Friday, July 24, 2009

"I Would Rather Go To Sleep Hungry, Than Wake Up In Debt"...Ben Franklin

I hardly imagine the founding fathers of this nation ever conceived that a disease, such as debt would rob individuals of their freedom. and those who remain debt free have been appointed a lifelong debt by their government. A debt so large relies unduly on the idea that there will always remain a class of individuals that have the monetary means by which the government to tax, and recover that debt. However, as this class's own wealth is raped, the thin and brittle concept of which to repay the bill owed becomes moot.

There will come a time when the people that have entrusted their freedom to such an avaricious government will become indentured servants, forced to work, and whipped by taxes, fees, levys, tolls, and dues. Their own personal debt will lock them into a prison, where the debt owed will become their sole purpose. They will cease to dream, cease to invent, cease to risk, cease to create, and cease to build. Their children will grow to learn of work as a means to pay a debt, instead of the rewards reaped from a vocation. A generation will pass, and a new school of thought will be learned, and an old belief that grew from a desire to stand independent, to forge an individual existence, and to live free.....will have died.