We need to stop worshiping our politicians and start riding them like a stolen motorcycle. And when it don't go no more, ditch it and grab another one. That's how the hijackers who are looting our treasury see things.
It's time we grow up and drop the hero worship of our politicians, Republican or Democrat. We are not here to serve our government, our government serves us. Not by giving us things but by ensuring domestic tranquility, providing for the common defense and otherwise staying the hell out of the way.
Consider this quote by George Washington:
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.This dangerous servant has plundered our treasure, made off with the silver and good china, and flings a few pennies at us as it leaves our house in flames.
This fearful master squeezes more and more out of us and gives less and less in return. Our country is in debt and the government just keeps creating more. The candyman just can't stop doling out sweets to the overweight trick-or-treaters. And it all goes on your tab.
Time to grab the handlebars and drive it like you stole it.
3 comments:
Odd that you would quote the Preamble of the Constitution and leave out the "promote the General Welfare" part.
Oversight or intellectual dishonesty?
Oversight. I was writing off the top of my head, not formally citing the document. I don't think "staying the hell out of the way" is in there either.
Promoting the general welfare is very important. Government getting involved in financial markets, picking winners and losers, "creating" jobs and handing out money to everybody is not promoting the general welfare.
"I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on the objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents."
-- James Madison, Founding Father
Post a Comment
Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.