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The
founding of the United States was, well...revolutionary.
It
was a giant step in moving power from the anointed to the
individual. This was an extraordinary event. Now each of us has
the opportunity to continue the work of our founding fathers
and expand our power to run our own lives as we see fit.
Americans
have vision.
Americans
want nothing but the best. Americans are generous beyond what
the rest of the world imagines. We want to end systemic
suffering in every corner of our world and we have the optimism
to do it. We don't believe the world has to be the way it is.
As individuals, communities and businesses we have provided one
of the highest standards of living in the world.
But
this wasn't enough.
We
made a deal with our government.
The
most damage we have done as Americans is from the collective
power of Washington. Consider for a moment, what worries and
concerns you most about our country - and most likely the top
three issues will be political issues or abuses of political
power.
They
promised to provide homeland security, but we have
create a military industrial complex whose mission is foreign
nation building..
They
promised social justice but instead we have created a
federal bureaucracy that has gone beyond protecting the rights
of all Americans to pitting one group of Americans against
each other in a bid for privilege and entitlements.
They
promised our children an education, but have simply
moved the power of how to educate our children from parents
and teachers to programs and assessments from Washington and
Sacramento.
They
promised to end recreational drug usage and protect us from
our own moral and psychological challenges but have
imprisoned a higher percentage of our citizens, especially
minorities, for victimless behavior, than any other country in
the world.
They
promised a rule of law for business, but instead
selected special business interests that are protected from
competition, receive corporate welfare and tax advantages.
They
promised to provide for medical
security and
we now have a bureaucratic federal monster that consumes half
of all money spent on health care and creates enormous
overhead and regulations that stifle creativity and will
burden our children with an unfunded liabilities.
They
promised to provide for our retirement,
but instead, Washington has spent our Social Security savings
we trusted to it, foisting our retirement care on our children
and grandchildren with trillions of dollars of unfunded
retirement obligations that will break their backs.
We
made a deal with our government.
They
promised, if we give them the power they will end our pain. So
we gave Washington the power to tax up to half of all we earn.
We gave them the power to make millions of pages of regulations
on how to run our lives, our businesses and our communities. We
gave them the power to imprison us for our own moral
protection.
And
what are the results?
We
are a nation segregated into special interest groups fighting
for crumbs from the federal pie. There is a reason why lobbying
is the biggest growth industry in the country - because
Washington directs more and more of our lives. Every group
needs a lobbyist to protect their interests. The greedy want to
take what is rightfully ours. Others simply want to protect
what they have made.
We
have moved so much of what is truly important to our lives,
such as education, health and retirement from civil society to
political society. As the size of Washington continues to grow
under both the Democratic and Republican politicians, they take
more and more in order to control and distribute less and less
to us. Rather than cooperating to find solutions, we have to
fight each other for the spoils of our own labor.
Libertarians
believe that everyone can win in Washington.
If
our legislative, judicial and executive branches were devoted
to protecting our freedom and liberty from force and fraud, we
as individuals, communities and corporations could focus on
unleashing our joint creativity to take care of ourselves and
our communities so much better.
Libertarians
believe that you know best how to run your own life. This is
right and moral.
Please,
join me and other libertarians as we continue to enjoy and
protect our unalienable rights…life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness.
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