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I have something to say and I need to say it....somewhere. 

Yesterday I was informed that someone made a comment about my not agreeing with big government.  The comment, as I was told it, went something like this, "If the government doesn't regulate and oversee everything (meaning taking control of our lives away from us), then all the government programs that are out there to help people have to go to, but [she] doesn't like that." Again, this is not a direct quote, but as close as I could come not having been part of the original conversation.

The person involved in this conversation was trying to stir anything up.  he was merely engaged ina  conversation with the other person.  That other person randomly, and for no apparent reason made this comment. 

I would like to offer a little clarity in my beliefs pertaining to the government's interference with our personal lives.  Our government was established on Godly principals with an emphasis on personal freedom.  The government's purpose is to maintain order.  I am talking the preschool version here, folks. 

I want my inalienable rights.  Not my rights as reinterpretted by some politician to benefit his/her personal beliefs; twisted, chewed, and spit out for me to accept.  My inalienable rights, as they were documented and intended.  This is not a hard concept to grasp upon reading through the actual documents of our founding fathers and their history.  If keeping these rights means reducing the amount of "help the people" government programs, then abolish them!  Every time we say our government is responsible to help this group or that group of people, we are also saying, TAX ME!  Yet there is a more important Godly principal being overridden here.

Do you ever wonder how our society handled societal needs before BIG government programs?  The answer is easy, they did what was needed to care for the problem.  People helped each other.  Families relied on themselves to resolve issues.  This is the basic idea that people are responsible for their own lives.  As soon as we began handing out programs to assist every person or group of people who don't have this, or don't have that, or who have a need that they cannot meet, we put the responsibility on our government.  Shifting the responsibility to the BIG guys also gives them power over how we live.  Suddenly are inalienable rights are now alienable.  HMMMM>>>>>  Did you ever wonder how the elderly were cared for before nursing homes?  Family kept the responsibility for their care.  What did families who found themselves without work or income do before welfare?  They overlooked no option for income and made due with what they had.  They were resourceful and took responsibility for their own lives.  Somewhere along the line, someone decided that the government should take on this responsibility and sold the bill of goods to us, the tax payers.  Free money, free food, free lodging, free job training, etc.  As the wise Richard Maybury said, "Tanstaafl!"  Translated:  There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch.  This my friend is what I am against.  If you want freedom, you have to willing to do the work involved in having such.  If you keep demanding that the government take on more and more responsibility in society, you lose that freedom, piece by piece.  Want to look at something interesting?  Check out the decrease of work ethic in our society in relation to the increase of government funded "help" programs. 

We not only force the government to raise our taxes everytime we clamour that the government should be responsbile for our personal lives, but we give up our freedom.  If you agree with this, that is your perrogative, and I respect your opinion.  I however, do not agree.  God commands us to care for others, poor, weak, widowed, orphaned, not the government!  

SIDE BAR:  The original story of how this information came to me is interesting.  The person who made the original statement was a person I love and is important in my life.  The person it was said to was my teenage son.  Does it seem that a Godly principal has been violated when an adult makes an unnecessary derrogatory comment about a child's parent?  While I am not hurt by the comment, I have been deeply hurt by the disrespect this person has shown to me and my son, repeatedly.  I am disappointed that this person lacks the knowledge to understand that it is not appropriate to say non-edifying things about a child's parent to the child.  Of course the principals that everything you speak should be edifying and that you should gather all your facts before you speak, have been violated as well.   A little more prayer and a little more fact finding and this will quite possibly be a good lesson for my son.  Another opportunity for me to grow in the Lord. 

Please post your thoughts on either the main topic or the sidebar.  I am interested in hearing others opinions as I sort through this

These are my thoughts.