Over at howtostart.org an author opines that the problem with America is government and the party system:

The biggest problem in America today is not George W. Bush, but he does give it a face. The biggest problem in America today is that the party line has been drawn over our lives, drawn down the center of the nation, drawn through our homes and families. Rather than Republicans and Democrats agreeing on a vision of America but disagreeing on the means to achieve it, the two parties point their fingers, call their opponents names, and declare the other side unpatriotic. The Republicans are running on a platform of “the Democrats will destroy America”, while the Democrats do practically nothing at all, proud to not be Republicans. And we, the people, call them leaders. We, the people, elected them. We, the people, make their jobs easy because we, the people whom they have sworn to serve, don’t question them.

 No, you are incorrect. Without getting into the fact that this blogger fails to define the “problems with America” as anything other than her personal disagreements with the way the 9/11 tragedy was handled and the Bush administration in general; the real problem America faces today, and the biggest threat to the election in 2008, is the fact that we live in a lazy, greedy society. As a result of our growing slothishness we look to more and more to government to solve our problems. Exhibit A: Healthcare; one of the major issues in the election will be whether the people sign off on some socialist policy to have heathcare in this country run by the government. Does anyone really want their local hosptal to be run by the same people who run Walter Reed? Do we want the woman behind the post office counter running the triage in the ER? No sane person wants that kind of ineffcency. (more…)

The concept of liberty manistests itself in the exercise of our free-will. Our country was founded to protect, enhance and preserve the free-will of its citizenry. Since the depression, however, the Democrats and leftists in this country have been killing liberty with every social progam conceived to expand “equality”.  Liberty and equality, with the notable exception of the moment of creation, are often mutually exclusive, and the acceptance of ”equality-based” policies is slowly killing liberty.

The signs are there: Hillary Clinton’s healthcare mainfesto, her statement that “fairness comes only through good government policy“, John Edwards movement to eliminate poverty, the movement to provide amnesty to criminals crossing our borders and the scary powerful environmental movement just touch the surface of liberty killing policies. The purpose behind these ideas and movements is not the furtherance of liberty, or free-will, but the imposition of action by our omnipotent federal government.

These policies, though perhaps well intentioned, lead to the kind of government control that many of the great leaders of this country fought and died to prevent, and we are on the verge of electing someone who will sell our souls for their notions of “equality”. Leave equality for the French, we choose liberty.