I wake up from the dream, a dream of America the way it was before.Before we finally did away with all socialism.The year we did away with governments tendrils in all facets of our lives.The year we cheered loudly that the Federal and State income taxes were finally eliminated and instead a National sales tax was established, at a 3% rate, with 2% to the Federal coffers and 1% to the State coffers.

That time When we wrote The New Constitution that limits the Federal and State governments to the sole purpose of protection.Protecting our borders from any and all foreign entities, whether armies or immigrants.When we limited the government to the sole purpose of protecting the millions of miles of high iron fences that were erected around the U.S. and around each individual state.When the former military was cut by half and renamed the UPF (The United Protection Force) and relegated to guarding the fences,gates and the 200,000 Patriot Missile batteries surrounding the countries edges. Waking from this dream reminds me how things have changed.

The days are much different now and cram packed with responsibilities on every hand.I don't have to go in to work today because I am  on Road Repair duty in my area,we have to maintain our own roads now,get our own materials,maintain our own equipment,patch our own pockmarked roads and rickety bridges.
Everyone has to dedicate 3 days of the week to the local needs that  the government used to take care of, and now we must do ourselves,but we are free of socialism.

My wife has bus duty today to pick up kids and drive them to school since there are no paid bus drivers anymore.For this she will get one child credit for a month of grade school tuition for one of our grandchildren.Education is an expensive proposition now limited to those who can afford all the tuition's from kindergarten to high school,to those with the money, or to those who's volunteer work can earn them enough tuition credits to allow a child to attend school.Many just rely on neighborhood home schools, with old shared books, from the time when government provided them.

We thought gasoline would be so much cheaper once Federal taxes were removed and it was for a little while,but the simultaneous removal of Federal regulations allowed oil companies to charge as they pleased and gasoline skyrocketed to $20 a gallon.Same with utilities,removal of all regulation caused prices to soar.Very few use air conditioning in their homes anymore,it is too expensive except for special occasions and homes are mostly dimly lit at night,and everyone has learned how to make candles now. Watching unbridled TV ,broadcast by those with the most powerful equipment to seize a channel and hold on to it.Irony, watching TV by candlelight.

The hardest days are the ones when you are assigned to Refugee Camp Duty, when you have to help out at the tent cities.Soon after our day of freedom the poor and sick began to move into tent camps for survival,some of these camps stretch for miles and miles.There we boil and dish out the rice, tend the sick as we can, and bury the dead after dark.There we look into the faces in stark awareness that what we see is our future selves.

When the subsidies stopped many farms went bust,food got scarce and expensive,how long has it been since I have had a glass of milk? I remember milk coming in gallon jugs, now it is sold in 12 oz bottles for $5. It's kind of hard to imagine that people once watered lawns and had swimming pools, bathed whenever they wanted, like water was free. Now we have to take care of our own water supplies locally and it strictly rationed and in most cases poorly treated for contamination. Wednesday our house gets to run 50 gallons of water instead of our normal 20 gallon daily ration.With  a bathtub full, we will all get a bath, which we will all share in turn.

Things are different now that we are free,man how things have changed once government and it's regulations were removed.Everybody screamed socialism back then, but really are we free? What is this we have now if not naked socialism? "No to  Public Health Care" was the slogan at the time, but now, that,s all we have , health care supplied by the public, for the public, to the public.But we say we are free and we are safe.

We are safe ,we are safe, but we are isolated in our self built prison of iron fences.Our rocket defenses surround us and bristle like thorns on a cactus,and no one touches us.No one touches us,no... one... touches.. us, not for evil ,not for good. We are in solitary confinement, the light is dim through the little hole in the door,our daily bread and water slid beneath the crack ,and no one TOUCHES us. Everything has changed now,changed because,
Socialism is dead,the government contained,and we are free at last
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