Ben Bernanke, in a recent article on Yahoo! News, says that tax increases may be required to pay for new massive entitlement programs. Great timing, right? Couldn't have have mentioned that before we decided to pass a Trillion dollar healthcare bill or stimulus package? We've got to wise up to the constant lies espoused in Washington. Nothing is free. If we don't learn to curb our spending, we'll end up on the bad end of a total economic meltdown.

The only way to build wealth is through savings. However, the stock market bubble of the past few decades has given people a spend,  spend, spend mentality. Check out this article by the Mises Institution the Collapse of Personal Savings.

America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She well knows that by enlisting under other banners than her own, were they even the banners of foreign independence, she would involve herself beyond the power of extrication in all the wars of interest and intrigue, of individual avarice, envy and ambition, which assume the colors and usurp the standards of freedom. -- John Quincy Adams