2 January 2010

Where's the Limit?

"The greatest [calamity] which could befall [us would be] submission to a government of unlimited powers." - Thomas Jefferson, in "Declaration and Protest of Virginia", 1825

The promise by our country's founders of limited government as affirmed by the Constitution is supposed to guarantee our unlimited Liberty and Prosperity. As we live and labor according to the Constitution, everyday we discover we are losing the promised prosperity and guaranteed Liberty due to the lie of Limited Government. The belief in this lie enables government and decapitates us.

The government and those who control it have duped us into thinking they are here to help and serve you. In reality, they are helping themselves to the fruits of your labor and are serving themselves. While you and your loved ones go hungry, they are sitting in their homes and around the dinner table feasting on the fruits of your labor, which they've stolen from you using the force (taxation) of our supposedly limited government. As you are losing your job, they are getting pay raises. As you have lost or are losing your home, they are the ones foreclosing on it and buying it. If the government can't steal (tax) enough from you, then it simply prints up money without limit that it needs in order to continue on in its fantasy of unlimited spending. How can a government be limited when a third party (you and I) is made responsible for its debts? The printing of money without producing something is called inflation. And inflation is just another form of theft (taxation). Since government knows some of us are wise to their inflation game, it disguises it by using the term "quantitative easing". Of course, "A rose is still a rose even if called by another name" - Shakespeare. The government and those who serve it are gorging themselves upon you. They are stealing from you. They are doing harm to us. In their eyes we are nothing more than a host to be sucked dry of all our wealth and Liberty in order to fulfill their unlimited appetite for money and power. Therefore, I must ask, if America has a Limited Government, then:

Where's the limit to the interference in our lives with its rules, regulations and acts?

Where's the limit to our dependency on a government which steals in limitless ways from our families, friends and neighbors?

Where's the limit to our serfdom when the government steals wages and confiscates our homes with income and property taxes?

Where's the limit to the stealing of our homes due to eminent domain?

Where's the limit to the licenses we must seek to build, to form businesses, to travel, to bank and even to marry?

Where's the limit to them telling us when we can retire?

Where's the limit to its violations of the rule of law, i.e. the Constitution of the United States?

Where's the limit to its violations of our LIBERTY, LIFE and PROPERTY?

Where's the limit to its spending?

Where's the limit to its wars?

Where's the limit to our endurance to all government tyranny?

It would be wise for us to remember our LIMITED government was supposed to protect the LIFE, LIBERTY and PROPERTY of the people. We who formed the government wrote a contract - the Constitution - to limit SOLELY the government. The Constitution specifically states (in Article 1, Section 8) the extremely limited Constitutionally authorized duties of our servile government. Under this experiment of limited government, LIBERTY, PEACE and PROSPERITY are being limited while tyranny, chaos and poverty know no bounds. Where are our limits to the limitless illegal actions of the US government?

"The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government - lest it come to dominate our lives and interests." - Patrick Henry

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Rebecca Iocca

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