How many people in this country truly believe that we live in a country where we are truly free to do as we please, assuming we don’t infringe upon someone else’s rights? That would be an interesting poll to see on CNN someday wouldn’t it? The next question I would ask in the poll would be how many people think that the US government is being run in accordance to the plans of our founding fathers? I would hope that the results of both polls would yield an unpleasant result for the liberal media, but unfortunately I know that it wouldn’t, because there are many Americans who are content with the way things are, and don’t want to bother questioning their elected officials actions, for one reason or another.Let’s think about the first question. If we were truly free to conduct our lives independent of any government authority, assuming our actions don’t harm others, would we be worried about trivial things such as wearing a seat belt, or a bicycle helmet? No, we wouldn’t, and we shouldn’t have to either. Think about the potential consequences of not doing one of those. In a world with no government interference, the only thing that can happen is you cause injury to yourself. No one else is going to get injured from your own stupidity in those situations. If you choose to drive your car without a seat belt, or ride your bike without a helmet who am I, or anyone else for that matter, to tell you that you can’t do it? Sure it may save your life, but the government’s job isn’t to meddle in your personal decisions.
Let’s also think about all the other ways that the government involves itself with our everyday lives.
You can’t drive a car (legally) without the prior consent of the government, by getting a license. Once you’ve gotten your license, you can’t drive your car without registering it with the government.
If you come across a nice piece of land that you wish to build a house on, you’ll have to first check with the government to make sure that the land is zoned for residential property. Once your home is built, you’ll probably want to get married and start a family. You won’t be able to do that without first a blood test, and then a marriage license. If you and your spouse for some reason decide not to have children, you may wish to get a dog, but hold on, you’ll need a license for that vicious poodle. Once you’ve finally settled into your new home, you’ll soon find that the fine piece of real estate you’ve selected qualifies for additional property taxes because it has “a nice view”. And since you’ve built such a fine home, and have a lovely family, you’ll want to do whatever you can to protect them. But you’ll have to hold off for a little while, because you won’t be able to get a gun permit until you’ve passed your background investigation, paid the appropriate fees, and filled out the proper paperwork. And even then, you’ll only be able to purchase certain types of guns/magazines/ammunition because you’re too dangerous for the government to trust with a magazine capacity of any more than 10 bullets.
When you wake up in the morning, you may wish to take a shower, or go to the bathroom, but you won’t be able to use the water that you have paid for at the pressure you want, because the government has regulations on acceptable residential water pressure. In other words, you probably won’t feel as clean as you want to feel after cleaning up the mess you made when you clogged the toilet, since the water does little more than trickle out of the shower head.
Speaking of water, say you want to put in a swimming pool in your backyard. You’ll have to make sure that you check with the town you live in, to find out how far away from your neighbor’s property your swimming pool has to be on your property.
Say you want to smoke a cigarette. You won’t even be able to buy a pack, without paying a hefty government imposed tax, which can be 50% of the cost of cigarettes or more when you include the state, city/county, and federal taxes. Even once you have your pack of cigarettes, you won’t be able to smoke in many restaurants, or other public places, because the government feels that you’re forcing other patrons of those establishments to stay there and suffer by inhaling your second hand smoke. (There’s a reason why most places allow smoking where the government doesn’t regulate it.)
All of these government interferences on our lives have no place in government, as far as the founding fathers were concerned (can you guess what my answer to the second question above would be?). By slowly interfering with our everyday lives, the government makes us less dependent on ourselves, and more dependent on our elected officials, who care, for the most part only about their personal well being. Why do we let this happen? Is it because we think the government is always going to be there to protect us from all of life’s inconveniences? If world history’s trend continues into modern day America, we’ll soon find that the government will be life’s biggest inconvenience.
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