Freedom is the lifeblood of our nation's existence.  We can no sooner do without freedom than we could without water, if we expect to survive as the greatest nation this planet has ever seen.  Our economy has cycles, this isn't news.  Whether the bulls or the bears are running through Wall Street, we're always just a few quarters from great gains, but it never stops the politicians from trying to ride a wave of public ignorance about the issues into what all politicians crave the most (successive terms in office). 

The government has now become the Hoover Dam of our Republic, controlling the freedom (represented by the water) in such a way that the people have become all but too complacent in the face of obvious oppression.  The water has to flow to the people starving from consecutive seasons of drought, yet we have a government that thinks the solution is to slow the flow to a mere trickle...and when they are honest, they will slip up and admit that they eventually intend to turn off all of the water.  That way, rather than be independent, and be able to utilize the God-given resources that this country has, we'll have to pull up stakes, and head up river, to the government reservoir. 

President Obama, Speaker Pelosi, Majority Leader Reid, and the Democratic party have made no bones about it:  they intend to control the capital of our economy and your health care.  If they can control those things, they can control you. 

Republicans were incompetent during their tenure in office.  We had a Republican President, Senate, and House, and yet there is still an IRS?!  We didn't pass the FairTax?!  Seriously, what is the point of having "conservatives" in power if we can't act boldly?  Democrats are far worse than incompetent...they are determined to take control of our lives. 

It seems that the reasonable American thinker is stuck between a rock and a hard place, but there are some signs of hope in the recent townhall meeting protests.  The answer to our dilemma will come in the primaries for the 2010 mid-term elections.  That is when we must focus, pay close attention, and put in people with the ability to act boldly!  Enough of the equivocating, and the fake frowns of concern from our elected leaders!  Let's move forward by electing people in the primaries to compete for office (this goes for incompetent Republican incumbents) who will:

1) support eliminating the IRS (just like that, get rid of the damn thing)
2) open up the free markets by eliminating government takeovers of corporations
3) support TERM LIMITS on Congress...some people are just around too long and we have more important things to focus on in this country than who is the Chairman of what committee
4) reduce the government's scope to the Constitutional limits set forth by our founders

Those simple steps are a starting point, but we have to be prepared to act.  Open the flood gates and let freedom wash over us once again!