HIGH IDEALS

Individual freedom is a precious commodity.  No nation on earth has ever provided the constitutional framework under which individual freedom can be enjoyed to the incredible potential that has been provided by the Constitution of the United States of America.

But our Constitution is being subverted, and our freedoms are being eroded.  We are most assuredly headed ever so steadily toward a police state of subservient slavery.  How can this be?  Why is this happening?  It is happening because we are letting it happen.  It is happening because there are powerful forces which are doing everything in their power to make it happen.

Government never exists for the benefit of its constituents.  Without constant vigilance, government will run rampart and rape and pillage the very people that put it into existence.  Without that constant vigilance, individual freedom becomes nothing more than the impossible dream.  Left to their own devices, governing bodies at all levels develop an arrogance and a contempt for the citizens that they govern.  They dole out just enough in services to guarantee reelection; or, once they have seized total control, provide a subsistence sufficient to avoid total anarchy.

We are losing it in this country, and we are losing it fast.  We are losing our cherished freedoms because we have become sadly complacent, self-satisfied and lazy.  By steadily abdicating our individual responsibilities to the warm fuzzy comfort of big government, we are allowing our individual freedoms to be stripped away layer by layer.

INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM

IS THE DIRECT RESULT OF

INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITY!

The enemies of freedom know this very well.  That is why we have become the most brainwashed country in the world.  The parasites of government know their real worth in terms of services rendered to we, the people; but they will never let you or I know what they are really worth, or we would kick them out in a heartbeat.

Well, I have news for you.  I know what they are worth.  Most of you know what they are worth.  And now is the time to tell everyone who will listen just exactly what our political leaders and their parasitic bureaucrats are really worth.

Quite a number of years ago, I was provided fairly reliable information on benefits received per tax dollar spent at the various levels of government.  I am sure that the situation has since changed for the worse, but the old statistics serve to make a very important point.

The statistics went as follows: For every tax dollar spent at the local level (city, town or county government), we would get approximately eighty-seven cents in services in return.  Not too bad.  Now, for every tax dollar spent at the state level, we would get on average fifty-two cents in services in return.  Not very good.  But for every tax dollar spent at the federal level, we got a miserable twenty-six cents back in services.

Since then, a whole new phenomenon has taken place.  With a major portion of our federal tax dollars going just to pay the interest on our massive and illegal national debt, there is no telling what, if anything, we are getting back for dollars we pay out in taxes.  Nevertheless, the old out-dated statistics point out the obvious.

Just think about this.  We pay tax dollars to Uncle Sam, which are eroded by at least 74%, and then the kindly uncle sends some of it back to the state to be further eroded by at least another 48%.  On this basis, we get 14 cents in services for each $1.00 paid in taxes to the federal government and returned to the state.

No level of government should be involved in any activity that can be handled more economically by the private sector.  Only that level of government that can provide a service most economically should be involved in that service.  For example, the private sector has consistently demonstrated that it can do almost anything more economically that any level of government.  This is the beauty of a free, competitive society.  Therefore, there is no sane reason why the government should be in the construction business, the transportation business or any other business that can be handled more economically by the private sector.

If this rule was followed, there would be very little for the federal government to do, other than maintain a strong defense and represent our best interests in foreign policy, which mostly means staying out of other people’s affairs.