Keep It Simple, Keep It Small

Bureaucracies by nature are inefficient. The larger and more complex they get, the worse off the people being governed are. The inefficiencies of big government includes long waits, wasting of resources (financial and otherwise), corruption, etc. Big government also leads people in the government as well as those addicted to the government's service (which is mediocre at best) to be unwilling to take any personal responsibilities. In other words, big government, to which the people look to take care of their every need, leads to a perpetual welfare state where we are all equal to the lowest common denominator.

If we look to government for all things, that also means that we devolve certain freedoms to the government, and thus negate the efforts of all those brave souls who have fought and continue to fight to establish and maintain our freedoms.

Our legal framework was put in place not to replace an authoritarian king with an unwieldy bureaucracy that also dictates our whole lives. Instead it was enacted in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity. Government is there to secure our borders and defend us against our enemies; it is there to enforce the laws, to protect the innocent from the guilty; it is there to maintain the economic freedoms that allow us to care for our needs; and it is there to protect our God given freedoms. Government is nothing less, and certainly nothing more.

Let us eschew the desire to ever increase the size of government, and thus ruin any chance at establishing Justice, Tranquility, and a more perfect Union. Take upon yourself responsibilty, responsibility for yourself and for your families. The government can promote general Welfare, but it is up to the people to take advantage of this free land by striving to better themselves and to bring others up with them. Do not sit idly by as people try to seize your basic freedoms. Let us choose a small and simple government, one that is more fitting to call Of the People, For the People, and by the People.