Think about it. Since our founding well over two hundred years ago, when we started off with some pretty basic rules on how to run our country, has the government EVER become smaller and/or less intrusive in our daily lives over that time? (I am talking about our federal government, but it applies to states as well.)
For the first 80 years or so it remained pretty small. But once we hit the Civil War it took off like a rocket and never looked back.
Jefferson said: "The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground."
How right he was. Things are bad enough now with the incredible intrusiveness of our government in every part of our lives, but using history as a guide, it will only continue to get worse.
The Tea Party movement is a step in the right direction, but it seems to be a like an ant facing an incoming tsunami and asking it to stop.
Right now, I have no answers on how to reverse this "natural progress of things". The only time government has gotten smaller that I know about was the result of a bloody war.
I would like to avoid that if at all possible.
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