09/17/2024
FROM BRIAN WESBURY
From a young age I learned to love America and what it stands for. I have never wanted any bad thing to happen to the country, or any of its leaders.
I am also an economist that has studied, read, and thought about history and economic theory for 40 years. This thinking has led me to believe, to keep it short and sweet, that small government is the best government. I fully support sweeping cuts in government spending, staffing and power.
Somehow, by asking for a smaller government, and showing the damage that a big government does to America, I, and those who think like me, have become enemies of the current regime. They call us threats to democracy, when what we really are is a threat to their hold on power.
Somehow, wanting the regime to lose power is equated to wanting something terrible to happen to them personally. That is simply not the case. I want all those people who are living off the government to start serving their fellow man in the private sector.
It means giving up their special perks, like drivers, staff handling all their needs, and being called Madam this or Honorable that. No one in America should have to kowtow to any of these people. To them, they view it as a threat, the most awful thing that could happen to them.
To me, it seems necessary and good and virtuous. I refuse to be told that I am evil, racist, dangerous, etc for wanting this…because I am not. I want less power in the hands of so few people. That was why we started the United States of America in the first place.
