Dennis Prager recently commented that he has been carrying American values around in his pocket for his entire adult life.  To clarify he reminded his audience that those values appear on the coins and currency of the United States: Liberty, E Pluribus Unum, In God We Trust. He referred to these values as the American Trinity.

These observations seem most appropriate at this time in the history of America.  It’s also most interesting that Dennis Prage linked these values to the US of A’s coinage and currency.  Particularly, the idea of liberty relates directly to money.  When the government controls the money that Americans rely on for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, those inalienable rights of Americans are diminished.

In fact, throughout the recorded history of mankind, when governments control the citizenry by controlling the money that those citizens produce, those governments become facist, autocratic, repressive – even murderous.  We need only observe what’s going on in Zimbabwe, Venezuala, Iran, and North Korea today.

What’s going on in Washington DC is also disturbing.  America is on the brink of the greatest loss of liberty in its 233 year history; a loss that would be mourned equally by Democratic icons Jefferson and Jackson and equally by Lincoln, the soul of the Republicane party.  The more of our money that the US Congress and the Executive Branch controls, the less liberty we have.

It makes me proud to see and hear American citizens shouting down the puppets of the political parties and demanding the transparency and honesty we were promised during the 2008 campaign.  It will make me ecstatic when the US Congress backs away from the failed strategy that is on the table now, August, 2009.

That will only happen if Americans continue to challenge the Washington oligarchy that continues to deny we the people our voice.

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