I don’t see how we can keep sharing a government.

     I often reply to people on twitter with one simple phrase. “I’m tired of sharing a government with you.” It’s a simple statement that speaks to something more than the sum of its words. Seriously though, why? The original idea was that thirteen already established colonies would be united under a small hands-off federal government to facilitate things like trade, citizenship, common currency and mutual defense. Does any of that even seem familiar anymore? Does the average Texan have anything in common with the average New Yorker? Why should a congressman or senator from NY have any say in the goings on of a Texan or any other person in any other state? 

     Furthermore, why would we share a currency issued by a federal reserve that is neither public nor has any reserves? The federal government has made life harder on the majority of people almost since its inception. Nixon took us off the gold standard because Europe called his bluff. The federal reserve was printing more money than they had gold to back it. Europe said “give us the gold, you can have your paper back” and then they simply took us off the gold standard. Ever since then, based on the graphic below, you can see that wages have failed to keep up with productivity. Why is that? Short answer: Central planning and the rejection of the free market and sound money. Why should we leave our fates in the hands of sociopaths and psychopaths in unelected positions of power? I say we should not. 

     Why should what you buy or who you buy it from be of any concern to someone in DC? They don’t know you but they purport to rule you. You could ask this of just about any insinuation of the federal government into your life and the answer would almost always be that it’s not their job or business to control X or Y. In the few times that you could come up with something that you think the government should do, or has done better, there is almost certainly a free market solution free of force of law. 

     So continue to ask yourself why we should share a government when each side, Republicans and Democrats, would willingly wield the monopoly of force against their political and ideological opponents with wanton recklessness and not a care of who it affects. I for one am tired of watching some idiot speak from a podium with the seal of Washington telling citizens what they will have to deal with, what they have to do, and lately, without any logic or reason behind their vocal diarrhea. 

     When the economy crashes, let us all, as individuals, agree to no longer give in to the will of psychopaths and sociopaths who would be rulers, thinking it is their turn to wield the nuclear football and instead agree that governing ourselves is the moral and reasonable approach. 

In Liberty