Liberty Maven

During his own campaign for President, Ron Paul said several times “when you subsidize something, you get more of it”. This is true even for the recent penchant for our federal government to bail out failing financial institutions. The entire U.S. financial system is based on debt. No matter how much the feds choose to remove from our pockets there will never be enough to change the inevitable. Our elected officials are acting as bad parents spoiling the misbehaving children of the financial markets.

The feds are sending all the wrong signals. Is there any reason not to max out every one of my credit cards and purchase as much gold as I can? If the government is getting in the business of forgiving debts then why not include everyone? Oh wait, that’s right, the government is only interested in bailing out those institutions that deserve to fail. A typical family of four with a bit of debt and an upside down mortgaged house is not worthy, at least not directly.

The truth is no institution, no family, and no individual should be worthy of a government bailout. The redistribution of wealth is not supposed to be in the fabric of America. It is getting to the point that one wonders if the next President will be sworn in on the Communist Manifesto rather than the Bible.

This is no longer my America. This is no longer the America of our founders. We are prisoners of our own apathy.

Our Mommy and Daddy government is over-protective. We are not prepared to ever fail and therefore learn our lessons. Keep feeding us your delicious bailouts, your wonderful welfare, your fabulous foreign policy, your terrific taxes, and your lovely lies until we’re fat and drunk on our own stupidity.

Then again, why not keep your bailouts, taxes, welfare, foreign policy, and lies to yourself? Let the Constitution be your parenting guide. Give us the freedom your own parents promised us. Don’t disappoint and embarrass them anymore. Stop protecting us from ourselves.

Let us know liberty. Let us fail. Let us learn. Let us pick ourselves up off the ground stronger and more prepared for the next challenge of our day.