text:  usurp your retirement investment, on and on we could go. This is nothing less than the concentration of power into the hands of a few until you have absolute despotism. Israel found this out soon after she asked for a king. England found this out after she ceded the last of her liberties to the crown. And we are finding out the very same thing as we increasingly abdicate our local concentration of power that is in the people and their representative assemblies,