And feed themselves to the wolves.  A history lesson:

It is only in modern times starting with the fallout of the French Revolution and Bismarck in Germany that we start to see the idea that the State coming to control society is a ‘good’ thing.  This was spurred on by Socialism as avowed in the 19th and early 20th century and taken up by the Progressives in America.  Many would seek to start changing that accountability of government and the citizenry and to make government less accountable and the citizenry more restricted ‘for its own good’.  That is a strange thing to put forth in a land where it is the citizenry that is to have the greatest free play of liberty and rights and government is to be held small and accountable lest its ability as punisher be used wantonly.  While busting monopolies and having child labor laws is a good thing, to free up capital and to ensure good opportunities in life for children, restricting medicines and shifting from minor regulations on our economic lives and moving into trying to manage and control the lives of citizens via those means is the slide from ‘good and reasonable’ to ‘punishing due to moral outlook’.  Even worse it diminishes the citizenry by those holding such beliefs and attempts to enforce beliefs without reasonable basis upon the citizenry.

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Over half if not two-thirds of all government regulations have been put in place since 1972, and for that we get to pay high taxes for things that industry and commercial groups were already doing to themselves.  Engineering, accounting and other standards bodies required no government oversight, yet got them.  Today it is impossible to live without breaking some standard, some law or some minor bureaucratic rule, and the citizenry has gotten not to care about that.  In changing from the Rule of Law to the Law of Rules, we get a society where lawyers were few and far between in the 19th century to being a positive growth service that has much time, energy and money sunk into it with little return.

The whole thing is a long post, as are pretty much all the posts over at the Jacksonian Party.  But it is a must read, like Bill Whittle’s long posts. 

Over these last few days and the days to come we face the turning point of government as regulator to government as controller.  President Andrew Jackson stopped the National Bank when it came up for re-approval, so that our security would be in our own hands as citizens in the economic realm.  Today the Elites have made sure that no government institution ever comes up for re-approval.  That is their one-way street.

I oppose the banking bailout. 

Not because of the pros and cons of what will happen to Wall Street.  I’ve lost tens of thousands of dollars recently in my personal investment accounts.

I oppose the bailout because any time the government does anything at all, everyone’s personal liberty diminishes.  That some folks believe that someone else must do something horrifies me.  This whole crisis needs to run its course.  Having the government take ownership of citizen’s debt?

Think about this and how bad an idea this would be.  You will owe money to the government.  Not as taxes, but the government will own your home loan.  Your credit cards and such.  With all the ruthless efficiency of the DMV cross bred with the IRS.

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