Creditors and others – including fumble bumble fiscal f..lishness and monetary mayhem, an inflation kicker, withheld investment for fundamental uncertainty, hyper-elevated risk premiums, and other-national strategic benefits – could have taken federal money out of it.

Patriots could have taken back power.  Occasions of sorts might have blocked the pathway.  And still more acultural, energetic, unconventional, quickly applied actions – jointly or severally - could have denied the trip past Lady Liberty down freedom’s hill on the road through socialism and downward into Amarabia, an empire the other side of paganville.  Hoorah.

“Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”  Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776

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