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Listening to the Republican presidential candidates Monday night gave me hopes of what I have been advocating for several years of my life and that is to cut the size of federal government. I know my friends on the left see things differently than I do and they outnumber me, that is why we have a federal government that has grown into the monstrosity it is today. They send people to Washington who have promised to give them more. Oklahoma is not to blame, our representatives haven’t been guilty of advocating more government, more restrictions, more taxes, more bureaucracies and more control over our lives. They haven’t done that but neither have they offered to downsize the government either.
These new presidential candidates, all of them have promised to reduce the size of government. I like that. I think our group of legislators will help them if they get the opportunity. Most of us have heard the average age of the world’s greatest civilizations has been 200 years. I’m not sure who said, “A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government.”
I realize the United States has a Democratic Republic, a Representative Democracy which is bounded by a Constitution (however our government seems not to be mindful of it). Nevertheless, even with all the checks and balances in place we still seem to be going the way of a pure democracy, i.e. “It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship.”
These are not my words but they sure sound plausible to me. Has the United States experienced “loose fiscal policy”? Has it not added $4 trillion to the national debt in the last 2.8 years and now asking for another $1.2 trillion? Here is a copy of the cycle of failure from the beginning to the end: From bondage to spiritual faith; From spiritual faith to great courage; From courage to liberty; From liberty to abundance; From abundance to selfishness; From selfishness to complacency; From complacency to apathy; From apathy to dependence; From dependence back into bondage. Does this cycle seem to fit our country?
Howard W. Hall
Shawnee
Listening to the Republican presidential candidates Monday night gave me hopes of what I have been advocating for several years of my life and that is to cut the size of federal government. I know my friends on the left see things differently than I do and they outnumber me, that is why we have a federal government that has grown into the monstrosity it is today. They send people to Washington who have promised to give them more. Oklahoma is not to blame, our representatives haven’t been guilty of advocating more government, more restrictions, more taxes, more bureaucracies and more control over our lives. They haven’t done that but neither have they offered to downsize the government either.
These new presidential candidates, all of them have promised to reduce the size of government. I like that. I think our group of legislators will help them if they get the opportunity. Most of us have heard the average age of the world’s greatest civilizations has been 200 years. I’m not sure who said, “A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government.”
I realize the United States has a Democratic Republic, a Representative Democracy which is bounded by a Constitution (however our government seems not to be mindful of it). Nevertheless, even with all the checks and balances in place we still seem to be going the way of a pure democracy, i.e. “It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship.”
These are not my words but they sure sound plausible to me. Has the United States experienced “loose fiscal policy”? Has it not added $4 trillion to the national debt in the last 2.8 years and now asking for another $1.2 trillion? Here is a copy of the cycle of failure from the beginning to the end: From bondage to spiritual faith; From spiritual faith to great courage; From courage to liberty; From liberty to abundance; From abundance to selfishness; From selfishness to complacency; From complacency to apathy; From apathy to dependence; From dependence back into bondage. Does this cycle seem to fit our country?
Howard W. Hall
Shawnee
