This article by Terry Paulson makes some great points and essentially I agree with it. He makes some great points and highlights some great inefficiencies in our current government and national psyche.
However, I cringe at his use of the parental example to describe a good government. Myself & my family are not spoiled or immature children to be sternly guided by the wise hand of government. That's the mentality of the government that we have now & look where it's getting us! As the Prime Minister of the Czech Republic says, it's the "road to hell."
The government is not my parent, it is my peer. You might give your friends advice if you believe they're screwing up their lives. You might even offer to help and make tools available for them to help themselves. But you let them make their own decisions and lie in their own bed if they choose not to change their course and decisions.
There's a lot of "help" that I don't need from the government. When the government believes that it is my & my neighbor's parent it imposes it's "help" on us no matter what I think. Frankly, I'm tired of paying for the "help" that our "parent" gives to those of my neighbors who've chosen to make poor decisions.
Thank you very much, but I think I can take care of myself. And I think my neighbor should too.
theMK
However, I cringe at his use of the parental example to describe a good government. Myself & my family are not spoiled or immature children to be sternly guided by the wise hand of government. That's the mentality of the government that we have now & look where it's getting us! As the Prime Minister of the Czech Republic says, it's the "road to hell."
The government is not my parent, it is my peer. You might give your friends advice if you believe they're screwing up their lives. You might even offer to help and make tools available for them to help themselves. But you let them make their own decisions and lie in their own bed if they choose not to change their course and decisions.
There's a lot of "help" that I don't need from the government. When the government believes that it is my & my neighbor's parent it imposes it's "help" on us no matter what I think. Frankly, I'm tired of paying for the "help" that our "parent" gives to those of my neighbors who've chosen to make poor decisions.
Thank you very much, but I think I can take care of myself. And I think my neighbor should too.
theMK
