Freedom Can Only Work When We Do
By: Doug Busselman, Executive Vice President
We’re told by various self-promoting pieces that our elected officials in Washington, D.C. have saved or created so many jobs – (31,000 in Nevada alone…according to at least one such mailer). The reality is that while reading this bunk we have over a 10 percent unemployment rate on the national level and over 13 percent in Nevada. We also have record levels of red-ink from the run-away spending these same elected officials burned through saving or creating all the jobs that they want us to believe they got for us.
There does not seem to be an end in sight for the further expansion of the federal or Nevada government. Those in control believe to their core that bigger government is necessary and far more important than the private sector, which exist to fund the wants (packaged as needs) of government programs.
Matthew Spalding’s “We Still Hold These Truths – Rediscovering Our Principles, Reclaiming Our Future” offers significant insights into the importance of four critical categories of civic virtue and why they serve in a time-tested formula that works. These pillars of success include:
All aspects of these concepts fly in the face of the socialistic solutions advanced by those maneuvering us in the current direction and away from the principles of freedom we should be striving to strengthen.
“Government as the solution” tears down values which provide us with the ability to achieve the results which can bring successful conclusions.
We lose sight of the reality that government handouts can only be delivered after actions which take away from those who can provide jobs and economic advancement. Expectations of assistance transform into righteous entitlement. This is fed by class-envy arguments of elected representatives and government officials who rant/rave on about their success in the noble cause of providing for the collective “we”.
Social engineering activities use taxation and regulation to force advancement of government’s centrally-determined, non-competitive options at the expense of more viable, market-determined approaches. Artificial crisis are manufactured and stimulated through media outlets to establish political legitimacy as justification for greater government intrusion into areas where government doesn’t belong.
Instead of accountability for the results of this agenda to enslave the private sector – those who have been in the forefront of legislating the downward spiral – prescribe more of the same elixir that has us in the shape we are in. Promoting their accomplishments as achievements instead of the failures they really are.
The change we need (instead of the “change” we got from 2008) can only be achieved through election of legislators (state and national) who actively strive to limit the reach of government’s hand and poisonous embrace. Sweeping tax and spend, big-government officials (regardless of political party affiliation) out of office will get us started back in the direction that experience and common sense has proven successful.
We’re told by various self-promoting pieces that our elected officials in Washington, D.C. have saved or created so many jobs – (31,000 in Nevada alone…according to at least one such mailer). The reality is that while reading this bunk we have over a 10 percent unemployment rate on the national level and over 13 percent in Nevada. We also have record levels of red-ink from the run-away spending these same elected officials burned through saving or creating all the jobs that they want us to believe they got for us.
There does not seem to be an end in sight for the further expansion of the federal or Nevada government. Those in control believe to their core that bigger government is necessary and far more important than the private sector, which exist to fund the wants (packaged as needs) of government programs.
Matthew Spalding’s “We Still Hold These Truths – Rediscovering Our Principles, Reclaiming Our Future” offers significant insights into the importance of four critical categories of civic virtue and why they serve in a time-tested formula that works. These pillars of success include:
- Self-Reliance
- Assertive and Spirited Citizenry
- Knowledge of Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship
- Self-Restraint and Strong Sense of Personal/Public Moderation
All aspects of these concepts fly in the face of the socialistic solutions advanced by those maneuvering us in the current direction and away from the principles of freedom we should be striving to strengthen.
“Government as the solution” tears down values which provide us with the ability to achieve the results which can bring successful conclusions.
We lose sight of the reality that government handouts can only be delivered after actions which take away from those who can provide jobs and economic advancement. Expectations of assistance transform into righteous entitlement. This is fed by class-envy arguments of elected representatives and government officials who rant/rave on about their success in the noble cause of providing for the collective “we”.
Social engineering activities use taxation and regulation to force advancement of government’s centrally-determined, non-competitive options at the expense of more viable, market-determined approaches. Artificial crisis are manufactured and stimulated through media outlets to establish political legitimacy as justification for greater government intrusion into areas where government doesn’t belong.
Instead of accountability for the results of this agenda to enslave the private sector – those who have been in the forefront of legislating the downward spiral – prescribe more of the same elixir that has us in the shape we are in. Promoting their accomplishments as achievements instead of the failures they really are.
The change we need (instead of the “change” we got from 2008) can only be achieved through election of legislators (state and national) who actively strive to limit the reach of government’s hand and poisonous embrace. Sweeping tax and spend, big-government officials (regardless of political party affiliation) out of office will get us started back in the direction that experience and common sense has proven successful.
Posted by Doug Busselman at 11/28/2009 6:57 AM 
Categories: Government
Tags: Election 2010 Matthew Spalding Government
Categories: Government
Tags: Election 2010 Matthew Spalding Government
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