blatham wrote:It is true that part of what we fight against is a conservative or libertarian notion ... that government ought to be pared down to a bare and pristine minium.
Excellently put, though I would add one word:
federal.
I am not necessarily opposed to
government undertaking social programs. I am however opposed to the
federal government undertaking social programs which appear--quite clearly--to me to be outside the powers granted them by our Constitution.
And one of the wonderful things about that document is that it has an amendment process built into it, so that if the will of most people in this country is that the federal government should be undertaking social programs, we can amend the Constitution to empower the federal government in that capacity.
But when we simply allow our government to ignore the Constitution where it suits us, we cede to them the power to ignore it when it does not.
And that, in my mind, is a very bad thing.