Thursday’s vote in the United States House of Representatives to repeal the Unaffordable Health Care Act shows just how divided the country is when it comes to what is the proper role of government.
It is clear to me that if you believe in government as the solution to your problems, you are willing to give up most of your freedom and liberty for the promise of free or nearly free cradle-to-grave care by that same government.
You do not believe you are personally responsible for taking care of yourself.
None of the decisions you have made have anything to do with your lot in life. So, what if you did drugs or imbibe too much alcohol. It is not your fault you did not study in school and went partying all night instead. You still deserve a job that pays $100,000 a year despite all of your bad choices.
It is somebody else’s fault that you do not live in as nice a house, drive as nice vehicle or have as many nice clothes as your neighbor. You like to wallow in a pool of self-pity and prefer the culture of “victimology” and eagerly vote for the anybody who promotes the “grievance industry”.
The opposite of the above are people who believe they are primarily responsible for what happens to them, based on the choices they make.
Yes, there will always be those who cannot take care of themselves due to accidents, disease or genetic issues – those people we should gladly and lovingly take care of – using private charities to whom we should eagerly give as generously as we can afford.
I am my brother’s keeper, not the government.
Some of us believe that free markets and informed consumers offer the best outcome for the most people of any economic system ever invented.
You only need to look at Venezuela and North Korea to see what happens when government replaces free markets.
We in the United States have some big decisions to make in the coming years.
Do we go down the same road as Venezuela and North Korea by passing more laws that allow government to interfere with our private lives by telling us what kind of car we can drive (CAFÉ standards), how much sugar we can consume (see New York City), whether that puddle of water on your lawn is a “wetland” (so you cannot erect a kids swing set) or how much water your toilet can use (making you flush multiple times in instead of once)?
I have more examples, but the ones I cite above are enough to make my point: the smallest possible government that abides by the Constitution as it was originally intended results in the best outcome for the most people.
Do not be so eager to give up some or all of your liberty and freedom for the false promise that somebody from the government will take care of you.
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Republicans big government or small?
From what we have witnessed in the Lynchburg locality over the past decade is a Gestapo Government.
To have citizens abide by the law than have no enforcement for chosen others.
Bedford County just approved over $70,000.00 for a Gang Officer, oooooh.
Yet 4 years ago the lead Building Inspector , previous Board of Contractors Member Gary MGyver had changed the permit app. To make the General Contractor list the license of his framer, why?
Duh because of all the unlicensed illegal alien contractors in this area.
Now in the same locality 4 years later ONLY after a killing, not the first death.
Bedford County is reacting.
This is the District of Senator Newman, big government and employment santurary.
Executive Order 24 is a action of leadership , nothing nobel.
Just an elected offical doing his job.
To bad it is taking an Democrats EO to assist in cleaning up the Conservative,Santurary , Gestapo run districts.
Bona – fide independent contractor
ultra conservative or ultra BS.
So you say Stewart had an dumb campaign move, ok.
Dumb leadership moves all in this district.
It appears that Va. Republicans are used to dumb.
A building inspector was aware and did something long before Law enforcement or our sitting Senator Steve Newman.
BUILD THE WALL
BUILD IT TALL
EMPLOY CITIZENS THAT ALL
or do you represent something or someone ( UN american) else.
SOLD! ,SOLD!,SOLD!
“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect
Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the
common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of
Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this
Constitution for the United States of America.”
Thank you for the article.
“….using private charities to whom we should eagerly give as generously as we can afford.”
What those on the Left, who are dedicated to ‘charity at gun point’, scrupulously avoid mentioning, is that the nature of real charity demands that you earn the money first. You don’t grab other people’s hard earned money to fund your so-called ‘charity’.
But the Left wing has absolutely no interest in being truly charitable. They mumble lies about charity while they unrelentingly pursue their goal of establishing a socialist police state in America. In order to take away people’s freedom, you have to have a well crafted lie. The Left excels at that.
Well done!
Limited Goverment is good but this does not mean deregulate everything and go play golf.
What DPOR Regulations does Gillespie want to not enforce and how many jobs is he guessing he will net on a dribble down effect.
Will he stick the last blade in the Virginia working man in favor non tax paying illegal bussinesses.
So in a Republican nutshell limited goverment means you don’t have to do your job , kinda like Ken Cuccinelli and Bob McDonnell.
You notice I never attack them on Jonny Williams just on their weak a$$
job performance in their unapproved guest worker program.
http://watchdog.org/202012/subcontractors-shadow-economy.
Send a letter to DHS , what a bad political joke, considering we know the punch line.
Hey, did someone write a check to the VEC auditor in Lynchburg who looked the other way on checks issued to illegal aliens/unlicensed contractors.
Brought to you by complicit Republicans who believe in administrative deregulating (less goverment) Va.Contractor and employment law in favor of illegal alien employment santurary employment.
What can a smart Republican add to that awsome EO 24 by Governor McAuliffe?
please write an article about how our progressive school system is fundamentally transforming our kids into Bernie Sanders supporters!
If you aren’t a liberal when you are young you have no heart. If you aren’t conservative after you age you have no head.
The problem with that is all the heartless college student liberals running around. I’ve seen plenty of cruelty on the part of “compassionate” millennials, too much for it to be a coincidence that they just happen to be liberal.
Exactly spot on!! Limited government is the BEST.
Nice!