Pay attention to your business!
Did you vote for your congressman, senators and the president of the United States in order for them to tell you how much you can earn?
Did you vote for them to tell you what doctor you can see and for what ailment he can treat you?
Did you elect them to direct the nation’s banking, car manufacturing, insurance or other industry?
Were they put in office by you to tell you what vaccinations you should have and in what order you can have them (depending on who you are)? Or, that you must have them?
Did you vote for your “representatives” so that they could tell you what car you can drive, what light bulb you can use, what size your toilet has to be or in what lane you can drive during certain hours?
Ladies and Gentlemen, if you voted for these people for any of these reasons (and hundreds of other areas of your choices which they have usurped) then you did not vote for a “representative”. You voted for a master.
Who are these people? What right do they have to direct us in these manners?
WE are 300 million people. THEY are – representatives, senators, president and v. president, supreme court – 496 people.
If we don’t want them, they go.
Question: Do you want them? If so, for what?
Not that long ago, elected officials concerned themselves with defense, national infrastructure, courts & justice, treaties with other nations and the like. They budgeted and raised taxes in support of those legitimate government activities. In short, they created and sustained an environment where the private sector could flourish according to it’s own direction. The private sector flourished. The government then was for the people, meaning that it set them up so they could pursue their private interests. It works.
In the present time, the government has grown itself and expanded to the point where it now wants to command and direct the private sector – that would be you, the private citizen. It wants us to work for them. Our constitution permits congress to regulate commerce, not direct it. Yet, Washington has intruded into nearly every aspect of our lives to the point where nothing of any consequence can be accomplished without a government component. You can find hundreds of examples simply by looking at the label on most anything you buy!
Our present economic troubles reflect that involvement. The private sector is not flourishing and the average government worker is paid more money (I decline the word “earns” because government produces nothing.) than the average non-government worker earns. Further to that, the “involvement” is that of unqualified people – the politicians – meddling with private sector business affairs in order to create, not a business result, but a political outcome. This led directly to the so-called real estate bubble and subsequent financial meltdown. (Sometime when you have a few minutes, look at the resumes of our 100 senators and ask yourself, “by what experience shown here, are they qualified to pass law on the details of medicine and healthcare delivery? Banking and finance?”)
Ladies and Gentlemen, anything government has, anything they are paid, they first take from us. We are each others’ security and we are government’s security. Without us, they don’t exist. Our parents and grandparents fought wars to keep us free from what’s happening here, now. Here’s a simple question: Do you want them to serve you or rule over you?
We need not tolerate the latter.
Don’t.
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