America’s time as an economic leader is coming to an end. We can hope to revive small business as indicated in the article, but progressives have, over the last six decades, put in place a massive impediment that has increasingly slowed innovation & growth to a standstill much more effectively than any economic factor.
I am speaking of the massive regulatory agencies now in place at all levels of government. We now have a huge unelected bureaucracy churning out regulations in a totally uncontrolled, unsupervised process. It has come to the point where, every day, we unknowingly violate some regulation from some government agency. The only reason we are not arrested is because there is a paucity of law enforcement. However, when politics of the moment randomly shifts its focus, we hear news articles of yet another poor schmoe being harassed mercilessly in court and/or being sent to prison for some strange violation. This is totally arbitrary, gratuitous, and highly yet deceitfully politicized.
We are no longer free, we only have an illusion of being so. Our society is bureaucratically frozen, with a legal system that creates conflict in order to get its cut no matter who wins. Over the past decades, our worthless elected officials have foisted their responsibilities off onto a vast hidden world that is so complex, arbitrary, and politically motivated that no American has a snowball’s chance in hell of confronting it.
No President, even Reagan, has ever successfully closed even one agency of the federal government. The only way I can see to fight this monster is to starve it by withholding funds, and the only way to do that is to pass an Amendment that restricts the absolute size of government via both funding and personnel caps, perhaps based on census figures. This type of Amendment and another one limiting Congressional terms of office should be absolutely essential, primary goals of the Tea Party Movement.
