The Growth of Tyranny

SEE HERE The power grabs coming out of the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) suggest that it's long past time to rein in the growth of unchecked pseudo-legislative power propagated by the growth of government regulation of all aspects of our lives. The government is always coming up with nice sounding things that are generated with the best of intentions and they almost invariably go wrong somewhere along the way, often leading to unintended consequences. How did we possibly survive all these years without all this help? Well we did and we thrived. That seems to be something being reversed as fear of everything is instilled in us and then we're invited to sign up for nice sounding measures to protect us. These cost money and jobs, but don't worry all will be well, government only has your best interests at heart, here drink a little of this it will calm you down. Pretty soon you have helmets and seat-belts, and explosive devices in your cars, and warnings on everything some of which are hilarious. You're warned about this and that and everything else, often things that people used for generations without serious ill effect. I suppose it ends when we're all wrapped in a cocoon at birth and fed with a intravenous tube will visions of sugar plums are piped into our sensory system.

The question isn't whether individually some of these measures aren't effective. Some are. The question is whether government should be involved in this overwhelming effort to protect you from yourself. Where is the scope for personal responsibility and the discipline of learning how to take responsibility? Everyone is a victim now and everything is someone else's fault. That's nonsense of course, but just watch the panorama around you as everyone is transformed into a whiny-butt. As a free citizen of a free country the government isn't chartered to take care of your every need. You're supposed to grow up sometime and take care of yourself. The government needs some serious push-back as they rob you of your rightful dignity as a human person and tell you how to live your life. Who gave them the right?