Here at this blog, I often complain about the government. I complain that it's no longer government for the people (or even by the people, any more). But sometimes readers may not completely understand what I'm talking about. To that end, here is an example of a government response and a freedom-based response:

Let's say you witness a situation created by government: the major roads leading into a city are congested with a large amount of traffic. Upon further observation, you can see that most of the traffic is created by individuals in their cars. While some observers may say that this is not even a problem, for the sake of discussion, we'll accept that there's a problem here.

Now, those who are interested in government-based solutions (socialists, communists, members of the Democrat Party, the media, etc) will all observe and see the problem. Then any solution that will be generated will be based on more government control. These types of people will look at the problem and say, "We've got to do something to STOP these people from creating the traffic jam." In this case, as can be witnessed around the country, government tries to STOP people from causing the traffic jam -- they attempt to force people into mass transit. They waste space trying to force people to drive in carpool lanes. They attempt to force people to stop driving by installing taxes and tolls. In all cases, however, all their efforts are focused on forcing people to do something.

In a freedom-based society, government would not try to force people to do anything (other than prevent them from forcing others to do things). A government that was for the people and by the people would instead ask questions like, "How can we let people do what they desire here and reduce the traffic?" They might actually build more roads. They might adjust the lanes so that more lanes are inbound in the mornings (and not HOV-only). They might move the government offices (and their employees) to a location that would remove those employees from the traffic streams. But in all cases, they would not try and adjust people and tell them what to do.

So go ahead and pick a side -- most people already have. Unfortunately, those who side with me, for freedom, often find themselves aligned against the government behemoth -- and paying for the government to take away their very own freedoms. I just wish more people honestly wanted freedom.

Posted by: Ogre at 03:01 PM | Comments (4) | Add Comment
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