What is the Role of Government?
I do not believe that the Democrats are single handedly destroying this country. I know that they, like the Republicans, are using both hands.
I am reluctant to sacrifice time from my family and my work, but things have gotten to the point where I have to take a stand for American principles and American people.
Our country has forgotten why we have a government and why we have a Constitution. The Constitution exists to guarantee that no one can exploit the government to further their own profit at the expense of the people.
Sadly, the basic principles that we as Americans all hold dear have been abandoned by our leaders. The major problems that we all endure find their source in the unjust manipulation of government. Government uses the problems it creates as justification for taking even more power out of your own hands. Their deception cannot be tolerated in a free and just society. If we are ever to have a government of the people, by the people, and for the people again, we cannot fail to enforce the Constitution on our representatives.
All people are equal, the color of someone's skin or their gender, sexual orientation or religion should not dictate their place in life. Everyone should have an equal chance to succeed.
One person should not be forced to pay for the mistakes of another. We need to live our lives with greater personal responsibility and rely less on the Government.
I only believe in one "conspiracy". I believe the people with money and power use it to influence politicians, who follow along either through misplaced philanthropy or outright greed, at the expense of everyone else. I realize this is not going to sound shocking to 95% of America, which is probably the saddest part about our current situation.
"The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities." ~Ayn Rand
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Top Issues:
Free Markets: Allowing governments nearly unlimited power creates the opportunity for corporations and banks to rig the system in their favor at the expense of the people. The free choices of free people should determine our economy.�
Personal Freedom: Any government that dictates morality and invades privacy is not a small government. What part of America being a free country do they not understand?�
Localize More Powers: A great deal of issues handled by the Federal Government should be handled by the States. In that way you are creating 50 petri dishes, where you can say "Look how this legislation has improved this state" or "see how their plan is bankrupting their state" as opposed to putting all our plans into a Federal Government Hail Mary Egg Basket, and praying for the best. "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." Ideally this step allows people to understand that we should localize government as much as possible, all the way down to solely protecting the rights of the individual.�
The Economy; Oversight not Intervention: Prosecuting theft and preventing fraud are proper uses of government power in our economy. Hand picking winners or losers, subsidizing monied interests at the expense of the citizens and conjuring money out of thin air are not. �
Non-Aggression: Beating everyone we meet with our big stick is not the way to win friends, but it will influence people by making them our enemies. Ending our costly foreign interventions around the globe and ending foreign aid to all countries, will guarantee our security and prosperity.�
Property Rights: Stealing the fruits of your labor for massive government wealth transfer programs is bankrupting this country, both morally and financially. People should be able to choose for themselves what causes to support with their generosity.�
"I apprehend no danger to our country from a foreign foe . . . Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from another quarter. From the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence, I must confess that I do apprehend some danger. I fear that they may place too implicit a confidence in their public servants, and fail properly to scrutinize their conduct; that in this way they may be made the dupes of designing men, and become the instruments of their own undoing. Make them intelligent, and they will be vigilant; give them the means of detecting the wrong, and they will apply the remedy." - Daniel Webster
