One if by land......

236 years ago William Dawes and Paul Revere started their epic ride to warn patriots that the British were marching on Concord. The British hoped to capture Sam Adams and John Hancock and the American arsenal. If successful the British may have been able to put a quick end to the emerging revolution.

Dawes and Revere took separate routes in case one was captured. Although detained at a road block, the two along with Samuel Prescott managed to notify hundreds of Minutemen of the arriving British troops. On the morning of April 19, 1775, 77 Colonial Militia blocked the path as the British arrived at Lexington, Massachusetts. During the tense standoff someone fired the “shot heard around the world”. Both sides returned fire and the American Revolution had begun.

Like Dawes and Revere’s ride, this blog is an attempt to rouse American Patriots to impending threats to America. Not threats of invading foreign armies, but threats to an ever expanding federal government that are sapping the resources and reducing the Liberty of all Americans.

The unique freedoms Americans have enjoyed are the very thing that has made the United States economy the engine of the world. The US economy is what allows America to maintain the world’s only super power level military, a military that not only protects America but is the only deterrent to tyrants and dictators all over the world. Just in the last months we have seen NATO struggle to contain a third world military in Libya, both France and England have called for the US to resume strike missions because the combined militaries of NATO do not have the resources to deal with Libya’s meager army.

A US economy that is unrestricted by a meddling and intrusive federal government is the best hope for prosperity for America and its citizens……and America is the last best hope for the free world.

So as long as needed, my ride continues.

"We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt." --Thomas Jefferson

The Democrat’s unwillingness to address the insane budget disaster in the Federal Government borders on criminal. If any large corporation ran its financing as irresponsible as the government, the government would be attempting to bring the officers up on charges, remember Enron?

Let look at some of the facts, in February the Federal Government posted the largest monthly deficit ever at $223 billion, yet the Democrats refuse to cut even $61 billion a YEAR!

We are now six months into the 2011 budget year but Congress has yet to pass a budget. Even when the Democrats were in control of both houses of congress and the White House, they refused to get the work done to pass a budget. This is the first time this has happened since the new budget rules went into effect in 1974. In the last 36 years, every Congress has managed to pass a budget before the end of the calendar year - - except the band of fools led by Reid and Pelosi.

With a projected budget of 3.8 trillion dollars, and a projected deficit of 1.4 trillion, that means the federal government has income to cover only 2/3rds of the spending, the rest is borrowed. But the Democrats refuse to cut less than 2% saying these cuts are, “draconian”! Think about this for a minute, the government spends 1.4 trillion dollars more than it takes in, everyone says that we must decrease spending, but the Democrats say cutting 61 billion dollars is far too much.

How in the heck do you close a 1.4 trillion dollar short fall if you can’t even cut $61 billion?

On Tuesday the President chided Republican Speaker of the House Boehner for holding up a budget deal for what the President refers to as “quibbling around the edges” of the budget. Well, if what the Republicans are asking for is such a small issue why are the Democrats willing to shut the Federal Government down over them? Come Friday our troops in combat will stop getting paid so the Democrats can be sure the National Endowment of the Arts can continue being funded. That is one of the critical services the Democrats say cannot be cut to help balance the budget.

While the clock ticks toward a Federal Government shut down, the Federal Government spends 5 million dollars a minute. The only way this will ever end is if we hold our elected officials responsible to balance the budget.

Mr. Jefferson could not be more correct.