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====== Why We Need Less-Intrusive Government ======


Elites want control of everything. Limiting government means WE, the People, need to step in and provide the guard rails. Government will not fix itself.


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|Socialist governments are the most corrupt governments in existence.  Why? - Because they regulate businesses and people the most. If you are regulated, you can get around the regulation by bribing government officials that make or enforce the regulations. More regulation equals the more corruption potential.  \\ \\ Marxist governments regulate everything. In an attempt to be more efficient, more fair, more consistent, and more equitable, big government requires permits, licenses, regulations, and control. Who enforces the regulations, permits, and licenses?  People in government do of course. These same people are open to letting their friends and those who give them money to allow ways of making the enforcement of laws and regulations less offensive. Needless to say, those people that have power and money have the means to subvert the system. Those without power and money pay in less choice, less quality, lack of availability, less protection, and less freedom. Look to Venezuela and Brazil as examples. If you want to carry a gun in New York or California, you can – if you have the right friends or money to buy the permit. Don’t like electric vehicles? Tough luck. If the environmentalists have their way, only the police will have gas powered vehicles. Don’t believe in the CO2 myth? You are out of luck again. Instead of having a choice, you get what the government dictates – electric everything – mowers, stoves, cars, buses, heating, and higher energy costs. Recent reports say that there is not enough copper to electrify everything, not to mention generating capacity.\\ \\ Those in power hate the free market. The free market is self-limiting and the government hates limitation. Keynesian economics believes that government should intervene in the economy to mediate disruptions caused by changes in the market. When the market is anemic because of technology changes, changes forced upon us by world changes, or some other catastrophic incident, the Keynesian theory says government should step in and provide incentives to right the wrong, which usually means printing more money. Government actions include decreasing or increasing the money supply, regulating business by taxes, changing interest rates, employing more people themselves, or changing laws to do what they think will bring the economy back. How did that work out in the 1930s, or the housing bubble in 2010?\\ \\ People who run the government are governed by what they feel will get them the most votes or who in power will guaranty them their jobs. Limiting government is not in the best interests of appointed or federally hired employees. Limiting government will mean less expenditures, less control, less opportunity for corruption, less regulation, more transparency, less opportunity to buy votes, and less control of everything. The ruling elites believe they know what is best for us. Have an opinion? The elites do not care, because we do not have their “superior” knowledge. Never mind that we survived 200 years without them. \\ \\ **What are the duties of government?**\\ \\ The Constitution spells out the duties of government as ”…establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty…”  Who defines “general Welfare” - the elites, government appointees, government regulators, or We the People. Individual rights were secured by the first ten amendments to The Constitution, also known as the Bill of Rights. Governments are not allowed to change these God-given rights without three-fourths of the states approving the change.  What are the “Blessings of Liberty?”  These liberties are defined in the Bill of Rights. Some elites are trying to redefine “Blessings of Liberty.” Who would have guessed what the intent of these amendments was in 1791. We have an idea, but ideas can be subverted by redefining the meaning of words.  The meaning of words is what they were defined as in 1791, not what we ascribe to them to suit our wants today.\\ \\ What much of the government does is to “promote the general Welfare.” How has that worked out? How do you define “general Welfare?” The elites these days define “general Welfare” as the enhancement of control and growing their own pocket books.  How can Senators and Representatives go to Congress as ordinary citizens and retire as multi-millionaires on $180,000 per year?  High gas prices?  How does that promote the “general welfare?”  Oh yeah, that is right. It is the environment.  We have to suffer less of everything to save the environment, which is doing just fine in spite of us.  \\ \\ Limiting the power of government is not what government does. Government grows bigger each day, week, month and year. Congress and the Presidency will not fix themselves. We have to do it for them. The Convention of States operating under auspices of Article V of The Constitution is the only viable way to limit government. The People have spoken.|


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|Created:                 |2024-06-06 18:25 GMT|
|Updated:                 |2024-06-06 18:25 GMT|
|Published:               |2024-06-06 05:00 GMT|
|Converted:               |2025-11-11 12:03 GMT|
|Change Author:           |Jeffrey Brown       |
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