The nanny state mentality promises security and safety -- a false, deceptive promise.
- LESS FREE--that is obvious. Bureaucrats and elected officials make decisions about how we will live our daily lives, raise and educate our children, stock our kitchen, what toys to buy, who we will associate with, how to "protect" our health, etc. We are responsible for following thousands of laws, many that are just stupid and insult our common sense.
- LESS SAFE--they are wrong more often than right! Government resources (and our $$) are expended on issues that we are more than competent to handle and decide for ourselves. There are unintended consequences to far too many of these dictates. Example--fuel efficiency increases dramatically physical risk from accidents in smaller cars--we learned this by experience in the 70's. After the OPEC embargo, we were forced into smaller cars and paid a horrible price in auto death increases. But it looks like this decision is going to be taken away from us as the gov dictates to Detroit what cars it will build. Efforts are underway to take away our options for self defense in our homes as Congress makes it more difficult to exercise our 2nd amendment rights. Thomas Jefferson: The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it. Perhaps Mexicans are dying at the hands of drug cartels because gun ownership is outlawed in Mexico??
- LESS SECURE--Security comes, in part, from planning and directing our own futures. But we can no longer anticipate the intrusive arm of government. We know that the spending levels cannot be supported by the top 1% or 10% or 50% of the population--taxes must rise--dramatically. We know that SS and Medicare, the most egregious examples of nanny state, are severely underfunded and will not be able to pay out benefits for which we Paid but nanny state spent the $$ for current operations. Jefferson warned us: A government big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough to take away everything you have. For a reminder and primer on the foundations of our republic, revisit the quotes of Thomas Jefferson.
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Apparently my previous post regarding the BO administration not having the political capital to attack the 2d amendment was wrong, technically. BO's announcement in Mexico that he intends on signing a Treaty including reducing arms trade will have a direct impact on the 2d amendment. The Treaty power is the Executive branches methodology of legislating on subjects the Congress will not.
It is also notable that today, the BO EPA announced that CO2 "poses a a danger to public health and welfare." This is, of course, another end run around the legislative process. BO knows that Congress will not, even with a Democrat majority, be able to pass cap and trade legislation. However, the EPA, under the broad regulatory powers of the Clean Air Act, can impose expansive regulations that have the effect of law.
We, the People, must educate ourselves, and our friends, neighbors and acquaintances about the many different ways that the government will seek to gain more power over our lives, and that the time has come to take control back from the feds.
The TEA parties were just the beginning.
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