I'm always impressed that I have been alive for fully one-third of this country's existence. When I was a tyke, the population here was 135 million. Now it's over doubled!. Then World War 2 came and went. Green or khaki men civilian clothes were not to be seen for many years afterward.

My first shock along the way was circa 1952 when the Swedish wife of an acquaintance casually noted that Swedish families with children were given government allowances for raising them! Unheard of here then.

Fast forward to Kennedy,immediately succeeded by Johnson who started the impossible "war on poverty" which only exacerbated the problem.  The 1960's also erupted a social upheaval.

Then the gasoline shock of 1974 came; we were aghast. In previous decades and especially all through WWII, The USA was an EXPORTER of gasoline and oil, but no more. The 1970's also lit the flame of accepted inflation. I noted that a distinct inflation-mentality ("it will always cost more next year") now persisted routinely in everyone's mind.

We are seeing the manifestation of ALL these trends in the present Liberal administrations campaigns for "Change". To me, this governmental tyrannical intent is to deliberately impress new laws and regulations aimed at making government the primary mover and shaker, for the convenience of that government, for its Regents, and without any support from the general population except their knee-jerk vote during elections.

Our Constitution was written circa 1790 to deny said government the opportunity to do so. Study of the Federalists Papers (http://campanellaacoustics.com/ange/Fedpsort.htm) reveals grave concern by Madison, Jay and Hamilton that the Regency of government might tyrannically deprive USA citizens of one or more of their inalienable (e.g. guns) rights. The sad, sad fact today is the intransigence of our Congress and especially the House, about doing anything about said tyranny. Many of our Congressmen are now AWOL regarding their pledge to uphold the Constitution. Congress must now redress this wrong.

Progress's problems

Conservative fundraising and advertising effort problems stem from being diverse and widespread to the point of being uncoordinated; a random walk instead of a bee-line. We now know that a good part of this has been Liberal sabotage via the IRS, now outed. There an be others. This requires a policy reversal. Another dilution is is diverse start-ups. I collected a week's worth of mail asking for donations... a pile over an inch high; no two are alike. Efforts by conservatives and especially republicans to consolidate these efforts into a bee-line to America's prosperity.