I'm a great fan of Thomas
Jefferson, who often wrote about the limitations to be placed on a governemnt. If you look at it, the constitution
and the bill of rights are more a list of things the governemnt should not do than anything else.
From my
perspective, the primary function of the federal government is to protect our shores. That does not include
involving us in foreign wars or making us the police for the entire world. Unfortunately, our government is failing
at the most important function it has, as demonstrated by the constant flood of illegal aliens into our country and
the ready acceptance of them by so many members of the government.
While our governemnt fails to protect our
borders, it spends most of its capital doing things that can be construed as outside the authority of the federal
sphere, such as regulating marriage, instituting federal health and welfare programs and attempting to regulate how
we live. These functions are constitutionally state powers and should never have been relinquished to the federal
government.
I believe that the powers of the federal government should be sharply curtailed to the levels
intended by the framers of the constitution and the power hungry men in women now in elected office should be
replaced with a true citizen legislature. However, that isn't going to happen while we continue to vote the same
pack of liars, fools and frauds into office year after year. So long as we continue to believe the government has
our best interests at heart and the taxation is the answer to everything, that a nanny government is in our best
interests, we are doomed to failure.
Something needs to change. In my opinion, we are on a downhil slide into
socialism and that only leads to ruin eventually.
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