Republicans and Democrats have used accounting gimmicks and competing government analyses to deceive the public into believing that 2 + 2 = 6. If our leaders cannot agree on the numbers if 'facts' are fictional how can they possibly have a substantive debate on solutions?
So Indian policy has become institutionalized and the result has been that American people have become more dependent on government and that the American people have become more dependent on corporations.
Religion flourishes in greater purity without than with the aid of Government.
Barack Obama's enemies are the people who make this country work. Barack Obama's enemies are those who succeed. Those are the people whose income he wants to redistribute. Those are the people whose income he wants to take using the power and the force of the federal government to do it.
We believe as our founders did that 'the pursuit of happiness' depends upon individual liberty and individual liberty requires limited government.
It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But there is no alternative to the state.
The people's government made for the people made by the people and answerable to the people.
Obama is trying to paint us as a caricature as if we're some bizarre individualists who are hardcore libertarians. It's a false dichotomy and intellectually lazy. Of course we believe in government. We think government should do what it does really well but that it has limits.
Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.
The rights of persons and the rights of property are the objects for the protection of which Government was instituted.