More Government = Less Freedom

Just finished reading "Glenn Beck's Common Sense". I particularly appreciate that he included Thomas Paine's "Common Sense". To understand what's so wrong today it's important to understand the context in which our federal government was formed.

We need the perspective offered by Glenn's book because we've truly lost focus on and appreciation of what made our country so unique and what's so bad about where we're headed politically. To regain that appreciation we need to understand the history of our country and what our founders intended for and hoped from our various governments.

The individual's spirit and potential were seen as paramount then but we're becoming a nation of dependents and whiners. We need to understand the insideous sapping of the spirit of the individual by Progressive (Republican and Democratic) agendas over the past 100 years or so. We also must understand the speed with which those efforts are accelerating and the extent to which they are becoming successful. There's is much about our way of life that is at risk.

The most progressive of our states is now bankrupt and is paying bills via IOU's (in effect, they're basically printing their own money which is unconsitutional). It's debt is greater than most state's entire budgets. Shouldn't that tell us something? European countries led the way down the progressive road and progressives here in American have long envied them but the Europeans finally came to understand the cost and are now reversing course (while we move more rapidly down that path). Shouldn't that tell us something?

The fundamental question is: isn't it JUST COMMON SENSE what's happening to us and why it's bad for our future? We're becoming irresponsible, dependent on the government and materialistic at great risk. We ALLOW our government to pass major Progressive-based reform legislation even though they don't read it (much less understand it's content or consequences) and in spite of the fact that most Americans are opposed to major aspects of the legislation. We ALLOW our elected representatives to treat us with disdain and disrespect, forgetting they work for us. They patronizingly tell us what they're doing is too complicated for us to understand as justification for doing what they and special interests want. They think it's their job to 'take care of us'.

Are you aware that ours is no longer a representative form of government? Are you aware that 40% of Americans have NO representation instead of a 40% say in what gets done? Are you aware we are a ONE PARTY government now that Republicans are shut out of all participation in major legislation that's bringing government control to every facet of our lives? Regardless your political party affiliation you must be uncomfortable having one political party control everything at the federal level. Common Sense tells us something's not right with that and that it's fundamentally not good for the future of our country.