Florida and Alaska both remained independent nations. Both maintained very good trade relations with the Northwest Confederation, the American Coalition and the Southern United States.
China established military bases all along the west coast, Nevada and Hawaii. The official narrative was that it was a humanitarian effort, but the fact that the Chinese flag flew all along those regions told a different story. The Chinese established hard military borders that extended from the southeastern border of California, up the eastern border of Nevada and down the middle of Oregon and Washington. They now held complete control of the west coast of the former United States. The region was soon recognized by the UN as a territory of China known as the People’s Republic of Western America.
This fragmented arrangement of the former United States created new tensions along the borders of the new nations and territories. The ideologies that were so close geographically were worlds apart philosophically. Still, these borders were respected and the policy of live and let live was observed by all; at least for the time being.
Matt sat on the porch next to his wife and breathed in the cool November evening air. He contemplated the dramatic events that had made so many changes in the population and borders of what he had always known as America. Karen took Matt’s hand and placed it on her slightly rounded stomach. Matt took comfort in knowing that what was left of his country would be a free land to raise his child.
His child would grow up free to worship God, free to speak, free to carry a gun, free from warrantless searches and invasions of personal effects. His child would be born a free citizen of Kentucky who would never see the effects of inflation from a central bank which steals the wealth of its people through criminal devaluation of the currency. His child would use silver and gold as money and currency. His child would keep the fruits of his labor, free from state and Federal income tax. His child would own the land passed by Matt and Karen without threat of seizure by property or death taxes. Matt and Karen’s child would live under a Federal government constrained to the necessary evils it could commit on the limited budget of what it collected through tariffs. The revenues extracted by taxing imports would have to be enough for the Federal government to perform the minimal tasks of protecting borders, enforcing contracts and very little else. Kentucky would be constrained to the revenues collected through a state sales tax. This would fund the state militia, roads and a handful of government salaries.
In Kentucky, at least, schools would be funded by parents who formed cooperatives through their churches or communities on a voluntary basis. Welfare would be the business of the church or other community organizations.
Voting in the Coalition was a privilege. Those who wanted to be involved in selecting leaders had to take a test and prove they had a rudimentary understanding of history, economics and government. Men and women had been forced to take a test to prove they were competent enough to drive a car for over a century, but something as sacred as selecting the nation’s leaders had been open to the most ignorant of men. In the end, it was the low-information voter that destroyed America.
Matt would be careful to teach his child the importance of being faithful to God and defending liberty. He would be sure to teach his child the dangers of an obese central government. Matt’s child would learn the words of George Washington, “Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.”
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Foreword
Prologue
CHAPTER 1
CHAPTER 2
CHAPTER 3
CHAPTER 4
CHAPTER 5
CHAPTER 6
CHAPTER 7
CHAPTER 8
CHAPTER 9
CHAPTER 10
CHAPTER 11
CHAPTER 12
CHAPTER 14
CHAPTER 15
CHAPTER 16
CHAPTER 17
CHAPTER 18
cHAPTER 19
CHAPTER 20
CHAPTER 21
CHAPTER 22
CHAPTER 23
CHAPTER 24
CHAPTER 25
CHAPTER 26
CHAPTER 27
CHAPTER 28
CHAPTER 29
CHAPTER 31
CHAPTER 32
CHAPTER 33
CHAPTER 34
CHAPTER 35
CHAPTER 36
CHAPTER 37
CHAPTER 38
CHAPTER 39
CHAPTER 40
CHAPTER 41
CHAPTER 42