Since the inception of the Great Society, we have been increasingly conditioned and expected to turn to government for the answers to the ills of society.  Government is not the answer to the state’s problems, it is the problem.  There are really only three things that citizens should expect from their government at any level.  We should expect the government to protect and secure our freedoms, to create an environment where the economy is allowed to grow, and enforcement of our laws.

            As the size of government grows, an ever increasing amount of money is removed from our economy to support that government in the form of ever greater taxation; taxes on our income, on our property, on our investments, on our expenditures, on businesses, on utilities, on fuel, on inheritances, and on our savings.  In nearly every aspect of our daily lives the government is taking money in the form of taxes out of the hands of its citizens, money that otherwise would have been available for people to spend, save, or invest as they see fit; assets that are no longer available for industry to reinvest in the form of research, development, and expansion.  This, in conjunction with excess regulation and red tape restricts our economic growth.

            Our freedoms are not given to us by our government, only to be taken back when they become inconvenient.  Our freedoms are inalienable rights given to us by God, our Creator and cannot be taken from us unless we willingly surrender them.  If we allow our rights and freedoms to be taken from us in exchange for perceived physical or financial security, we shall in the end, have neither.

            Government does not create jobs nor create a robust economy.  Government on its own has nothing; it only has what we, its citizens, give to it.  Government does not create wealth or goods; it only redistributes the assets it has taken.  People, through their ingenuity, labor and risk create our economy and wealth. 

            Our laws, our constitution is not based upon the laws of man, they are based upon natural law, the laws of God.  As such these laws must be upheld in a consistent manner for all citizens.  No one can be above the law, and no one can select which laws we choose to enforce and which we choose to ignore.

            Rather than turn to government, we must turn back to what made America great.  We must look to the people for the solutions to the ills that we now face.  Individual ruggedness, innovation, accountability and risk taking will provide more sound solutions to our current social and economic plights.

             

 

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