"What Has Government Done For
You?"
from "In Defense of
Rural America"
By Ron Ewart,
President
National Association of Rural Landowners (www.narlo.org)
Life is indeed complicated and stressful! There
is so much to do and so little time to do it. What with jobs, commutes, kids,
homes, vacations, entertainment and sports, it's so hard to pay much attention
to what our government is doing. But just because we look the other way does
not diminish the affect of government’s actions on our daily lives, much less
our bank accounts.
Many of government's actions are hard to see.
Federal, state and local governments pass law after law and somehow we think we
are immune from the consequences of those laws. Government is like a mosquito.
You don't feel the actual penetration of your skin, only the itch after the
mosquito has withdrawn its blood-sucking straw and buzzed away. Come to think
of it, government is very much like a mosquito with its blood-sucking taxes and
zillions of rules, regulations, restrictions and ordinances that control every
aspect of our lives. (the rules are the "itch" after the
government has employed its weapon of choice by raiding your wallet …..
taxes.)
So what has government really done for you?
Where do we start? Why not start with illegal immigration?
Your federal government (that's the 545 people
who control almost everything in America - a president, 435 representatives, 100
Senators and 9 Supreme Court Justices) has seen fit to encourage
(indeed provide a magnet) illegal immigration by not enforcing existing
law and sealing our borders, as they are mandated to do. We are absolutely
convinced they have done so on purpose. And for their skullduggery we get to
pay for it all. The price tag for schools, language tutors, medical treatment,
anchor babies, social services and lost jobs to legal Americans by illegal
aliens, has been estimated at nearly $300 to $500 Billion per year. We had no
say in this policy, as our representatives and senators know what is best for
us. Well, don't they? Besides the cost, comes the premeditated, unconscionable
erosion of our American sovereignty. And speaking of American sovereignty,
let's not forget NAFTA, CAFTA, the Transpacific Partnership (TPP) and the
Security and Prosperity Partnership (North American Union).
Now let's look at what the collusion of the
radical, international environmentalists and the U. S. government together, have
done for us.
1) The purposeful and unconstitutional theft of our
property rights with environmental law after environmental law.
2) Severely restricts development of new crude oil
resources on American soil for 30 years.
3) Stopped all construction of new power generation and
refineries on American soil for 30 years.
4) Trying to take control of every mud puddle in America.
(Clean Water Restoration Act) – EPA rules).
5) Instituting an ill-conceived and dastardly policy to turn
"food" into fuel.
6) Brainwashing the entire American population
(including our children in public schools and colleges)
into believing that we are the cause of the destruction of our planet and must
give up our cars and our lifestyle and pay for CO2 emissions. (wealth
redistribution)
7) Along with all this brainwashing comes the propaganda and
lies of man-caused global warming.
8) The mandated institution of a National Animal Index
System (NAIS) to register every animal and every premise in America,
that might be harboring livestock or other animals. It’s been shelved for now
but it will be back.
9) But worst of all comes the treasonous degradation
of the foundation of our laws, our constitution, by integrating UN and European
social and environmental policies into law by presidential executive order and
without the debate and ratification of such additions to our laws by the U. S.
Congress, as required by the constitution. And what is the result of the
government's collusion with the radical, international environmentalists?
Rapidly accelerating costs of everything and the direct and inexcusable loss of
our freedom and liberty.
Then we have the government's monetary policy
under the Federal Reserve. But then the Federal Reserve isn't a government
entity, is it? It is run by a bunch of elite bankers who tweak the supply of
money (money that essentially has no intrinsic value) by moving the
interest rate they charge other banks, up or down, in response to perceived
events that they, in their infinite wisdom have determined that such changes are
required. Unfortunately, they are usually wrong or go too far and set off a
chain of events that they then try to over-correct and end up acting like
a teenager just learning to drive. The Feds have the power to send us into a
recession, or rapid inflation, or stagflation and they do. Who pays the price
for their tomfoolery and their inability to properly make adjustments to a
dynamic system? We do!
And of course, let's not forget the government's
social policies. From the New Deal in the 1930's to President Johnson's Great
Society, the blood-sucking government has eaten up trillions of our tax dollars
to solve a problem (or is it buy votes with our money) that shows no
signs of getting any better. In so doing, they have robbed the pride,
self-reliance, independence and a can-do spirit out of millions of Americans who
have sold their souls and their freedom for a piece of the American hard-working
producer's sweat equity. Instead of growing in independence, they have grown
totally dependent. These folks that drink at the "well" of the government's
largess, become unproductive and an increasing load on the rest of
us.
Finally, the good 'Ole Federal government passes
law after law that then filters down to state and local governments. This then
creates law-driven symptoms that have us all running around like chickens with
their heads cut off, trying to stop the state and local governments from making
our lives even more miserable than the Feds have already done. In our actions
to thwart these government-manufactured "symptoms", we take our collective
"eyes" off of the ball that is the direct cause of all these local symptoms; the
545 people that control everything in America. Socialists and radical
environmentalists camp at government's door, vying for any favor they can get
from government, in return for money, votes, or perks offered by the
lobbyists. Our system of government has become so corrupt that only a
revolution can ever bring sanity to what is now hopelessly insane and out of
control.
There is so much more that government has done
for (or is it TO) us but there isn't enough space here to describe them
all. So what HAS government done for you?
They have taken our pride, our hard-earned money and our liberty, for policies
that far exceed the limits of commons sense, much less the individual,
inalienable rights, that are the irrevocable gift of our creator.
But then, what with jobs, commutes, kids, homes, vacations,
entertainment and sports, it's so hard to pay much attention to what our
government is doing.
Wasn't it President Ronald Reagan who said. "The
most terrifying words in the English language are: "I'm from the
government and I'm here to help." He also said:
"Government is not the solution. Government is the
problem."
If only government would just get out of the way
and let the spirit of a free American people prosper and save themselves and the
rest of the world, like some have said we were pre-ordained to do. The sad
truth is that, government will not get out of the way unless the people force
them.
You don't have to worry about
whether America will become a socialist country. It already
has.
We describe some of these conditions in our new video:
Click on the link to view the
video.
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Ron Ewart, a nationally known author and
speaker on freedom and property rights issues and author of this weekly column,
"In Defense of Rural America", is the president of the National
Association of Rural Landowners (NARLO) (http://www.narlo.org) an advocate and consultant for urban
and rural landowners and a non-profit corporation headquartered in
Washington State. He can be reached for comment at: info@narlo.org.
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