The Truth:: Turning the Lights Back on in America
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The problem isnt what the government is doing in secret,
The problem is what it is doing right in front of us, with our consent and with our money
By reading this book you will be smarter than your average college professor because you will know how to answer two questions:
What kind of people are we and how do we become the best we could be?
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The Truth: - John H. Zaugg
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Published by AuthorHouse 02/17/2014
ISBN: 978-1-4918-3771-9 (sc)
ISBN: 978-1-4918-3773-3 (e)
Library of Congress Control Number: 2013920957
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Table of Contents
Preface
1 A Nation of Lost Sheep
2 The Solution
3 Wake Up, America
4 Thanksgiving 1823
5 Boom and Bust
6 Living like Subjects
7 IRS Fraud
8 The Rule of Law
9 Becoming a New Person
Appendix
About the Author
What will be required to get the thousand-pound gorilla off our backs?
Public policies that rely on force and intimidation, allegedly to solve problems, and are used against everyone, including our children and people around the globe, will result in a very dangerous world.
Each must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, and which course is patriotic and which isn’t. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your convictions is to be an unqualified and inexcusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country. If you alone of all the nation shall decide one way, and that way be the right way according to your convictions, you have done your duty by yourself and by your country—hold up your head! You have nothing to be ashamed of.
Mark Twain, 1835-1910
waterboarding.jpgA nation running on empty
tree.jpgMoney doesn’t grow on trees.
We have got to stand for something or we will fall for anything.
Preface
This book is written for those who want to know what will be required to turn the lights back on in America.
It’s not complicated. Being human means our lives and choices are guided by our values and principles. We either live like responsible adults or descend down a slippery slope—that is the choice we are making. Individual liberty without moral values does not solve America’s problem. We must answer an essential question: what values must we learn and revere if we are to restore the future for our children?
Manifest in the Declaration of Independence is a very simple message: People should not, and need not, live like obedient subjects. Today, if you look at what is happening in the United States and how we conduct our public policies, you’ll see that the message from the American people is: We intend to live like subjects, obedient and subservient to a welfare/warfare state.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over
again and expecting different results.
Albert Einstein
Just like a drug addict, America has become a culture addicted to massive government. We are headed down this path of perpetual servitude because we have never had a discussion about what is required to live like people
instead of subjects.
What does being human mean? What is the nature of man and the foundation of civilization that makes personal liberty so important? America was not supposed to be a nation reliant on politicians. First, let’s be honest: the politicians are not doing a very good job. And second, it’s our responsibility to define what kind of nation and people we should be.
What we see happening in the United States is nothing new. This is not the first time a civilization has faced collapse.
They take our very flesh, and they hate and despise us. And who shall say we are worthy of more? When a government becomes powerful it is destructive, extravagant, and violent; it is a usurer which takes bread from innocent mouths and deprives honorable men of their substance, for votes with which to perpetuate itself.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC), Roman statesman, philosopher, and orator
We are headed for collapse for much the same reason that the Roman Empire collapsed. The problem then and now, no one wants to talk about the real problems or their solutions. The question I am posing is this: Are you prepared to discuss what kind of nation and people we should be?
In my lifetime I have never experienced a book or professor honestly assessed the challenges and flaws that now face us. Turn off the television. Put down the cell phone. Here is the discussion we need to have if we are to restore the American dream.
The question is do we want to live and be treated like people? To live like people we must refuse to support, condone, or cooperate with intimidation or harm inflicted on anyone without legitimate justification. When faced with criminal behavior and crimes against humanity, we must refuse to remain silent, refuse to cooperate, refuse to be complicit in the inhumanity. Living like people is what the concept of a free society was intended to represent. Whether it is terrorism, crime, or corruption of any kind, we have to talk about what is undermining our country’s prospects for enduring peace and prosperity. It will require some degree of courage, but we really have no other choice. We must define and uphold the values, convictions, and principles upon which our success as humans depends. Those moral values are what will make the difference between success and failure, on both an individual and a national level.
Young people, this book is about your future. You’re getting an education and learning how to become competent adults, but the knowledge you need to make the most of your opportunities in life is being deliberately distorted. You need to understand that teachers, professors, politicians, and news media deliberately remain silent on the most crucial challenges facing us. They do not want you to question the meaningless debates, reporting, and education to which you are being subjected. You’re being lied to because they want to control your choices, and your money. In other words, it is your life they want to control. What they secretly (or not-so-secretly) intend to preserve is the welfare/warfare system. The left
wants to preserve the benevolent government ideology; the right
wants to preserve the military-corporate complex. The nation (modern America) is being misled by a bunch of emperors up on stage wearing fancy clothes made of invisible thread. America was supposed to represent everyone’s opportunity in life. Instead, you’re living in a society in which you will be used, abused, enslaved, and militarized, bearing the burdens that my generation has so relentlessly and unapologetically imposed. It has got to stop, and only by standing up to the corruption will we turn the lights back on in America.
Young people what follows is a discussion of America’s underlying problems and their solutions. Here is why you’re growing up with a thousand-pound gorilla on your backs, and why today’s politicians can accomplish little more than kicking the can down the road.
My generation has taken America down a path of growing complacency and servitude, and it’s not working. As result, just like the Roman Empire, we are headed for a historic collapse.
When you finish reading this book you’re going to be smarter than your average college professor, because you will be able to talk about and answer the questions: What kind of people are we? and, How do we become the best we can be?
To become the best we can be we have to learn a very simple lesson.
We cannot solve our country’s problems by relying on government, legislation, and politicians. Ultimately, such subservience and obedience only makes matters worse. To become our best, as individuals and as a nation, we have to restore the confidence, trust, and expectations that we each must make of our lives as members of the greatest nation on earth.
1 A Nation of Lost Sheep
The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God.
Thomas Jefferson, third US president
All of us should live like people—not like doormats being pushed around by those with boots and spurs. Finger pointing and blame laying are not honest solutions. Waiting on or counting on government to solve societal problems is the flaw destroying your future. Do you know why humanity has repeatedly descended into wars, dictatorships, and poverty? Because people didn’t realize what disasters they were being led into. But ignorance is no excuse.
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
Abraham Lincoln, sixteenth US president
We should live in a free society for one very simple reason: human nature requires us to take responsibility for everything we say and do. We must not rely on force and lies in dealing with one another. If we want to live like responsible adults, we have to learn, validate, teach, and revere those personal expectations and shared principles that make human success unstoppable.