While my intention here is not to be an “alarmist”, I do hope that people will heed some of the advice or information that I am going to discuss. Right now, individual freedom is on the fast track towards disappearing here in the United States. It starts with slowly taking away little freedoms, such as the light bulbs you can use, or the kind of plants you can grow, and it increases to what kind of car you can drive.
They tell you who can and can’t be on the radio or tv. They tell you what you can read, or can’t read. They tax you for the choices you make like drinking, or smoking. They tell a private business that they can’t allow a legal activity on their own premises (like smoking). Then the city or local government wants to a private company to build a mini-mall or private condo unit in town, and the city uses eminent domain to take your house, or rather they designate it as “blighted”.
They take away a private citizens right to bear arms, this way they become defenseless against the state to protect their own (formerly) private property. They use fear tactics (”Our economy may never recover unless…”-Pres. Obama), or the environmental lobby using fear tactics regarding global warming.
They teach our children collectivism, while teaching that everyone should get a ribbon because everyone is just as good, when really they are setting up our future for failure. There is competition in life, get used to it. They want Card Check laws, so that when employees vote to join a Union, it is an open vote, rather than the sacred right to an secret ballot, this way thuggery can occur, and people can be forced into supporting something that they may not have wanted to support.
We will all be forced to pay more taxes, to support more government programs, that really only enslave us as citizens more. The masses shout “give me, give me, give me”; yet they need to head this advice:
“A government big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough to take everything you have”-Gerald R. Ford
Beware America, unless we keep a close eye on just the small things, like lightbulb regulation, we will some day in the not too distant future lose the rights for the big things, like private property; or possibly even your right to exist.
“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