 1994 before an electoral sea change that did not quite live up to the promises of The Contract with America. Politics as usual submerged the mountain of liberty.
If we really value and profit from contrary independent opinion, let US consider government and politicians rarely keep their promises, particularly when they must now as we approach the breaking point.
Big bad bank moral hazard incumbent recumbent guv may fail at engineering recovery or even widely expected inflation again.
We dare say this because we are avid students of economic history and reality. There is no free government lunch or perpetual permanent plateau of prosperity.
Government wars on everything that moves debilitated the economy and general welfare, getting US here to this fine mess and pretty pickle today.
We may be in the early stages of the Greatest Deflation, the Jubilee Prosperity Decades of Winter we have not lived or seen since 1771, 1821, 1875, 1908 or 1971 wars and revolutions.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kondratiev_wave
Most people fear revolution and fight the last war status quo as it slips through our fingers.
