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For most the American history, the American dream was about liberty, and liberty meant so much to so many. It meant prosperity without too much government regulation. It meant you could be your own man or woman. Since 1013, with the creation of the Federal Reserve and the Internal Revenue Service, liberty has suffered significantly. People have less of what they earn, and pay more for what they need, or want. Monetary policy, or economy policy has a lot to do with whether liberty is preserved, threatened or abuses.

Prior to 1913, people had more take home pay from their jobs because income was not taxed. That really makes a big difference in available funds for a family or single individual. Much changed after 1913. The founding fathers fought against excessive taxation, and their angry roar was heard across the land, "taxation without representation." The American Revolution was fought primarily over the taxation issue, and over the many abuses liberty experienced.

Early Americans, like the founders, felt that the Creator bestows, or grants rights to all people. Government's job is to protect rights. The job of protecting rights was not believed to imply that government can do anything it wants to, and can tax the people for all the projects or programs that government feels is important to the people. In early America, and the people made decisions, voiced their concerns through their elected officials, and made the officials accountable to the people. There was more involvement int he political process. There was less apathy, and people were more self-educated about the issues, and the big picture in the world impacting the issues. Liberty was strong, and valued by these independent Americans.

Today, although, the American dream still lives, because nature's God still has a hand in our affairs, people have forgotten what it was like living under tyranny. Liberty is not the prized table discussion as it once was. How many people even use the word liberty in conversation. That is a word that we should be using every day. It is what the American colonial patriots risked everything for.

The big attack on liberty, and the founding principles of the United States of America came with the creation of the Federal Reserve and its tool the IRS. That institution was set up to legally take a portion of peoples' money for a number of things that were not needed prior to 1913. Congress relinquished its Constitutional mandate to coin money, regulate the value thereof, and

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