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We are being asked to accept the accelerating
expansion of the Federal Government on the theory that they are smarter
than we are; that the people, in control of their state and local governments, need an
expert from Washington to tell us how to educate our children, build our homes, and spend
our money. The genius of our founding documents came from the common sense of the men
who wrote them. It doesn’t work the other way around. You seldom get common sense from a
genius. And you never get common sense from government; it is fundamentally incompatible
with bureaucracy.
The Constitution is designed to allow the people to control their government at the state and
local level, and to limit the role of the Federal Government to that of overseeing interaction
between states and protecting the states. Our leaders today have forgotten that we fought the
Revolutionary War against too much government. Most of them apparently do not understand
the connection between a free people and a prosperous society, that each is necessary for the
other to exist.
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I regularly deal with hundreds of small businessmen across the country and there is almost unanimous
agreement that this is the hardest economy we have ever faced. We also
agree that it is a direct result of the decisions being made in Washington.
Like most small Business's Deans Top and Canvas can not survive this onslaught
of greed and stupidity indefinitely, so this book is part of my fight to survive
as a small business. We are on the precipice of the greatest economic collapse in
human history. There are a few specific things that must change, and change soon
or we will no longer be worrying about losing our jobs and businesses because we
will lose our country.
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.
We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream.
It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same,
or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children
and our children's children what it was once like in the United
States where men were free.
Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.
The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased.
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