Posted by
Cary Wesberry on Friday, July 04, 2008 2:47:46 PM
In the course of human events it is necessary, now and again, to dissolve our political bands with the ninnies who keep abandoning our founding principles.
It used to be self-evident that our government's role was primarily to protect certain unalienable rights, such as life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
It used to be that our government did the bidding of the people -- that any power it derived was solely through the consent of the governed.
It used to be our country believed in limited government -- that government at its best was a necessary evil and should be aggressively restrained.
But too many of the birds running things these days don't see it that way.
In 2008, the federal budget is more than $3 trillion -- up from $1.7 trillion only a decade ago. Republicans, who once preached fiscal restraint -- they even tried it for a few years -- ended up growing government more than Democrats ever dreamed.
Things are getting worse in a hurry.
Take on a gimmicky mortgage bigger than you could afford? Not to worry. Our esteemed Congress is pushing through a $300 billion bill to bail you out with taxpayer dough.
Struggling at the pump now that energy prices are at record highs? Not to worry. Some of our politicians promise to tax energy companies lots more so they can pay your energy bills for you.
Think it's unfair that some Americans, through education, hard work and risk, are making good incomes? Not to worry. Though the "rich" already pay the lion's share of taxes in America, some politicians want to tax them plenty more so they can transfer more goodies to you.
Sound like the ideas of a government founded on life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness?
They're not. They're the ideas of the "Takings Coalition," a term coined by Grover Norquist, author of "Leave Us Alone: Getting the Government's Hands Off Our Money, Our Guns, Our Lives."
The Takings Coalition is composed of trial lawyers, labor unions, big-city political machines, government workers and contractors, nanny-state radicals and lots of other folks who benefit as government size and power expand.
The Takers "view the proper role of government as taking things from one group and giving them to someone else."
Continue reading by following the link above to Front Page Magazine. Great work by Tom Purcell writing for the independence of taxpayers from the tax users. No, it's not some twisted American nightmare bed-time storybook tale; it's happening right before our very eyes. Economic Hell imposed upon us all by the socialists interfering in our soveriegnty over this country. We the People are now We the Tools. You and I cannot be trusted with our own money because we are too stupid, clinging to our guns and religion, to know what to do with it. Only the government is wise enough to take care of us and save Americans from themselves. Think it's not happening right now? Go fill up your gas tank and get back to me.