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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve
I also realize that a certain amount of government is actually necessary. The argument comes from the question "how much?"
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The amount of government necessary is that which is required to ensure the "unalienable" rights of the governed; no more than that is required.
Unfortunately, over the years, we have been content to let our elected politicians decide what that means, rather than doing so ourselves; now, they tell us what rights we can have, rather than us telling them how we want our rights preserved. It's flipped; the lobbyists tell the politician what and how to vote, the politician does so, and we live with the consequences.
Until we vote all the bums out and take a stand against unions and every other special interest lobby controlling our communities, nothing's going to change significantly; one side will vote in a measure that will hold until the other side's in power to overturn it. Never in history has a government expended so many resources and so much time and effort to stand still.