The Pursuit of Growing A More Intrusive Government
By: Doug Busselman, Executive Vice President
On the drive home the other night I heard the talk show host, Mark Levin share his opinion that the purpose for the Obama Administration’s legislative full-court press was to destroy Capitalism. Naturally, those types of ideas raise eyebrows and sighs of “good grief” you conspiracy nuts come up with the weirdest things…
Actually, there is probably good reason to give this notion some credence. As Andy Matthews of the Nevada Policy Research Institute has written here, those who champion greater involvement of government in our lives are firmly of the mind-set that we can’t get by without the good that they are working to provide. The other side of the same coin, less personal freedom, reduced opportunities, negative consequences for success, etc. all seem to be worth giving up (for those who believe in having government take care of them) because taking personal responsibility is just too much trouble.
Given the response we are seeing in the reactions of the American public this August, we hope that in their private moments of thought, our elected representatives might be doing some recalculating about slowing down their agenda for growing the federal behemoth. Ideally though the voters who have been riled over what they see happening will not calm down, recognizing that the key to dealing with the leaders of the agenda for greater domination can only be sent packing through the ballot box.
We in Nevada have an opportunity to be directly involved in sending the message of rejecting greater government control of our lives. As the citizens in South Dakota did several election cycles ago, we have the chance to clearly indicate our desire to see something different come from Washington, D.C. than the approach that is being pursued by the U.S. Senator that we can do something about.
On the drive home the other night I heard the talk show host, Mark Levin share his opinion that the purpose for the Obama Administration’s legislative full-court press was to destroy Capitalism. Naturally, those types of ideas raise eyebrows and sighs of “good grief” you conspiracy nuts come up with the weirdest things…
Actually, there is probably good reason to give this notion some credence. As Andy Matthews of the Nevada Policy Research Institute has written here, those who champion greater involvement of government in our lives are firmly of the mind-set that we can’t get by without the good that they are working to provide. The other side of the same coin, less personal freedom, reduced opportunities, negative consequences for success, etc. all seem to be worth giving up (for those who believe in having government take care of them) because taking personal responsibility is just too much trouble.
Given the response we are seeing in the reactions of the American public this August, we hope that in their private moments of thought, our elected representatives might be doing some recalculating about slowing down their agenda for growing the federal behemoth. Ideally though the voters who have been riled over what they see happening will not calm down, recognizing that the key to dealing with the leaders of the agenda for greater domination can only be sent packing through the ballot box.
We in Nevada have an opportunity to be directly involved in sending the message of rejecting greater government control of our lives. As the citizens in South Dakota did several election cycles ago, we have the chance to clearly indicate our desire to see something different come from Washington, D.C. than the approach that is being pursued by the U.S. Senator that we can do something about.
Posted by Doug Busselman at 8/28/2009 10:08 AM 
Categories: 2010 Elections
Tags: Government Expansion Nevada Opposing the lefist agenda
Categories: 2010 Elections
Tags: Government Expansion Nevada Opposing the lefist agenda
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