in case you forgot...

While most of America is blindly basking in booze, cookouts, and fireworks, our nation is crumbling.  Independence Day has become just another excuse for a party and not much more.  Sure we still have the best chance in the world to get ahead here...but at what price now and for how much longer?  Every day personal responsibility is exchanged for government control.  I celebrate where we came from but I dread where we are going.  The consent of the governed is what really worries me...

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,