The Error of Big Government
Posted on | October 7, 2013 | No Comments
This current government shutdown has given us some amusing hashtags: from the simple #HarryReidShutdown, #ObamaShutdown, #ShutdownTheater to the hilarious #SpiteHouse, #PresidentStompyFoot, #ShutNado
Though I do believe most of the #Barrycades (and #Harrycades) are just so much spoon banging by a petulant & vindictive administration, they certainly serve as an illustration of the famous quote*
Perhaps that is Obama’s clumsy point. His biggest opposition comes from those opposed to big government spending…and big government control. He may well have seen this as an opportunity to “show everyone” just how terribly important we should think all that big government is.
What he has illustrated by closing open air monuments to veterans, blockading scenic overlooks & private businesses, kicking home owners out of their own homes, and even attempting to close the ocean is just how big the government is – and how much control we have allowed it to have. And how very much we need to take that control back, back to “We The People” where it belongs.
And, in Barack Obama’s attempt to show us how big and important the government is, he has clearly illustrated how truly small and unimportant he himself is.
* Yes, I know it wasn’t Jefferson, but the quote is still good and I like the pic.
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They Said It:
You compare the nation to a parched piece of land and the tax to a life-giving rain. So be it. But you should also ask yourself where this rain comes from, and whether it is not precisely the tax that draws the moisture from the soil and dries it up. You should ask yourself further whether the soil receives more of this precious water from the rain than it loses by the evaporation?
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