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So where do I belong?

I think the most pressing problem this country faces is the uncontrolled growth of the federal government. Government growth is one side of a zero-sum game. In order for government to grow, the freedom of the individual must decline

Taxes are simply a means to control. As taxes rise, freedom is lost. The individual is no longer working for himself but for the government, enabling the government to grow larger and regulate more, thereby taking away more freedom.

There is no sanity in Washington. The government now spends trillions of dollars more than it has. The Senate hasn’t passed a budget in years. Sweeping new powers have been granted to the federal government as it now controls vast sectors of the economy, further eroding the freedom and liberty of the people. We are on the brink of serfdom.

The Constitution has been dispensed with. No where does the federal government have the power to force individuals to purchase a consumer product, yet it now forces us to do so. No where does the federal government have the power to make medical decisions, yet it is now beginning to do so. No where does the federal government have a say in how we educate our children, yet it does so. The list is becoming endless.

Democrats demand more government and wildly cheer when the beast grows. Republicans say. “We are the Party of limited government,” yet they have done nothing to shrink the size of government since the Coolidge administration, long before any of us were even born. Republicans gladly expand the size of government at every opportunity because it gives them more power. At least the Democrats are honest on this one point, they want larger government. The Republicans are worthless liars.

The United States is a sovereign nation. It has legal borders. Anyone caught crossing those borders illegally should be shot as they are crossing, just as a trespasser breaking in your front door in the middle of the night should be shot by the homeowner. The U.S.A. is our home. They are breaking in. As for the illegal foreigners already here, as they are discovered they should be stripped of all assets (house, car, bank accounts, children’s toys, anything that can be found) and immediately deported.

I don’t care what someone does in the privacy of their own home. They can smoke banana plants, freebase tomato sauce and enjoy perverted sex with household appliances and farm animals for all I care. I just do not want to see it nor do I want others harmed or infringed upon by these activities. Any intrusion by the federal government into these activities, out of public scrutiny, is granting the government more power.

Abortion, likewise, follows rules noted above. It IS an infringement and harms – kills – others. Period. Anyone who argues otherwise is either a murderer or advocates the legal murder of others. You may call it a “fetus” to try and dehumanize it but it is a human. The developing child has a heartbeat. She lives, dependant upon the mother, just as all children are dependant upon others until they are fully grown.

So where do I belong? I am not a Democrat. I am not a Republican. I am not a Libertarian. I have voted straight Republican since 1980 just to keep the worst of the choices from office (to no avail) but no political party truely represents my views.

The Libertarians seem to be the closest to my views. Limit the government and adhere to the Constitution and 90% of the country’s ills will vanish. It will be a wasted vote since no Libertarian will ever win high office, but at least I can say I didn’t vote to expand the government and further enslave my children.