IS BIG GOVERNMENT THE ANSWER

Is big government the answer to our problems? Look at your present situation and think back 5 or 10 years, are you better or worse off. I would say you are worse off. Why, because you have less discretionary spending. Prices are rising, your salary can’t keep pace with the cost of living, and maybe you lost your job or can’t pay your mortgage. Each day seems to get worse. Your investments and property values are going down. It’s depressing. What’s the cause of our predicament? I say “BIG GOVERNMENT”. Washington keeps saying they need more money. I say cut the spending, cut the taxes. Is there anything that you buy that’s not taxed? Cut the size of the bureaucracy. There are regulations upon regulations to constrain our daily lives. You can’t do this, you can’t do that... Why not use our natural resources to create jobs and cut our dependence upon foreign resources? Government believes in the redistribution of wealth. Should we all be equal? I say we need to accept responsibility for our own actions and destiny, Dependency upon government makes us lazy and we lose our creativity and resourcefulness to be free and independent.

Big government is threatening the freedoms we have enjoyed for over 200 years. Government spends too much, regulates too much, taxes too much and is beginning to dictate too much. It classifies us by different traits instead of treating us as free and independent individuals. It stifles free enterprise and initiative by it regulations and taxes. It supports favoritism and friends. Promises are forgotten and replaced with contradicting decisions. They don’t listen, they won’t read their proposals and they ignore the will of the people. What has happened to the patriotism and pride of serving the electorate? The patriots in Washington are too few. We have elected too many representatives who are self serving and devoted to their party. How do we turn this around? It’s time that we the people start paying attention and start being concerned about what’s happening to our country. If we don’t, we may lose the greatest gift we have: freedom and liberty.