Port Angeles Vision

Government . . . the panacea for all our problems.  Government . . . the answer to all our questions.  Government . . . our security.  Government . . . our protector.  Government . . . our hope.  Government . . . our savior.

Why do so many Americans (and the vast majority of politicians) believe that government is all these things, our beginning and our end?

Why?

Our wise founding fathers did not believe that.  They believed government was the greatest threat to individual liberty.  How have we swung 180 degrees with the opposite mentality?

This idea that government is our solution and our hope has permeated every area of American culture and life.  Most Americans have been duped into believing that government ownership or control (either directly or indirectly)  is the ultimate answer to:

1. our education woes
2. our mortgage market
3. our real estate market
4. our financial security
5. our economy
6. our corporate culture
7. our automobile industry
8. our banking system
9. our private industry
10. our retirement system
11. our health care system
12. and hundreds of other areas that effect and control our lifestyles, our incomes, our children’s futures, and so on.

And in the last few months we have seen the largest acquisition of private industry by the federal government in the history of this great nation.

If you could devise a plan to destroy this nation from the inside out, could anyone have come up with a better plan than the current administration?

The answer to the health of small businesses and to America’s health, in my humble opinion, is not to legislate answers giving government more power and more control over our businesses and our personal freedom, but to get out of our way, and let small businesses flourish.  To government and to government experts and to quasi-government officials and experts, I say, “Leave us alone.  We know better than you how to run our businesses and raise our children.”

What do you think?  Do we have any brave souls who wish to express their opinions openly and intelligently?