Posted on 02/24/2025 12:44:30 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
We had a limited-purpose government in place at the national level
That began to change when, on April 12, 1937, the Supreme Court lawlessly “amended” the Constitution
Mario Nawfal✓@MarioNawfal
ELON: WE NEED TO GET THE GOVERNMENT OUT OF PEOPLE’S LIVES
“I've had many conversations with President Trump, who is very much aligned in thinking that we need significant government reform.
We need to get the government out of people's lives.
And have America be the land of liberty, which is what has made America great.
It's the land of liberty and opportunity.
You maximize people's personal freedom, and make sure that getting ahead is a function of hard work and talent.
An honest day's work, that's really what should get people ahead.
That's the only thing.”
Source: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, October 2024
Remember when you sat down and read the newspaper...and then went to work.
When you came home, you ate and after, turned on the television.
And all was well.
The difference between the Mafia and the Government is, when you pay the Mafia to leave you alone, they leave you alone............
I become a broken record on this: I think it’s healthy to see the US like the EU - a bunch of mostly sovereign countries with membership in a single federation. The big difference is that the US has a standing army. That’s why Brexit could happen, but we had a civil war.
And sometimes the differences in the laws of these countries can really impact your life. Like the kid from Arizona that was a champion pistol marksman and when he drove through NJ to go to college he got pulled over and the cops searched his car and found his pistol in the trunk and he went to prison.
But someone once said that before the 20th century, the only contact the average person had with the federal government ws their mail man.
I don’t call this the United states. I call it THESE United states, like they did before the war between the states. People identified more with their state than with the Union. I’ve returned to that paradigm.
That’s why I ignore US “gun statistics”. Chicago has little to do with Fargo or Idaho Falls when it comes to gun violence.
I remember the changeover very clearly...
I continuously remind my grandchildren and great-grandchildren of the freedoms & liberties that we once enjoyed...
Excellent.
For some of us we read the morning newspaper and then later in the day, the competitor’s afternoon newspaper, if we were lucky or could afford it we might have read a 3rd competitor’s newspaper in a large city like Houston.
There was a time Americans were independent and self sufficient. We have raised a couple of generations of Americans who want to be taken care of, no matter what the cost to their liberty.
It's become a punishing, threatening all encompassing monster. It got into our cars, refrigerators, lawn mowers, media, speech, everything...
The flaw of the EU that forever separates us from them, or is supposed to, is that instead of a limited representative elected central government, they have a ruling regime of unelected bureaucrats, not unlike the old USSR.
I started realizing what an effect the DC nanny state had on our lives in the 70s. Suddenly, they were telling us how fast we could drive, that we needed to wear a seat belt, and on what days we could buy gasoline for our cars. That’s about the time I started becoming cynical and started distrusting the government.
I remember taking a Business Law class a while back, when I was first introduced to the Wickard v. Filburn decision. Immediately, I understood how we had taken such a wrong turn that was destroying our country many decades later,
it used to be that the public sector was paid lower than the private sector, but the retirement plan was better... then they were paid the same as the private sector but they still had better retirement plan...
and our taxes kept going up.
National Labor Relations Board v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation, Pierce Butler was one of the dissenting justices
SCOTUS Pierce Butler died unexpectedly in 1939.
I wasn’t around in 1938, born in the 1950s but the government wasn’t in our lives as much as I look back. It seems at times the government is getting in our lives more and more. The big leap in my lifetime was changes after 9/11 that were said to be done to increase our security.
The thing is when the government made us go through hoops to fly, and so many things that changed... then they did not secure the border, and streamlined illegals through all the hoops it makes no sense.
I don’t know how that happened. My parents raised 5 of us, all became independent and self sufficient. My husband and I raised 3 and 2 are independent and very self sufficient. One is a train wreck. I keep asking myself what we did wrong and if it was wrong how did the other 2 turn out to be so responsible?
Yep. Ignorance is bliss they say. Many times I think that I was much happier about certain things before I started learning about them. Now, I’m PO’d every time I think about them.
“I wasn’t around in 1938, born in the 1950s but the government wasn’t in our lives as much as I look back. It seems at times the government is getting in our lives more and more. The big leap in my lifetime was changes after 9/11 that were said to be done to increase our security.
The thing is when the government made us go through hoops to fly, and so many things that changed... then they did not secure the border, and streamlined illegals through all the hoops it makes no sense.”
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Good catch. 9/11 created the most profound changes in our government at nearly all levels. We had long been warned about the “National Security State” and the threat it posed to individual rights. After 9/11, we willingly sold freedom for security.
The post WWII US was built while Europe and Asia had to climb up out of the rubble and ash of WWII. That’s why the US could be benevolent and provide rebuilding funds through the Marshall Plan and multiple other funding sources. We also built NATO and the UN so small countries wouldn’t be invaded again.
All of that should be over now. It’s been 80 years since WWII, followed by another 40+ years of Red Scare that poured untold trillions of dollars into our ever growing and reequipping military. It’s time to take care of the people and families who’ve carried these loads for the last 80 years, and time for those we’ve helped to look out for themselves again.
Even before 1964, it was still small compared to now.
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