This broadcast exerpt should be rebroadcast over every media platform. I don't see aLiberal, Jihadist, Socialist Apologetic kying Prez BHO doing that other than the every US citizen rise up against the corupt structure as the anchor described and make their voices heard. Instead of sticking thier head in the sand. It looks like maybe the 10% will have to take matters into their own hands like they did in the Revolutionary War to recreate our country.

The root of our major problem: Centralized power. That is the fundamental thing I see in everything the FF tried to put in place was NO centralized power, but what was minimally needed to work with other countries so they could not screw us over or invade. The Civil War defeated all that and led to the rise of our own Kremlin.

Indeed. I was not sure of his exact meaning, but he was rather excited. Can't blame him, I have had similar meltdowns in discussions with idiots who think HillaryBeast is Jesus in drag.

Of course, profits that business have managed to keep out of the hands of government is a GOOD thing. I always applaud people avoiding taxes when they can- since whenever we succumb to taxes, we just make statism stronger in this environment.

He is sort of conflicted philosophically in this area, but is spot on as to how government is wasting our money and is run by crony deals.

You got it. That was why I asked the question. Money is just a tool that is being misused to buy power and favors. Take away the money without removing the centralized power and there will just be another method of exchange used. Take away the centralized power and the money will go elsewhere, hopefully to more productive use.

Thanks for the reply. I laughed when I first saw it, and then cried when I realized it was about 5 or 6 years old, so proof of just what an entrenched empire we are in here...

this is an important post. thanks

Yes, I figured all that out. My wife posted this to her FB thinking it was only a couple months ago, but when you think back, it was 2011, so the rot has continued for 5 more years, and the ticking noise is getting louder everyday.

Great saying! I love it. :)

I would also add lawyers, doctors and "representatives of special groups" would be banned from eligibility.One 4 or 6 year term. In order to avoid an empire of bureaucrats, you would need to limit work in it to 6-10 years, as the story would be they would have all the power because the politicos are to "new" and "inexperienced", to know what to do. We are almost, if not there, look at Lois Lerner and the rest of her ilk.

I did not quite catch on to all the nuances of his "extraction statement, and how we wqould get it back. I am assuming he is referring to all the offshore money businesses have funneled out along the line of the Panama Papers, which, has anyone noticed, flashed and died in about 2 weeks? Yet should have been the biggest story in 50 years?

Like I said, I found out later this was in 2011, he has now left the business to run hydroponic farms in SoCal for vets to transition to civilian. The weirder thing was he was on CNBC and MSNBC, and normally you never hear anything on that questioning the Empire. I liked what he had to say, as it was the truth and cuts out the feeding and looting by the special interests.

I think it goes a lot further, with "good causes" being a generic term for whatever I have an interest in, financially, socially, emotionally. Then, how can that be manipulated by someone else to get what they want as well. It creates a constant churn of demand, and ever increasing desire for money to feed those multiplying special interests. I believe the Founding Fathers specifically ignored a huge amount of "what the gov't should do" to limit that churn and trade in favors, money and power.

Which heads to the real point of it all: Where does the society's rights and responsibilities stop and become the individuals? And, what are the individuals rights and responsibilities in reverse? Most people think their responsibility is to pay as little in taxes as possible, get as much as they can, and amass as much wealth as possible. Others counter with it is to give everything you have to the "make everyones life better" department, and a smaller third group is "I take care of myself and my family, you do the same, and the twain shall not meet". The last group invariably seems ignored, because they refuse to actively support one of the 2 major groups in their desires. IMHO of course.

Thats just it: NO FAVORS, NO MONEY, NO POWER. The Founding Fathers failed to grasp the extent of manipulation people will go to to obtain all of the three.

Dobrien, one of the issues is that "the constitution" may as well not exist, in that over 200 years it has been wallpapered over with thousands of laws and regulations, Executive Orders and Supreme Court decisions, that have just diluted it's original rules and standards into the amorphous mess we have today.

Note that he seemed to have reached the end of his rope after three years of saying this. The problem with all our politics is they just ignore you until you die of a stroke or heart attack. Look at HillaryBeast, she just pretends whatever she is said to have done didn't happen, and after a while, it becomes truth to the sheeple. Then a vast right wing conspiracy.

"Just the constitution"
Thanks. That's exactly why I said working system. In my view the Constitution is not working. Ideally it should not depend on having good people in office. It's supposed to have check and balances that keeping one branch from usurping powers and the gov't from getting more powerful in general. It's supposed to work despite the normal human foibles of someone ambitions and able enough to run for national office.

Just the constitution. Thanks for your reply

"SO...?"
And so my original point that there are many good causes people can vote to fund with gov't money, leading to high spending, debt, and all that, unless there's some system to limit gov't...

"What makes you think that?"
There are so many good causes people can vote themselves money from the treasury for, and there's no working system that limits the role of gov't to prevent that.

Although far from perfect Ben Carson had the most common sense I have heard from a candidate.RIP Carson2016

SO...?