Citizens of this great country must wake up and realize that politicans do NOT create the economy. In fact, they bleed it, more often than not, through frivolous and zealous spending.
Likewise, the elected representatives of Main Street USA need to realize that government does not affect the economy in ways they think it does.
What really moves the U.S. financially, in all ways, is the private sector.
A healthy American business front is the only thing that is needed to turn a poor economic environment into a strong and vibrant one.
Politicians generate tons of rhetoric about "jobs and the economy" and how they have plans to improve these areas for the people.
Factually, the only jobs created (or sustained) in any significant volume are in the private sector. And each and every job that the politicos create in the public area costs each and every taxpayer more than the overall benefits produced.
Capitol Hill has, for several decades now, grown the public sector into a giant labyrinth of the economy.
Any first year student of United States government knows, in no uncertain terms, that the Founding Fathers did not endorse a vast government body reaching into all areas of society.
Quite the opposite. The federal government was formed for a few specific reasons.
They had studied many forms of government, studied the rise and fall of government, studied what makes a government good or bad when they wrote and passed the documents creating the United States.
Some knew that any government body is not ideal. Witness Thomas Paine, who said, "Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one."
The size and scope of government very much concerned them.
Consider that Thomas Jefferson said, "Most bad government has grown out of too much government," as well as, "I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."
Patrick Henry, fearing an overbearing giant, said, "The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government - lest it come to dominate our lives and interests."
They also knew that people of questionable character and morals would undoutedly gain entry to the public sector.
Noah Webster, the father of American education, wrote as warning, "If the citizens neglect their duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted; laws will be made not for the public good so much as for the selfish or local purposes; Corrupt or incompetent men will be appointed to execute the laws; the public revenues will be squandered on unworthy men; and the rights of the citizens will be violated or disregarded."
It is now a given that earmarks, which are selfish and local purposes, are aaatched by the hundreds (costing all taxpayers billions) to large pieces of legislation.
By studying well the past and present people are better able to forge the future. Here, in America, citizens need to realize that government today has grown, gradually over scores of years, into something too big to continue to feed. It has bankrupt this nation and yet those elected to represent and serve the people still expect (demand) taxpayers to provide vast sustenance for their "work."
Government must change. The United States must become, once again, "of the people, by the people, and for the people," as Abraham Lincoln stated in his Gettysburg Address, and not what it has eroded into - of, for and by the politicians.
Over For Now.
Main Street One
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