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<p><span style="font-family: verdana, lucida, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; color: #000000; ">The end of America as we know it is near. This can be a good thing or a bad thing. We are at the place where we will return to the remarkable and wise foundations on which the nation was built, or we will cease to be a Republic at all. Which it will be will likely be determined in 2012. </span><span style="font-family: verdana, lucida, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; color: #000000; "><br /></span><span style="font-family: verdana, lucida, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; color: #000000; "><br /></span><span style="font-family: verdana, lucida, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; color: #000000; ">This is not to say that this will happen next year, but the choices we make over the next year will determine how we end up, and then we will get there very fast. Remember the saying, “If you do not change your direction, you will end up where you are headed”? We are now headed toward an ultimate collapse and meltdown of America as we know it. If this happens, we will not just morph into some European style socialism. As we can see, that is failing too. The alternative is the worst kind of totalitarian tyranny. </span><span style="font-family: verdana, lucida, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; color: #000000; "><br /></span><span style="font-family: verdana, lucida, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; color: #000000; "><br /></span><span style="font-family: verdana, lucida, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; color: #000000; ">The 2012 elections will no doubt be the most important of our lifetime and maybe our history. Even so, all of the choices that will determine our future are not just about the elections. Our government is in crisis, and if radical change does not come next year, we will not survive as a Republic much longer.</span><span style="font-family: verdana, lucida, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; color: #000000; "><br /></span><span style="font-family: verdana, lucida, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; color: #000000; "><br /></span><span style="font-family: verdana, lucida, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; color: #000000; ">I received a huge response for my recent evaluations of the Republican Presidential candidates, virtually all of which were very positive. I will do more evaluations as there is such an obvious desire for this. However, first we need to discuss what I think is the biggest issue facing our nation at this time—one that the candidates are addressing only superficially and the Administration is not addressing at all. </span><span style="font-family: verdana, lucida, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; color: #000000; "><br /></span><span style="font-family: verdana, lucida, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; color: #000000; "><br /></span><span style="font-family: verdana, lucida, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; color: #000000; ">Let me also preface this by saying that I am not implying this is the most important issue facing our nation at this time, but the biggest, and it is the one that has the potential to sink the ship before the others do. Therefore, it must take precedence until it is resolved, or we won’t have a Republic much longer.</span><span style="font-family: verdana, lucida, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; color: #000000; "><br /></span><span style="font-family: verdana, lucida, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; color: #000000; "><br /></span><span style="font-family: verdana, lucida, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; color: #000000; ">I also don’t want to make the judgment that none of the candidates understand this issue. The debates are mostly driven by questions asked by the media moderators, who seem to be almost completely blind to this primary issue. </span></p>
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