Why Liberty?
The revolution was a giant step in moving power from the anointed to the individual. Now each of us has the opportunity to continue the work of our founding fathers and expand our power to run our own lives as we see fit.
Americans have unique individual visions and want nothing but the best. Americans are generous beyond what the rest of the world imagines. We want to end systemic suffering in every corner of our world and we have the optimism to do it. As individuals communities and businesses America has provided the highest standard of living in the world.
The damage we do as Americans is in the collection of power in Washington.
False promises from our government include:
- Homeland security. We have a military industrial complex whose mission is foreign nation building.
- Social justice. We have a federal bureaucracy that has gone beyond protecting the rights of all Americans to pitting one group against each other bidding for privileges and entitlements.
- Education. Education control has moved from parents and teachers to programs and assessments in Washington and Sacramento.
- They promised a rule of law for business, but instead selected special business interests that are protected from competition, receive corporate welfare and tax advantages.
- They promised to provide for medical security and we now have a bureaucratic federal monster that consumes half of all money spent on health care and creates enormous overhead and regulations that stifle creativity and will burden our children with an unfunded liabilities.
- Social security. They promised to provide for our retirement, but instead, Washington has spent our Social Security savings we trusted to it, foisting our retirement care on our children and grandchildren with trillions of dollars of unfunded retirement obligations that will break their backs.
They promised if we give them power they will end our pain. We are now taxed up to half of all we earn. What are the results? We are a nation segregated into special interest groups fighting for crumbs from the Federal pie. The reason why lobbying is the biggest growth industry in the country is Washington directs our life and liberty. Groups need lobbyists to protect their own interests. Sometimes they infringe on civil liberties and/or inflate government in the process.
We have moved so much of what is truly important to our lives, such as education, health and retirement from civil society to political society. As the size of Washington continues to grow under both the Democratic and Republican politicians, they take more and more in order to control and distribute less and less to us. Rather than cooperating to find solutions we have to fight each other for the spoils of our own labor.
Libertarians believe that everyone can win in Washington.
If our legislative, judicial and executive branches were devoted to protecting our freedom and liberty from force and fraud, we as individuals, communities and corporations could focus on unleashing our joint creativity to take care of ourselves and our communities so much better.
Libertarians believe that you know best how to run your own life. This is right and moral.
Please join me and other libertarians as we continue to enjoy and protect our unalienable rights…life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
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March 10, 2012 at 12:21 pm
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