The website Lew Rockwell has an excellent article on it this morning. The article, entitled The Enemy is Always The State addresses how governments are always using various crises in order to increase tis power. By using crises as opportunities to expand its power, it grows to ever expanding proportions. The Union has done this to us year after year since it began its occupation of the South. By using various mandates, it has grown to empire size.

One example is how FDR used World War II to expand the power of government. The government forced many of the young men into the army and then used the subsequent labor vacuum as reason to justify the increase in immigration from Mexico (who was a trading partner of Nazi Germany) in order to fill the void. More government was needed to deal with the problem it had created. Government saw itself as the solution to the crisis it created. It was a self-serving crisis. This type of pattern has occurred repeatedly throughout history. The answer to problems is NOT more government. Even in the housing crisis, the answer is NOT more government involvement. The answer is going to be just the opposite, we need less federal government involvement.

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J Murrah

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