The Cost of Dependency
How did we get here? How did we get to a federal government spending $6 trillion in a single year? How did we get to the myriad of agencies and regulations controlling every aspect of our lives?

Why is it that a single person in the White House or nine judges in black robes rule over our lives while Congress continues to pass laws in direct violation of their member’s oath of office?

Strip away all of the rhetoric, all of the emotion, and all of the politics, and I think you will come to the same conclusion that I have. It is because the American people have become dependent on big government.

We just recently celebrated Independence Day. Many of us remembered those in 1776 that were tired of being led by a tyranny 3,000 miles away, and wanted to make decisions for themselves. We declared that the thirteen colonies were now free and independent states, so that the people of those states could live at liberty, without unnecessary external influence.

But freedom and liberty are hard. It takes work, sacrifice, and responsibility to decide for yourself what you will do and how you will do it. It’s much easier to allow someone else to make those decisions for us. It’s hard work to convince your neighbor of the rightness of your cause. Why not allow someone else to force them into compliance?

Over the years, decades, and even centuries, the American people have given up their sovereignty, and become increasingly dependent on government to provide, protect, and guide them. Our ancestors, who gave up our liberty in exchange for ease, rarely, if ever, considered the costs they were placing on the following generations.

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