Frogs in a Progressive Pot
We have more laws than we had 100 years ago, but we're less safe, less happy, and less free
Democrat and Republican Progressive rodents have nibbled away at our freedoms for over 100 years now. John Stossel writes:
It hit me a few months ago when the Supreme Court struck down Chicago's unconstitutional gun ban. Dictator Daily declared he would just rewrite the law. I wrote a blog post featuring Ted Nugent declaring “Don’t. Tread. On. Me. Period!”
What Gives Them the Right?
What gives an elected official the right to tell a free man he can’t own a gun to protect himself and his family? Seriously. We should be asking our elected officials that at every turn.
But no, we are all suspect, with hundreds of thousands of incomprehensible laws hanging over our heads, and it’s all for the betterment of society. Progress! That is their talking point. “We don’t let you run with scissors, Little Kurt, because you may hurt yourself of someone else.”
“Someone might get hurt. We have policemen to handle the bad guys.”
Yeah right. You can’t sue the police department when your house is robbed or, God forbid, a loved one is murdered. So the state denies us a fundamental right but fails to step in and fill the void. That is just one of the myriad logical inconsistencies of progressivism.
Progressivism Kills
People in liberal victim societies like New York and Chicago are lambs to the slaughter because their governments have disarmed them while failing to do the same to the predators.
Too many have no retirement savings because the Social Security siren song has dashed them upon the rocks of fiscal insolvency, while government-sponsored inflation ate away their savings.
Education performance decreases as federal government intervention increases.
“Stimulus” money bailed out irresponsible state governments, keeping the economy-killing bureaucratic waste alive. This allows out-of-control state and local governments to dodge the hard decisions needed to restore fiscal sanity.
This is progress?
Democrat and Republican Progressive rodents have nibbled away at our freedoms for over 100 years now. John Stossel writes:
It's become easier to get into trouble. We've become a nation of a million rules. Not the kind of bottom-up rules that people generate through voluntary associations. Those are fine. I mean imposed, top-down rules formed in the brains of meddling bureaucrats who think they know better than we how to manage our lives.Its always in the name of safety, security, equality, etc. Meanwhile, Congress exempts itself from the laws it piles on us mere mortals while democratic voters cheer the trampling of our constitution.
It hit me a few months ago when the Supreme Court struck down Chicago's unconstitutional gun ban. Dictator Daily declared he would just rewrite the law. I wrote a blog post featuring Ted Nugent declaring “Don’t. Tread. On. Me. Period!”
What Gives Them the Right?
What gives an elected official the right to tell a free man he can’t own a gun to protect himself and his family? Seriously. We should be asking our elected officials that at every turn.
But no, we are all suspect, with hundreds of thousands of incomprehensible laws hanging over our heads, and it’s all for the betterment of society. Progress! That is their talking point. “We don’t let you run with scissors, Little Kurt, because you may hurt yourself of someone else.”
“Someone might get hurt. We have policemen to handle the bad guys.”
Yeah right. You can’t sue the police department when your house is robbed or, God forbid, a loved one is murdered. So the state denies us a fundamental right but fails to step in and fill the void. That is just one of the myriad logical inconsistencies of progressivism.
Progressivism Kills
People in liberal victim societies like New York and Chicago are lambs to the slaughter because their governments have disarmed them while failing to do the same to the predators.
Too many have no retirement savings because the Social Security siren song has dashed them upon the rocks of fiscal insolvency, while government-sponsored inflation ate away their savings.
Education performance decreases as federal government intervention increases.
“Stimulus” money bailed out irresponsible state governments, keeping the economy-killing bureaucratic waste alive. This allows out-of-control state and local governments to dodge the hard decisions needed to restore fiscal sanity.
This is progress?
>Its always in the name of safety, security, equality, etc.<
ReplyDeleteYes it is. And we can now add the environent.
>What gives an elected official the right to tell a free man he can’t own a gun to protect himself and his family?<
The fact THEY beleive THEY have the right because they obviously know best?
As the tic toc of ever increasing statism grips our proud and (semi) free land.