Posted by
ICONIC FREEDOM on Friday, January 15, 2010 8:34:43 AM
What is limited government?
Does government being limited mean that only your personal agenda is supported and enforced?
Or does it mean that government is limited to managing the safety of our nation, upholding contracts between parties, enforcing the unbridled dissemination of information to Americans in order to advance and encourage personal responsibility and little else?
If Republicans REALLY uphold limited government, then that limit has to extend even to the strongest of "social issues" that affect them.
Here's why: limited government means government out of all these issues so that free markets, creative and innovative solutions can spring forth where communities can address a list of priorities rather than government becoming the nanny for your specific concern.
Using government to advance your personal agenda is not limiting government, but expanding it. Get government out of it all and we will all put our collective heads together and come up with some great ideas that government will NEVER come up with.
If Republicans want to stand for limited government, personal responsibility and safety of the nation they'll find a whole lot more people voting (R).
It doesn't mean anyone is telling you to give up your principles in life, to the contrary.
It means getting government out of favoring your principles over another American's principles. It means government staying neutral in all issues of a subjective nature. And isn't that what this pluralistic nation is really all about - acknowledge the freedom of all while favoring none?
If the focus is on the idea that you live your life at no cost to another without his consent, then laws will be enacted which will give consequence to the man who makes the choice in antithesis.
Life is subjective – in the eye of the beholder. How could we possibly think government could favor and enforce every American’s version of how life should be lived?
It can’t and freedom compels that it doesn’t. Government need only uphold our Constitution and Americans will figure out the rest.
In all of life we do one of two things: we move toward something or we move away from it.
Every time you want or demand that a personal social issue of concern be managed or forced by government, you’ve moved away from freedom and into the hands of control.
If Republicans, along the spectrum, really uphold free markets, then they should have confidence that they can manage their principles and social issues of concern without government interference; that they will create innovative solutions toward their goals.
If Republicans stand by the integrity and character of limited government, personal responsibility (which includes, of course, fiscal, as well) and safety of this nation – they will find an overwhelming number of Americans over time joining the cause for freedom.