I have been under a rock with regard to the unending great American debate.  I am now a full fledged Libertarian who will continue to vote Republican until a better option becomes viable.  This debate began 235 years ago and has not paused or halted since.  Neither shall it until this nation ceases to extol the virtues of the original intent of her founding fathers.   We must study history necessary to convey the message to this generation and especially and always to our current elected officials.  Tyranny is very close, my friends.  Very close.  It has ever been thus.

Each time our elected officials meet and consider the cries of the people to make right what is wrong, these elected officials take more responsibility and opportunity from us, the individual citizen, to guard ourselves and make our own 

way.  This administration seeks this power to guard us from ourselves.  This is the socialist agenda.  This is why I've fought what seem to be common sense laws like the motorcycle rider's helmet law and the seatbelt law and now the transfat law.  It is not for the government to force you to be responsible with your life.  As the welfare program saps the will of its recipients to thrive and succeed, these laws sap our will to be responsible for ourselves. An entire sub-culture has sprung up to engage in physically risky and morally reprehensible behaviors as a form of youthful rebellion to these laws.  See the movie, "JackAss"  More to the point, this is why I've fought anti-gun laws.  Anti-gun laws do nothing more than make the work environment safer for criminals to perpetrate their evils on the rest of us.  The big daddy of them all is the Social Security program.  It has sapped our individual will to provide for our own retirement.  Sixty Five percent of Americans have less than $2,000 dollars in savings at retirement age and the Social Security system is proving to be unsustainable and has never been able to completely provide for retirement.  Government cannot keep its promises.  Government isn't really interested in your care.  Government cares only for its power.  In order to grow that power it must have your support, so it promises and promises, but it cannot deliver free and abundant health care, education, retirement, or any other form of security beyond protecting our national borders (with our virtuous volunteers) and possibly an unbiased juror to oversee our disputes if we require their values to be founded in the root of our traditions.

I urge you to send Washington a unified message to get out of the regulatory business.  It was never their job to regulate our liberties, rather their job is to maximize our liberties.  Regulating our behavior is our business.  The more we are required by the necessities of life to be responsible, the more value we will place on virtue and self will. The more government intervenes 'for our own good' the less value we, as a culture, will place on personal responsibility.  Our governors, for power's sake, encourage our dependence on them to prevent the consequences of our behavior from falling upon us.  I don't want or need the government inserting their bureaucratic will on my liberties in any effort to prevent me from doing myself harm.  The evidence proves that bureaucracies are far more harmful to individuals than individuals are to themselves.  Our state-run school system is a prime example.  Before the bureaucratic insertion of federalization of our school system, our students were taught far more, far more effectively, far earlier in the childhood development, far greater values, but the longer the state controls education, the weaker our culture's academic abilities become.

The most important legislation of our day is not getting the recognition and attention it deserves from the watchdog industry we call the main stream media.  That legislation is the Enumerated Powers Act.  It requires the legislature and legislators to find and cite that article in the Constitution which empowers them to make the law they are writing or advancing.  In point of fact, the Congress is ignoring the document that regulates their authority to make law.