something to ponder on this 'historic' day

The insidiousness of the federal government's unprecedented drive in our day to regulate and control more and more of life's daily activities belies its stated purpose. This continued unmitigated concentration of power at the federal level
is the antithesis of what this country was founded upon and what made it a great nation. The striving for freedom and liberty that every soul longs for and is the foundation of our constitutional form of government is slowly being usurped
for what is being sold to us as the 'greater good'. But is it really? World history has proven that the concentration of power never results in more freedom and liberty but less. With statistics reflecting a steady increase in dependence upon the public dole within our country the ebb and flow of reliance bodes well for the continued concentration of power at the federal level.
Americans' antipathy towards forsaking their freedoms and liberties have long held the government's power grabs in check but recent history has proven the proverbial 'frog in boiling water' analogy - slowly, consistently and no one will notice until we are all cooked! I believe we have reached the boiling point and people are beginning to feel the heat.
Shall we become a feudal state with the federal government as our lord and master? The recent show by a handful of our federal elected officials (they are public servants no more) arrogant and flagrant push for unilateral power should shock all freedom loving Americans. The continued disdain for individual freedom and liberty shown by these 'servants of the people' and their plan to push more people into the bondage, that is reliance on the federal government, underscores their unrestrained appetite for the greater consolidation of power. And here is what we shall reap as our reward for following this path:
- Individual freedom restrained - replaced by control of an oppressive benefactor
- Self reliance rebuked - total dependence upon the system becomes the objective
- Liberty destroyed - indentured servitude of the many resulting from autocracy’s victory
- Hope for the future will be transformed into a hopeless longing for what we have given up

prb

Here are some quotes from history to consider:
Woodrow T. Wilson -
“Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it... The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.”

Marcus Tullius Cicero -
“When a government becomes powerful it is destructive, extravagant and violent; it is an usurer which takes bread from innocent mouths and deprives honorable men of their substance, for votes with which to perpetuate itself”

William Moulton Marston -
“Every crisis offers you extra desired power”

James Madison -
“The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny”