Epilogue

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I wanted you to know that I am neither a Republican nor Democrat. I wrote this book because I wanted people to think about their government. A good economy has a healthy balance between the people and their government.

As I edit this book for the last time in January 2010, I become more frighten of what is happening in the U.S. economy. Many Congressmen and state legislators are in a state of denial. They refuse to bring government spending in line with revenues. Some states like California and Arizona are facing 20% budget gaps. Furthermore, rumors abound from Washington, D.C. that Congress is looking at another $4 trillion bailout package for round #2 of the financial crisis. Remember with the President Bush’s, President Obama’s, and Federal Reserve’s bailout package is already $3.5 trillion and the U.S. economy is not responding. This is worrisome!

What is the solution? The one premise you get from this book that it may not be a good idea to keep expanding government. The solution is very easy and entails two parts.

1. Keep the size of government the smallest as possible. An expanding government always creates more problems than what they solve.

2. Religion is a critical part of society. Religions always impose constraints on human behavior. They are a source of values and ethics. Furthermore, many religions espouse hard work and family values. If 99% of the population followed religion, then society functions by itself without the guiding hand of government.

The ideas in this book are universal. The more I travel, the more I see the same patterns of struggle between government and its people. It is actually quite eerie.

About the Author

Ken Szulczyk is a U.S. citizen who teaches economics in the Republic of Kazakhstan at Suleyman Demirel University. Kazakhstan is a former Soviet Republic that instituted the most market reforms. He also earned his doctorate degree in May 2007 from Texas A&M University, specializing in environmental and natural resource economics. He has taught at several universities in the United States and Kazakhstan, and also has worked for a city government in the State of Indiana.

Ken Szulczyk extensively travels the globe and has lived in the United States and two foreign countries. He has recently started to publish papers and books. He currently published three professional articles in the areas of biofuels and bioenergy, and a non-academic book, The Rise of the Insane State, which explains what is happening to the United States economy. Now he completed his first novel, where a dictator takes control over the U.S. government, building an American Empire that stretches across the North and South Americas.

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