FREEDOM IS NEEDED AT HOME

How ironic: the more we spend in young lives and treasure chasing fascism all over the world, the more fascist we become at home. Are you free to hire and fire whom you choose? No. Are you free to sell your house or your goods to whomever you choose? No. Are you free to decide where you will lend money, or where your employees will work or make deliveries? No. Are you free to set their terms of employment? No. Has the federal government constitutional authority to intervene in, offer and/or fund such social programs as Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, education, welfare, food stamps, housing, loans, racial spoils, etc? No. Or to control abortion? No. Or to manipulate the economy, trade and society with tariffs, quotas, and subsidies? No. Or to hand out foreign aid, or to underwrite the security, economy and survival of Israel? No. Or to cancel Third World debt? No, it belongs to the taxpayers. Or to fight wars of revenge (i.e. most of them) and police the world? No. Or to build a new Iraq? No. Or to bribe states, communities, and institutions to do what Congress itself is not authorized to do? No. Can you pay your taxes with confidence they will be used for your benefit? No; they may well be used to build a redundant, make-work aircraft carrier or another gov't building in West Virginia, or for unauthorized social programs or forbidden Robin Hood transfers. Government interventions in society or the economy do some good for some people some of the time, always including the politicians who create them, but they are almost always negative-sum. Collectively, they are called socialism or welfarism or redistributionism or statism or Marxism or communism, but their real name is fascism. How does the government get away with it? To keep their jobs, our politicians ignore the Constitution out of fear of or to do favors for unions, the Farm lobby, the Israeli LOBBY, the AARP, large fundraisers and donors, and others with political or financial power. Unorganized voters are kept at bay with handouts and the opium of progressive taxation/redistribution, i.e. the forcible transfer of the wages and savings of those who earn them and own them and have the right to spend them, to strangers who do not. Our ancestors had more freedom under King George III! The only proper function of government is to protect the lives, liberty and property of all within its jurisdiction, and not to improve, reform, educate or equalize people or society! hm