Never-ending Wars, a Worldview, and a Christian Enigma - Pt. 2

We Americans need to ask ourselves: What is the proper role of the federal government?

The monolithic expanse of the federal government—with it’s noxious costs—has evolved into a liberty-limiting and economy-killing machine that has wrought great harm to millions of people and their property -- both domestically and abroad. Sadly, these many wrongs have occurred under the aegis of an ambivalent mind-set held by a significant portion of America’s population at large.

America suffers from the delusion that government solves problems. From the presidential appointment of “czars,” to the bloated but pathetically ineffective bureaucracies they have created, a series of one failure after another is testimony to the federal government’s maladministration of: the war on poverty, the war on drugs, the wars in Korea and Vietnam, and the never-ending war on terror.

Considering that none of the above cited “wars” have produced positive results; that, as a consequence of these ineffectual wars, we now have a national debt exceeding $15 Trillion; that the housing market is still a shambles; that joblessness is a national pandemic (but to cite a few noteworthy anomalies), might I be so bold as to suggest that the time has come to re-examine exactly what the role of the federal government should be.

We Americans are unique, as well as being the most fortunate heirs of an even more remarkable legacy. In the history of the world, there has never been a country that was formed by it’s people -- from the ground up.

No royalty, no aristocracy, no ruling class; just a collection of intellectually astute rebels who fervently believed that every human being’s birthright is equality; and that both their present and future lives should be based upon a firm set of principles designed to inspire an existence featuring peace, prosperity and individual liberty as the desired state of their humanity.

Great and noble ideas; but over the last century, an absolute failure in securing their permanence to the benefit of the people.

So who’s at fault? The simple answer: It is us ... we, the people. Whether through deception or by voluntary default, we suborned the immense growth and centralized power of the federal government. In so doing, we also gave up on the fundamental human right to be free to choose the manner in which we seek our happiness.