Recent economic reports show the extent to which supinely complacent or cowardly Americans have permitted our ruling elites to fundamentally change the United States.
Taxes, regulations, legislation, and the corresponding expansion in the size and scope of government into a monster that intrudes into every aspect of the lives of American citizens have brought almost to a standstill what had been the envy of the world -- the greatest economic machine ever to exist on this earth.
The basic nature of the nation's transformation is reflected by the most recent report on the housing market. It is in distress across the country. It's still going down in many places, barely holding its own in others, and inching up in a very few locales. The dismal bright spot -- get this and think about its implications -- is Washington, D.C., and its environs. The market is booming there.
That's hardly surprising. The parasitic seat of the federal government is waxing fat and happy on the life blood that it has been sucking out of the rest of the country.
The fundamental transformation is the change from a government that serves the nation to government that is served by the nation. Our elected officials and their minions have managed to transform themselves from public servants, servants of the nation's citizens, to rulers who are served by, command, and live large off the people.
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