{"id":8348,"date":"2013-11-20T11:20:11","date_gmt":"2013-11-20T11:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/11\/20\/the-bigger-the-government\/"},"modified":"2013-11-20T11:20:11","modified_gmt":"2013-11-20T11:20:11","slug":"the-bigger-the-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/11\/20\/the-bigger-the-government\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bigger the Government . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"

. . . the more to fight over.<\/span><\/p>\n

The best proof of this to date is the bitter wrangling and the wastage of time, effort, and money over Obamacare.  This fight will continue until Obamacare is repealed or gutted.  In the long and nasty process, the political climate in this country is bound to become ever more toxic.  Way to go, liberals, way to go!<\/span><\/p>\n

Big government leads to big trouble as we fight endlessly, acrimoniously, and fruitlessly over all sorts of issues that we really ought not be fighting over.    The final clause of the First Amendment of the U. S. Constitution enshrines the right "to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."  So the more the government does things that grieve us, by intruding into our lives and limiting our liberties, the more we will petition, lobby, and generally raise hell with the government and with our political opponents.  <\/span><\/p>\n

If you try to tell me how much soda I can buy at a pop, or how capacious my ammo mags must be, or how I must speak to assuage the tender sensitivities of the Pee Cee, or if you try to stop me from home-schooling my kids, or force me to buy health insurance, then you are spoiling for a fight and you will get it.  Think of how much time, energy, and money we waste battling our political enemies, working to undo what we take to be their damage, the damage of Obamacare being the example du jour.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

So if you want less contention, work for smaller government.  The smaller the government, the less to fight over.<\/span><\/p>\n

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. . . the more to fight over. The best proof of this to date is the bitter wrangling and the wastage of time, effort, and money over Obamacare.  This fight will continue until Obamacare is repealed or gutted.  In the long and nasty process, the political climate in this country is bound to become … Continue reading “The Bigger the Government . . .”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-social-and-political-philosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}