Posted on 04/18/2012 9:31:13 AM PDT by Josh Painter
A million other competing and more prominent issues usurped by the Federal government, general ignorance, and a total lack of alternatives.
Its the people on the other-side of the Federation you can’t see that are easiest to hurt.
Although in all honesty it doesn’t much matter who is stepping on who. In almost every case the stepping was supported under the guise of “helping people”.
You see politicians have made their carriers out of using unbridled government power to “solve” problems they define, while sudly overlooking the fact that they are stepping upon other people’s rights in the process.
The very idea that Washington was not meant to solve all the problems in the world is almost unthinkable to most of them. The concept would undercut their whole mindset in Washington. Leftist perhaps as much or more than any other group suffer from this dangerous dilution. They have been locked into the idea that Governments are capable of reshaping the nature of men.
But all the government is, is a Gun. Force that robs people of their free will, nothing more, nothing less. Leftist like to say you can’t solve every problem with the gun, maybe they should take a good close look at what they long been trying to do with the Government.
For the same reason people badmouth Congress while reëlecting over 90% of them every year - it's always “the OTHER guy's” representative that's bad, not MINE!
Limit gov’t to protect MY rights, you bet - but “the OTHER guy” over there needs to be watched, you know...
Power corrupts, the more power the more corrupting.
Your right without even a moral compass we are in real trouble. There was a very good reason the Texas Constitution was written to prohibit any athirst from holding any office of trust under Texas. If a man or woman does not fear the divine consequences of God he or she is all the more corruptible in life by power.
If we did not have a the idea that the Federal Government defines not only its own limits but the limits of our States in regard to domestic government as well, to the point where we could not even require in our constitution such commonsense measures to mitigate the cost of the corruption of power. Our life, property, and liberty would be in a far more secure position today.
Instead and for the last 150 years we have had a lawless Federal Government bound only by its own discretion.
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