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GOVERNMENT: It's forgotten its role to the people

| August 20, 2010 6:46 AM

What is the government's role in our lives? This is an ongoing debate that appears to be fueling the oncoming November elections.

Is the government's role to provide for me and my family? I say no; that is the job of local communities, our neighbors. The government's role is to be as less intrusive in our personal lives as possible.

However, our country has already turned the corner and I believe we have entered a new era of big government in these United States that is unprecedented in our history. No longer will our personal choices be our own but funneled and limited by what the executive branch has ordained. The U.S. Congress is becoming more and more irrelevant, bogged down with corruption and inability to carry out the will of the people; the executive branch will take the helm, consolidating power, administering its politically correct willpower under the doctrine of moral equivalency. We are in trouble my friends, God help us all.

"Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of ‘emergency.' It was the tactic of Lenin, Hitler and Mussolini. In the collectivist sweep over a dozen minor countries of Europe, it was the cry of men striving to get on horseback. And ‘emergency' became the justification of the subsequent steps. This technique of creating emergency is the greatest achievement that demagoguery attains." - Herbert Hoover

JOSHUA HARRISON

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