Quote of the Day: Governmental Inversion
We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.--Ayn Rand
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- Increased tax rates without true representation
- Forced collection of income for the purposes of social welfare
- Health care decisions made by the government
- Regulations limiting energy production
- Prohibition of what is deemed 'immoral'
- Wiretapping on US citizens
- Continuing erosion of gun control rights
- Forced collection of income for the purposes of retirement without control of the funds
Today we are involved in a struggle of a government and politicians that no longer believe in success of the individual without government intervention. The entire idea seems to be repulsive to them. If you take a look at their policies this is the only conclusion that you can draw. Instead of developing policies that favor individual choice and reduce regulation to allow success outside of governmental control these people institute policies that restrict individual liberties, choice, and pit one group against another. They do not spread the word that success is the result of hard work and dedication but instead by luck or some sort of fortune, hence the terms fortunate and less fortunate, terms that I abhor.
Today's politicians have rebelled against our libertarian founding in an effort to gain greater power and greater job security. It seems that Ayn Rand is correct in the idea that a governmental inversion is underway because as she correctly asserts, "the stage of rule by brute force" is being relied on in greater quantity. For instance, the IRS has the right to forcefully view any private income or bank statements with little action for recourse. Government has taken by force the right to save for your own financial security by forcing collection of income into Social Security, which can then be distributed to others without your permission or method for retribution.
This will not end until the electorate wakes up and closely examines the true desire of "men [and women] of zeal, well meaning but without understanding" like Ted Kennedy, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, Ralph Nader, John McCain, judicial activists in the mold of Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer and the list can go on as Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis, 1928 stated.
We are on a process of governmental inversion with encroachment on the Liberty and Freedoms of individuals that were put forth clearly in the Constitution and the words of our founding fathers. It is time for the encroachment to halt before the darkest age of man returns again and it is libertarian values that can only take us there.
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We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.--Ayn Rand
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