Thought of the Day

People seem to be agitated these days over people who are always against government action of any kind. They either say government has a place, or government can actually do a lot of good. Perhaps 50 years ago they may have been able to make a case.

But as it stands today, there’s really one thing we should all ask ourselves.

Throughout your entire life, how many different freedoms have been lost or restricted by legislation? Should be able to think of a hundred different scenarios, both minor and major pretty quickly. Now try to think of one freedom that you didn’t used to have that you now have because of government action. Good luck on that today.

When government gets this big, and this corrupt, there is no place for it to get bigger. Sure there’s plenty of reasons, but by now none are good enough.

From the second you get up in the morning, your drive to work, speaking at work, going to restaurants, changing your lightbulb, filling up your car with gas, when you shop, dropping your kids of school, and on and on, you are in danger of breaking some law almost every minute of the day. The only people these laws affect are the good people who will do the right thing anyway. Politicians and criminals will find a way around them. They are for you alone.

This is not freedom.

It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood, if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man, who knows what the law is today, can guess what it will be like tomorrow. – James Madison, Federalist Paper #62