FreedomPatriot @[email protected]

@a96a35a224402b8075c4da20f0477896afcc3395b6fad63e30a648a8222a6a69 @freepatriot

I do not agree at all. Democracy is steady decline.

Periodic insanity is better than continuous; just as Constitutional democracy is better than Absolutism.

If you cannot have freedom and a balanced budget then why did the USA have freedom and a balanced budget in 1835?

https://www.newsandsentinel.com/uncategorized/2017/02/is-our-government-legitimate/

@a96a35a224402b8075c4da20f0477896afcc3395b6fad63e30a648a8222a6a69 @freepatriot

Constitutions are easily inverted with amendments.

The voters periodically go insane and they always want a jubilee.

We have laws and Constitutions to impede that.

Without those, there is only force.

Those who say 100% of the US budget pays for welfare are wrong.

@freepatriot

No, it's just three-quarters of the budget that goes to welfare, entitlements, and subsidies.

However a lot of the remaining quarter has been converted into the same by regulations.

@a96a35a224402b8075c4da20f0477896afcc3395b6fad63e30a648a8222a6a69 @freepatriot

They will quickly find a way around that.

Voters play the victim until free stuff arrives.

https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/021115/how-long-has-us-run-fiscal-deficits.asp

@freepatriot

No entitlements

You're right about the present system, but it could be changed.

Cease to enforce usurious contracts, and no one will buy interest-bearing bonds.

Or enforce the original Westminster principle of "no parliament may bind its successors" and then every election would be a sovereign default

@freepatriot

You cannot have both democracy and a balanced budget

The people vote for "free" (debt spending) stuff.