Posted on 09/02/2014 10:18:24 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax
The fragile topsoil of freedom and enterprise can be clogged with the hardpan of regulations or blown away by the evil winds of progressivism. There are simple ways to draw from Subsoil (the combined application of the principles of subsidiarity and solidarity) See here for more details: http://www.principia-scientific.org/chaos-and-subsoil-where-science-prospers.html
Lawmaking and bureaucracy must incorporate Subsoil into the conception, design and government operations to preserve the American Way of Life as the Founders intended. Sworn Constitutional officers must honor the solemnity of their oaths to protect and defend the Constitution in spite of political agendas.
Five important questions must be asked, truthfully answered and applied with integrity:
1. Will this new law help or hurt initiative or personal responsibility? Is it an entitlement, or will people be challenged and motivated to exceed the laws intended goals? Are the people allowed to do their best when challenged?
2. Does the legislation or the bureaucracy it authorizes benefit the wider community without focusing on special interest groups (selective privilege) save for specific needs of the helpless? (Were all needy were not all helpless!)
3. Will this legislation put people or regions in a box? Are individual and community initiative and uniqueness subordinated to a rigid plan for central control through taxes, financial manipulation or bureaucratic overreach in environmental, health, welfare, immigration and energy policies
4. Will the legislation require major government oversight or will it...
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Make all the analogies and similes you want but the truth of the matter, as shown by history, is that once freedom is lost to despotic governments it is rarely ever restored, at least not peaceably. If you want to wait 500 years for another USA to come along and restore your rights go ahead and give them up for the bowl of porridge now being promised.
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