With the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the founding fathers effectively signed their own death warrant.
The Declaration said in part "[t]hat whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends [re: unalienable rights], it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government ... But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."
Many Americans complain about the idiotic regulations and rules passed by our government. I question, though, whether we, as Americans, are willing to put our creature comforts on hold for our principles.
There is a whole host of issues and departments to take issue with. Take the Affordable Care Act; the all-intrusive Dodd-Frank law, an out-of-control EPA; the government induced energy crisis; a Department of Education that does not educate; a Department of Agriculture that feeds no one; or one of any number of other ineffective, costly, and bureaucratic intrusions into our lives. When it comes to any and all of these, we talk a good game, but we seem to be reluctant to do anything meaningful.
The Declaration said in part "[t]hat whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends [re: unalienable rights], it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government ... But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."
Many Americans complain about the idiotic regulations and rules passed by our government. I question, though, whether we, as Americans, are willing to put our creature comforts on hold for our principles.
There is a whole host of issues and departments to take issue with. Take the Affordable Care Act; the all-intrusive Dodd-Frank law, an out-of-control EPA; the government induced energy crisis; a Department of Education that does not educate; a Department of Agriculture that feeds no one; or one of any number of other ineffective, costly, and bureaucratic intrusions into our lives. When it comes to any and all of these, we talk a good game, but we seem to be reluctant to do anything meaningful.
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