People think that conservatives want to dismantle government. Not true. We’re proud of our military, parks, mints, highways, and for the most part, judicial system. We just understand that when the government attempts to fix social issues, the results are worse than the problem.
The government wanted no one to go hungry; now we have a nation of obese people. The feds wanted to upgrade education and now everyone gets a very expensive but often inflated degree. They loosened immigration and now we have millions of illegals living here like citizens. They wanted everyone to own a home and the resulting bad credits may capsize the system. They want the U.S. to pay for keeping the climate constant without addressing the much bigger problem of third-world overpopulation.
The liberal politicians and bureaucrats who run Washington mean well, they just won’t use judgment, try new approaches or ever scale back. Government rewards failure with more funding.
Free market forces may be uneven and messy, but at least they drive efficiency.
Norman Thomas, a six-time candidate for President from the Socialist Party of America said this in 1944: "The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism, but under the name of liberalism, they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program until one day America will be a socialist nation without ever knowing how it happened."
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