I heard Ben Carson on the radio this morning. I haven't checked his figures, but he said it would take 55 years to pay off the debt at a pace of a billion a day... It will never happen...

I mean that my unfair share of the debt is about as much as I ever plan on earning during the rest of my existence.

Comrade citizen, what do you refusenik mean by "the debt is just too high?"

http://www.usdebtclock.org/

Oh. Uh, move along. Nothing to see here.

It is amazing that every pundit has a take on "what the message is". It is just that we are tired of government intrusion into our lives and want it to be curtailed. No more, no less. Stop trying to tell us what we can eat, how much soda we can drink, what type of light bulb or toilet we can buy. Quit trying to indoctrinate our children in liberal ways. Quit trying to interfere with our employer/employee transaction by telling us what we have to pay for work done. Reduce the theft of our wages by a to big to fail government. Reign in the EPA, IRS, Homeland Security, FEC, FCC, Department of Education and others that over regulate our existence. Listen to your constituents instead of lobbyists.

As usual, Ron Paul is THE ignored or forgotten defender of individual rights guaranteed by the constitution. I remember Fox trying to disclude him from the 2008 SC primary debates in favor of Fred Thompson, though Paul's numbers in NH placed him near the top. I like Fred, but was offended by an obvious example of how media and the 'powers that be' control our choices.

It contains a warning about the meaning of the minimum-wage referenda that also passed--in three of the same States that will now send Republicans to the Senate.

Uhhh, let's see. 00.00%

I agree. What percentage out there risk their political careers in defense of individual rights....?

Agreed. We need to define what is worth what fighting for, and on what terms. I don't feel any guilt anymore not voting for Republicans as the lesser of two evils. I have given up hope that America can be saved at this point. The debt is just too high, and there are too few who are willing to try to save America.

It amazes me that anyone sees more of a 'message' in the midterms than that different faces have been put before the American citizen to effect the same anti-liberty actions and policies that were really begun under Bush 1 and then intensified during the 90's under Bush 2 and then fired up during Obama.

We are being played. By experts. And we continue to fall for it. That is the real message of the midterms!

I don't think 'shrugging' was about fighting. It seemed to me, it was letting the wrong win and destroy themselves, while protecting some ways of living by those that could. For the serenity crew, there was no other means available to them to protect their way of lives. They were pushed to their limits and fought as a few always do.

Depends on how and where you choose to fight, I suppose.

Is the future worth fighting for anymore? That really is the question regarding shrugging, isn't it?

Serenity covered the issues that matter.

"People don't like to be meddled with. We tell them what to do, what to think. Don't run, don't walk. We're in their homes and in their heads and we haven't the right. We're meddlesome."

"What (politicians) say and what takes place ain't ever exactly been similar."

"Come a day there won’t be room for naughty men like us to slip about at all."

"A year from now, ten, they'll swing back to the belief that they can make people…better. And I do not hold to that. So no more running."
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It's up to all of us to stop their meddling now.

"The future is worth fighting for."