I recently attended an event hosted by the Cato Institute in Vero Beach, Florida. It was about liberty and the problems we face from D.C's desire to control our lives.
Do you agree with the problems recognized in this quote?
“Washington has become a perpetual motion machine.”
D.C. keeps getting bigger. A simple representation of how big the central government is getting is the amount of money D.C. spends. This goes up, regardless of who holds the power.
Both major parties evidently favor big government and big spending (they just quibble over where to spend the trillions of dollars they take and borrow each year). One person is unlikely to stop an expansion problem that has festered for a century.
“There has never been a country with personal liberty that did not also have economic liberty.”
Most D.C. politicians appear unaware of this. Most don't want liberty for the people. They want more centralized power. Debates of authoritarians fighting over who would take more away from one group to dole out to another group are scary.
“There are more protests in front of the Supreme Court than in front of Congress.”
Protesting the Supreme Court is a sign of far too much power in the judiciary. It is a sign of a weak, bickering, ineffective Congress. This shows the House is not doing their job of representing the people, and that the Senate is not doing their job representing the states.
We need constitutionality in D.C. We need a government that protects both our economic liberty and our personal liberty, as the Founders intended.
