by: Forgotten Liberty

Big Government has failed in the United Kingdom, according to the British publication The Sun.  The Labour party has had control of the British government for 12 years, and it has failed.  Aren’t we heading down the same path?  Our own government is growing at a record pace and so is our debt.  Government can’t solve all of our problems, not even most of them, so why do so many people still believe it can?  Here is an excerpt from an article in The Sun. When you see the word Labour, insert “big, liberal, socialist government.”

Labour FAILED on schools. Yes, facilities improved – but four in 10 kids leave those shiny classrooms still unable to read, write or add up properly. We are plummeting down international league tables for maths and literacy, but every year “grade inflation” ensures record GCSE and A-level passes to fuel Government propaganda.

Labour FAILED on health – spending billions on clipboard-ticking target managers instead of on frontline care.

Labour FAILED on immigration, opening our borders without any regard to the consequences. Illegal migrants and bogus asylum seekers poured in.

Labour FAILED the children they claimed to have made their priority. After 12 years of Blair and Brown, Britain is officially the WORST country in the developed world in which to grow up.

Most disgracefully of all, Labour FAILED our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, leaving them to die through chronic under-funding and the shambolic leadership of dismal Defence Secretaries like Bob Ainsworth.

As our forces in two war zones suffered, the scale of Government waste at home was mind-boggling and tragic:

Billions blown employing a useless layer of public service middle-managers like those who condemned Baby P to die.

Billions more spent, insanely, making benefits more lucrative than a pay cheque – creating a huge, idle underclass for whom work is a dirty word. And all along the Government has had one overriding concern: Itself.

We are seeing the same thing in this country.  The U.K. is a few years ahead of us, but make no mistake, we are traveling down the same road that has failed the British.  Why?  Because we the people have not educated ourselves and our children on the proper role of government.  We have believed the lies of our politicians.  The vast majority of which only want to hold onto their power and will tell whatever lies allow them to do it.

What can we do to fix our country?  The article goes on,

Britain needs a brave and wise Government to restore our self-respect, our natural entrepreneurship and the will of every family to improve its lot through its own efforts, without depending on handouts.

We need a Government that will cut the red tape strangling businesses, that will make affordable tax cuts to stimulate growth, that will reform wasteful public services.

We need a Government with a genuine will to win the war in Afghanistan and the commitment to give our forces whatever they need to do it.

This will not be a Government that merely talks the talk, as Labour has. It will ACT.

We hope, and pray, that the next Government will have the guts and the determination to do these things.

The same is true for our country.  We need lower taxes, smaller government, more personal responsibility, less regulation that stifles and kills growth and less waste and abuse of our tax money.  Last but not least, we need leadership that has the will to make the tough military and diplomatic decisions that will provide for our safety and security here at home and for our allies around the world.

How do we achieve these goals?  By educating Americans about the principles our great country was founded on.  Principles like individual liberty, personal responsibility, small central government with limited and enumerated powers, the free market, and the will to stand up to those who want to take our liberty away.  These principles turned America into the richest and most powerful nation in the world in a little over 100 years.  Why don’t we give them a try again?