Jefferson warned, “I predict future
happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting
the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.”
Yet by 2008, our government has
perfected the art of wasting the labors of the people under the
pretense of taking care of them.
As American soldiers die to guarantee others around the world, the right
to individual self-determination, average Americans back home are
trading their individual right of self-determination for an alleged
greater good, the right to the earnings of others, in the name of
economic equality.
Americans are passing their individual
powers to define and pursue individual economic conditions to the state,
the federal bureaucracy, under the guise of a greater communal good,
whereby the state becomes the central arbiter of individual worth.