12-21-2008, 10:40 AM
This debate is one of my all time favorites - large, intrusive government vs. small, minimal impact government.
We do need a government. We need a government to protect us from enemies, crime, disaster, etc. We need a government to establish sensible laws and penalize those who break them.
What we do NOT need, nor should we have, is a government that protects us from ourselves while giving us everything we could ever want. It is up to the INDIVIDUAL to create wealth and/or success for themself. We ALL have the same opportunities. We can get a high school education, and if you want, a college education. If you're poor, those opportunities are even more available, because you can get it handed to you.
It is not government's job to provide companies with a check to correct the company's poor business practices or give everyone health insurance.
What this country needs is fewer elected officials who want to establish or change law through litigation, and more who want to get laws written/modified by the ballot.
We do need a government. We need a government to protect us from enemies, crime, disaster, etc. We need a government to establish sensible laws and penalize those who break them.
What we do NOT need, nor should we have, is a government that protects us from ourselves while giving us everything we could ever want. It is up to the INDIVIDUAL to create wealth and/or success for themself. We ALL have the same opportunities. We can get a high school education, and if you want, a college education. If you're poor, those opportunities are even more available, because you can get it handed to you.
It is not government's job to provide companies with a check to correct the company's poor business practices or give everyone health insurance.
What this country needs is fewer elected officials who want to establish or change law through litigation, and more who want to get laws written/modified by the ballot.