There are nearly 45 million reasons for the opportunities most of us have enjoyed over the last 75 years. 658 thousand of them died fighting wars to preserve my liberty and yours. Another 1.5 million of them sacrificed their limbs, their health and their fortunes for the cause of life, liberty and the opportunity to pursue our individual happiness. Many more hundreds of thousands have died in the process of pioneering and building the country we have enjoyed up to now.
Today, our federal, state and local governments, through recent acts and omissions, have chosen to ignore or discount the value of the sacrifices and contributions that our parents and ancestors made to the prosperity we have all had the good fortune to enjoy. Our many dishonorable federal and state officials now look at our prosperity with the attitudes of common criminals who wish to steal as much of it as possible for their political friends, certain special interests and for themselves.
Often operating outside the boundaries set forth in our Constitution, legislators scoff at the notion of representative government. Now, many openly promote socialism while allowing government abuse of the DOJ, IRS, DHS, FBI, State Department and other government agencies to go unfettered and unpunished.
Ayn Rand wrote, in 1957, a book called “Atlas Shrugged” in which she warned of all that is happening to our country today. She lived through two Russian revolutions and witnessed the communist takeover of her homeland. Emigrating to the United States in 1926, she later recognized the early stages of our shift toward statism. Everyone interested in the preservation of liberty and the right to one’s life and property should read this prophetic novel and others in which she laid out the arguments for the right of the individual to live for his or her own sake….and to sacrifice no one to himself without the other’s consent.
Socialism, anyone?