Take a lesson from Cuban citizens

We Americans have become disoriented and ignorant of what makes us prosperous and free. Cuban citizen have learned the hard way that the free market is what propels a nation to have a strong economy.

Today's Cuban citizen does not envy the rich. There are none except government officials. The average citizen is given $20 a month from Papa Castro, Fidel and now Raul. The only thing the people want is the freedom to start their own business, earn their own money and hire their own people. These self-taught ex-communists want not to be dependent on government but be self-reliant people.

Fidel graciously allowed 147,000 work licenses in the 1990s to generate revenue. Recently Raul has added another 178,000 for citizens to open their own businesses from scratch because the utopian vision and promises were a total failure.

Our ruling class in Washington, D.C., is enthralled with the failed policies of the Castro brothers. They are transforming us into a centralized economy. These proponents of Marxist doctrine are misdirecting the people by quibbling over miniscule cuts in the budget as compared to the astronomical trillions of dollars of debt. These savings will not decrease what we owe but merely slow down the rate of growth. They are committed to expanding the federal government until it devours the free market.

I strongly recommend reading the full article.

This isn't just a Democrat thing. Bush and the Republicans expanded government a great deal from 2001 through 2006. They doubled the size of the Department of Education, and added 50% or more to the Department of Energy, the EPA and several other regulatory agencies which exist to burden (and ultimately shut down) private businesses.

Now, the newly elected Republican controlled congress has:

Failed to pass the appropriations bills required to fund the government. In a little over a month, this will force more "continuing resolutions" and ultimately, a pork laden "Omnibus spending bill" with budget increases everywhere.
Failed to actually cut (reduce below prior year amounts) any spending this year or in any plans for any future years.. As part of the debt ceiling deal, the Republicans have not proposed any actual cuts to spending. They proposed to continue spending growth. Every "future budget" proposed in the debt ceiling deal is larger than the previous years. There are no actual cuts to be found in that deal. The "Super Committee" won't deliver any actuall reductions in spending either. They might reduce spending growth some, but every year, the federal budget will increases after they make their trillions of fake "budget cuts."

The problem is also not limited to Washington and the Federal Congress. Many of our Federal problems are a result of our local and state officials not understanding the constitutional role of the Federal government. If your city councilman requests a "federal grant" to upgrade the playground in your local park, then your city council is part of the problem. Congress might not ignore the limits of Article 1, Section 8 of the constitution as much if our local and state officials didn't ask them to.

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