Our Right to Life (Part 2)

In Part one of my post “Right to Life: Real or Imagined”, I discussed the growth of power and size of our government. I pointed out the power of our Central Banks to print fiat money. This is money that our government guarantees without anything to back it up but a promise to print more money out of thin air when needed. I wrote about our politicians Brain of Convenience (BOC) attitude that allows them to promise us anything (regardless of whether we can afford it or not) to get our votes. I also pointed out that as Robert Higgs stated, our government takes advantage by adding regulations and agencies during crisis that were designed to be temporary, but which they cling to and ratchet up the size of government even after the crisis is over.

We are now deeper in debt than we ever have been and we have two Presidential Candidates that fail to recognize the danger of the direction we have traveled. If we allow our 2-Party System politicians, and especially the leader of our country, to continue to think as they always have, we most certainly follow them to hell. It is clear to me, and I am sure that many of you will agree, that our economy and our world stature is going down the tubes. The likelihood that we will see a major recession and perhaps even a Great Depression grows exponentially each day that passes. Please allow me to qualify that with the following. Economics is the Science of Scarcity. That means that we must recognize that there are limits to everything, including money! Our politicians can’t seem to realize that the more they tax, the less we have to spend. Taking money from us, slows down growth of our economy and of the Research and Development that would otherwise be ongoing if not for the punishing regulations and taxation upon our businesses. If we really want to stimulate the economy we must first vote for those that understand the economy. The only thing our politicians understand (and I wonder sometimes if they even understand anything at all) is politics. Their first concern is how do they continue to get elected. So how do we find such people? The answer is quite easy. Look outside the 2-Party System and you will find the third largest party in the United States is the Libertarian Party. How do I know that they understand the economy. Because they are Laissez-Faire Capitalist. They are anti mixed-economy representatives. They do not believe in politics. They recognize that our government is a Republic–not a Democracy. They recognize that the Supreme Court Justices need to be strict Constitutionalist. Since the Constitution was designed to protect our Rights and our Property, they will not promote big government programs. They will cut big government programs and restore our Right to Life. The very act of trimming our spending, in every corner of government, will cut our taxes drastically, opening up the economy and freeing every citizen to spend their money the way that they want to–not the way that government wants to spend our money. Remember, if we continue to think as we always have, we most certainly will continue to get what we’ve always gotten. Is this what we really want?

In my next post, I will discuss the direction our world is heading and attempt to provide a scenario that could lead us away from war and towards eternal peace.