Principles only mean something when actions follow. For instance, limited government, the principle that would solve most of our problems, means nothing unless government starts losing agencies.
... limited government, the principle that would solve most of our problems...
Truer words were never written. Amoral government "charity" creates an amoral entitlement dependent class because, unlike true moral charity from churches and private organizations, it is forced and of zero moral value. Limit government AWAY from the role of charity, problem reduced.
Amoral government "antidiscrimination" prohibits the moral acts of turning away from and snubbing open homosexuality, telling it to go somewhere else. Limit government AWAY from the role of morality, problem reduced.
Amoral government decides that abortion is a privacy issue and prohibits states from outlawing it -- and THEN government, through various programs, forces taxpayers to subsidize abortion as a "right" to any American!
LIMIT government AWAY from telling the States what to do ... problem reduced.
Education is a mess because the government has totally overtaken every aspect of it, from student loans to tenure of bad teachers. Limit government AWAY ... American kids stop getting brainwashed.
Jim, a major problem is that limited government, which is small-l libertarianism defined and embraced by millions of otherwise politically ambivalent Americans who just want their freedoms back, is the key to all of this, yet a small handful of morally social conservatives on Free Republic -- totalitarian in bent, with visions of using government to enforce morality, which it has no business doing except for basic civil/criminal law -- spew vomit such as "you support homosexual child molesters and pushing drugs because you dare mention small-l libertarian" and alienate many good, sensible, moral, Christian people when this serious thing comes up for discussion.
It is a shame.