Big Government is the Problem

As a people, we have been lured into a mindset that government is here to take care of us.  The proper role of government is to protect our rights so that we can pursue the path of happiness which is down the road of independence and individual sovereignty.  Individual sovereignty traded for communal security is not a fair trade. Government control in the name of security affects the economy both internally and externally. Internally we see production naturally occurs when there is a hope that a given effort will produce a given reward.  When government meddles with and lessens the reward it lessens the production.  Consumption occurs because the earth’s natural resources are converted into things useful and beneficial to man and then made available to those with excess resources to trade value for them.  A free exchange of information, ideas and enterprise causes an economy to flourish.  Externally, government affects an economy because government does not produce–it only consumes. The more we allow government to consume, the less of the economy is available to benefit the individuals within that economy.  When government brokers all activity, it creates friction between government and the rest of the economy.  This friction slows all activity.  With fewer laws, there will be a broader agreement and less friction between a government and a people. Few laws respect the sovereignty of the individual.  It takes a pretty darn good new law to be better than no new law at all.  This is the success secret of limited, Constitutional-based government with few laws and a broad agreement.  The less the friction, the greater will be the flow of the economy. We fix the economy by lessening the consumption of government, then lessen the friction and restrictions upon production and activity to allow the fullest participation of those who desire to build the economy (which is most everyone once legal plunder is abolished).  This is the intent of the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution.  Opposing is government based on power brokering and sell off of influence.  We can make our great state the bastion for the principals that allow an economy to flourish and thus a flourishing economy will follow.