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Don't it always seem to go ...May 12th, 2008 by arpidoodle   ... that we don't know what we've got til it's gone ...  The problems with the US acting as an ad hoc Republic are many. On the domestic level, initiative, creativity, and independent thought is stifled. Furthermore, an unnessesary and unrequited dependence on  government for economic, social, and ethical support is fostered at all levels. Finally, the Law 'the Republic' thought best left to their sense of jurisprudence begins to become poisonous - and therefore dangerous - to both those it was meant to be applied to, and those who apply it. Not surprisingly, Republican rule affects foreign policy in the same grotesque manner. One only need take America's international image into account to see how acts of disrespect and dishonor have led to massive human rights abuse. This is the New World order the Neocons are crowing about? And they want more of the same?   Maybe we should look further into the consequences of domestic and foreign rule of law (by a few - for a few) Our seniors are housed like pound animals, our sick are turned on the street, our kids take guns to schools and worse - accept it as normal; Foreigners are drawn into wars they know nothing about, drawn into trade agreements that will cost them their means of living, and businessmen and politicians are drawn into the act of incremental financing at the cost of the environment, their countrymen, in short - their souls. People who react negatively to an equitable system of representative government are showing either partisan involvement in politics or displaying lassitude brought on by same. Eventually enough people will be touched by 'wrongdoing' to demand change. Will they remember the NI4D when their outcries of anger can no longer be ignored, or, as the song goes ...   I have tried to post with regards to finances, specifically in regards the valuation of the dollar. I mention this here because a plan is not good without action. NI4D included. While Mike is ithe plans' largest proponent, what needs be focused on is the thing of most value first, and that is money. Remember, Rothschild said "I care not who makes the laws of a country, he who controls the banks controls all worth controlling".  The NI4D should set one task ahead of all others and show how progress can be made. Should be made. By placing the value of a dollar on oil, gold, or property, one automatically sets into motion a system of capital manipulation rather than of fair dispensation. Money is made to serve people, it should not be the other way around, but when dollar value is based on monopolizable goods, humanitarian imbalance is the result. If money is made to serve people then the value of money should be based on people, period. The Ni4D could easily address this issue and produce tangible changes for the better in short order. And of course, those who think they stand to lose are going to scream like 2 year olds, and worse, anyone who would try to oust the IRS, get rid of the Federal Reserve is going to be called a lot of things - but - by a FEW people. People have worth, when they can realize that through the NI4D, the NI4D will grow enormously in stature. Solving a land dispute in a foreign country is not going to hit home the way resolving domestic needs will. After all, charity begins at home. Westerners have become so conditioned to our free enterprise way of life they instinctively cling to it - even when it is ultimately their undoing. My money says if Mike made a bigger issue of money he would get the attention the media tries to deny him. And then some. Because nothing talks louder than money.The basic formula for putting a personal value on the dollar is the same formula the dollar would adhere to in any situation. Human value. The NI4D should put a human value on the dollar first and foremost. Money talks, people will listen. Money talks volumes. Many people will listen. People don't think they are worth anything, they have to be told they are. They think their possessions are the things of value. They must be told they are the things of value. As often as it takes. Rob Jones @www.debandlongtermcare.com