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The only chance we have is to restrict the influence of corporate funding/patronage.
All of those ideas are just changing the direction of the big government machine and not shrinking it. If the federal government were smaller and had less influence on business there would be no need for your three ideas.
While many like to pontificate on how our Founding Fathers did things, most of them feel they must overlook the overriding theme of our Founders.
Liberty.
Many more want freedom for themselves but regulation for others.
Neither of the two major parties promote liberty. They want more and more of our personal lives regulated.
Have you ever stopped to think about how many restrictions and regulations are currently placed on your personal liberty at the local, state and national level?
In the past, I have voted Dem because I didn't care for the proposals of the GOP to continue infringing on my social liberties. The Dems, of course, infringe upon my economic liberties.
What gives? When will this end?
Congressman/Dr./Vet Ron Paul has taught me so much this election cycle.
FREEDOM IS POPULAR!!! Seize it!
The GOP & DNC don't want us to have personal liberty. They can't control us when we have true liberty.
How can we stop this out-of-control train??
Afraid of liberty?
That statement is nuts.
Unaware of liberty is more like it.
In current day America, liberty is reserved for corporate entities, not citizens. Unless you're a citizen with tremendous resources at your fingertips. The rest of us get the illusion of liberty through gadgetry.
Relax, as long as you have your smart phone and i-pad, you're OK.
maybe, but it does look like people are afraid of freedom and liberty. all they want is another check from the goverment, and for the feds to grow even larger.
in the end, that sort of equation will do nothing but destroy the republic.
In current day America, liberty is reserved for corporate entities, not citizens. Unless you're a citizen with tremendous resources at your fingertips. The rest of us get the illusion of liberty through gadgetry.
Relax, as long as you have your smart phone and i-pad, you're OK.
Very true. We've had a monstrous and ever-growing Federal Government influenced for decades by a small number of people and have been at wars for 10 years. At home, imprisonment rates are through the roof.
It seems Americans are numb but carefree so long as 'Jersey Shore' and the new I-Phone is out next Month.
We all underestimate the power of the media and the stupidity of average people. This includes myself. Do you know how many people became patently racist and hateful towards anyone that looks arab or appears to be muslim after 9/11?
People were completely OK with killing arabs, no matter who it was, all for revenge. Questioning the motives of the Iraq war was seen as betrayal, and now look what happened after all of that smoke cleared: almost everyone realized what a mistake they made.
The media and advertising have literally told people what they want and how they should feel. And people listen because what else does an American strive for except having their own place with a TV. It's so easy to take things from us because we let them. I could write an essay on this, but I think you get the point.
I think the above posts underscore the need for a reexamination of our values; and, more fundamentally, what we stand for as Americans. Do we stand for freedom and equality? Freedom and equality are ideals; but, absent a perfect world, no one can live in society and be entirely free or completely equal. For every freedom there is a corresponding obligation to others, and equality is limited to the extent that such obligations are mutual, and others do not demand rights without responsibility for their exercise. In this, the promise of America is not freedom and equality, but rather liberty and equal opportunity and justice under law. However, such promise cannot be kept when government instituted by men favors the few in derogation of the many, or serves the special interests at the expense of the public interest, and when the rich and powerful can have more justice than the poor and oppressed.
America is a nation of laws and not men. But the law can be both used and abused by men; and so it is the duty and responsibility of every citizen to oversee those that make and enforce the laws and administer justice, lest our democratic institutions be turned into a tyranny over us.
All of those ideas are just changing the direction of the big government machine and not shrinking it. If the federal government were smaller and had less influence on business there would be no need for your three ideas.
No my friend, you have it backwards. The stranglehold that corporations have on the government is the problem.
creator is whoever you believe created you in a spiritual sense.
to me, it sure as hell isnt allah or mohammed.
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Why are modern Americans afraid of liberty?
