[/caption]Sobering thought: despite the fact that we are pushing back hard against big government, we still have a long way to go. If the Federal government isn’t bad enough, we also have to deal with all other levels of government, state and local. And as of January 1st, 2011, there are 31,000 new laws which take effect at the state level.
I don’t know about you but this doesn’t smell like less government to me. Sure, the Feds are the biggest offenders, and its easy to look at the Constitution and say:
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people” (Tenth Amendment in the Bill of Rights)
And justify our pressure against the expansion of the Federal government. But what happens if the state governments simply take up the cause? We can and should focus on what the Federal government is doing, but our jobs just not done there. We’ve got to take it all the way down the line: from the bottom up, by local action, dissolving programs that are wasteful and we don’t need, or privatizing them as quickly as possible.
We need to work hard, at all levels, to reduce the size and scope of government. This is not a single generation’s worth of work either. Remember to teach your kids as well, that:
"That government is best which governs least." Thomas Paine
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