With Purpose: Rethinking the role of Government.

There’s an important question that we the people have failed to ask ourselves about government: “Should you be doing that?” It seems simple, a foregone conclusion, that government would be performing only those tasks essential to running our nation. Unfortunately, this is far from the truth.

Government, if not held in check by the people, will seek to outgrow its framework. In our own history, we can identify several massive expansions of government over the last century. These expansions happened at crucial times when America was either A: too concerned or B: too complacent to bother asking if government SHOULD be taking on these new responsibilities. If we look at the early expansions of government, we find massive expansions of government following the market crash of 1929, and continuing through World War 2.

More recently we have a congress and an administration using the current downturn in the economy to push America farther from our founding principles than at any time in our history. We are most vulnerable in times of crisis. We the people are distracted by our own situation and trusting enough of our government that we allow it to grow beyond its proper role.

It is time for action.

It is time to call upon representatives with credibility that will look at the assumed roles of government and ask the question, “Should we be doing this?” It is time to answer that question with a resounding, “NO!” when appropriate. It is time we roll back government and return liberty to “we the people.” Is it not time we show the next generation how to run an economy while being fiscally responsible? Is it not time that we buckle down and start paying off our debt instead of racking it up in record fashion.

America needs to be leading the world in scaling back big government; after all, we are the ones who showed them what a limited government could do.

Thomas Jefferson: "I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.”