A Dimes Difference?: Democrats, Republicans, and the US National Debt

A Different Kind of Political Book, By a Different Kind of Political Author!

Author's
Note: To my fellow American's. I think it important that each of you
understand that I am neither an expert nor a pundit of any kind. I am,
instead, very much like most of you. I have a wife and a daughter, a job
which is ostensibly 40 hours per week but usually comes in between 50
and 60 hours, and precious little time or desire to pay attention to the
farce that passes as politics and government in this country.

So,
you are probably saying, how did this book come to be? After the birth
of our daughter I began to realize that dis-engagment by people such as
each of you and me and my wife is exactly the thing that "the
establishment" is counting on. How else could they hope to continue
enriching themselves while destroying the nation that has so blessed
countless generations before us. President Thomas Jefferson once said:

"
If we run into such debts, as that we must be taxed in our meat and in
our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our
amusements, for our callings and our creeds, as the people of England
are, our people, like them, must come to labor sixteen hours in the
twenty-four, give the earnings of fifteen of these to the government for
their debts and daily expenses; and the sixteenth being insufficient to
afford us bread, we must live, as they now do, on oatmeal and potatoes;
have no time to think, no means of calling the mismanagers to account;
"

And thus began this book. I have made my very best attempt to
provide completely factual information in the most objective way
possible, while being as entertaining as I am capable with such a
subject, and last but not least completely civil in language and tone.
The hope is that even those of you, especially those of you, who would
never "waste time" on a political book will give this one a chance. My
hope is that you will be glad that you did, and the nation will be
better off for it.

Thanks,

Charles F. Stamper

Charles F. Stamper's The Grand Old Party and The Party of the People
made a most persuasive case for the ideological bankruptcy of both the
Democratic and Republican Parties. In this most crucial time, this
ordinary working man explores the idea that both individuals and
American society as a whole are being devoured by the predominance of
the two party system.

In A Dimes Difference?: Democrats, Republicans, and the US National Debt
Stamper asks, what is the mechanism that both allures a free people and
threatens to destroy them? In the end, Stamper's message is clear: The
American republic is in great peril. The people must now choose between
liberty and the fulfillment of this most dire warning from President
George Washington: "However combinations or associations of the
above description may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely,
in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which
cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the
power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government,
destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust
dominion."