Government of freedom

Our founding fathers created a system based around a small Federal government in order to ensure that we, the people have maximum freedom and say in our lives and what we do with them. It was a great concept and one which led to the quickest rise of any nation in world history. The United States became a superpower economically and militaristically in less than two hundred years. Small government made us the greatest nation ever and at the same time gave us more freedom than any people had ever experienced in the civilized world.

Despite the success of limited government, we have drifted away from those ideals over the past century and we are finally starting to see it all catch up to us. We now seem to think that we need government in order to function, but upon further scrutiny it is clear that we really don’t.

In theory, big government may seem good, but in practice it just isn’t. With every new government agency or program we, the people are forced to pay for it. We pay for it with our money through taxes and our liberty through restrictions and violations of privacy.

Not only are we forced to pay for big government, but it just isn’t sustainable over time. For example, look at social security. The program is quickly headed towards bankruptcy as the baby boomer generation starts to collect their funds. The incoming tax revenue just isn’t enough to cover the costs of the payouts. Unless something is done, the government will end up having to close the program and leave millions of Americans who paid their income taxes without any assistance when they retire. Essentially, the government will end up stealing these people’s hard earned money unless something is done.

Sadly this is the story of big government. At first the idea seems great, but it just doesn’t work. Not only that, but it gives the government more power through the taxing systems and with that it limits the people’s freedom to do what they want with their money. Instead of having the government provide services such as social security, why not just allow the people to save the money for retirement on their own? Don’t tax the citizens for it and don’t give them the money back later on. We must learn to trust the people with their own money. Big government has an underlying idea that the government must baby the people because they can’t take care of themselves. Is this really the way we feel about ourselves and fellow Americans? Shouldn’t we have control over our own money instead of having the government tell us what to do?