"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground." --Thomas Jefferson, letter to Edward Carrington, Paris, 27-May-1788

"Whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, the people, if well informed, may be relied on to set them to rights." --Thomas Jefferson, to Richard Price, 1789

The news every day grows dimmer and dimmer as we watch the once greatest nation in world history sink into the depths of economic chaos.

We are perilously close to the point of no return.

If this sounds overly pessimistic and threatening to you and your well being, it's intentional. The once diligent patriots of this country need a shrill alarm before we pass the point of no return.

As a matter of fact, there are many people in high places working at seeing to it that there is no return to the republic we once knew.

Since my days as a young man who joined the Jaycees and subscribed to a creed that says in part "Economic justice can best be won by free men, through free enterprise", I have worked throughout life to perpetuate that philosophy.

My efforts in that direction, I believe, give me the qualification to speak and seek positive solutions to the state in which we find ourselves and our descendants. To do anything less would be derelict to a belief that is central to my being and, in my mind, in that of anyone who loves liberty.

The Jaycee experience served as a springboard to actively spread the tried and true experience of economic justice in my state of Georgia where I became state president of the organization which then had 130 chapters and almost 9,000 members. Our successes in Georgia led the U. S. Jaycees to elect me as Vice President of the then 350,000 members throughout America. Try as I might, I couldn't get off there. The world Jaycees, (Junior Chamber International) young people engaged at the time in an international struggle between Communism and free enterprise, elected me as international VP.

In an unprecedented move, the U. S. State Department asked me to take some special assignments in areas where ideas such as a free enterprise and economic justice were under assault by various Marxist organizations. Plans were made and carried out to visit and develop young leaders who would take the vigil in their own countries. This included visits and counter rallies in Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Canada, Mexico, Colombia, several Caribbean nations among others.

My work was coordinated by Harry Seamans at the State Department which helped arrange transportation, often "hops" via the U. S. Air Force, and accommodations at either U. S. embassies and consulates or frequently with MAG (U. S. Military Assistance) groups.

That's just a little background for a program that had no official U. S. recognition or budget, meaning I did what I did as a volunteer. You won't find much documentation about it because it never officially existed unless it somehow gets encompassed in the People to People Program that occurred at the same time.

The program was highly successful. We managed to save every nation we targeted, though Marxist organizations whom we defeated from controlling the governments still remained and remain so today.

No shots were fired.

Without spelling out the detail of all of the ills that have developed to place our endurance as a vibrant nation in jeopardy let me start with just one huge ogre that we face: Unemployment. It is far worse than the figures issued by the government more and more are finding hard to trust.

There is an answer and a lesson to be taken from the experiences I list above. It is pretty simple. Free enterprise through the development of small business. Face it, small business represents more than 90% of America's gross national product. More importantly, it hires a similar proportion of America's labor force.

"The country is filled with people who have been clueless about the economy for years. In fact, it’s worse: the country is being run by such people. There are few things you can be certain of these days. But one of them is that whatever Washington does with regard to the economy, it will be the exact opposite of what anyone with any sense would do." --Thomas E. Woods, Jr., Feb. 27, 2009