American youth has strayed from founding values
Caleb Cavarretta, Reporter
April 26, 2010
Filed under Blog
Far too often, the youth of America turns to government for solutions to our problems.
How can we help the poor? Take from the Rich. How can we save the economy? Throw tax-payer dollars at it. How can we stop gang violence? Trample the second amendment. How can we expand health coverage? Force people to buy it. These are the solutions put forward by those who support big government.
These are not the values that our Forefathers had. In 1776, a nation was founded out of resentment towards a government that had control over a people who had no voice in it; resentment towards unjust taxes imposed by a government 3000 miles away; resentment towards economic regulation that hindered expansion; resentment towards a government-established monopoly of one of the most important industries of the time.
This nation was founded out of want for freedom from government, a place where you could live free of its restrictions. The government that replaced a British Parliament and King was restricted from touching the rights and liberties of the people. A nation where a man can decide his own destiny was brought into this world. This was an attempt by Britain’s former colonies to bring things back to before they were taxes and regulated by a legislature which they were not represented in. This was not the terror of the French revolution, or the evil of the Bolshevik revolution. This was freedom.
How can we help the poor? Provide free economic opportunity to all, a world where any mine can rise from the bottom to the top. How can we save the economy? Cut taxes and regulations that hinder it. How can we stop gang violence? Spur economic development in the inner city to get people off the street and in jobs. How can we expand health care coverage? Make it cheaper by making it easier for a doctor to practice without the fear of lawsuits, and break state health insurance barriers to create more competition.
These are the kinds of solution that are based on our founding values.
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Sorry kid, but you have a rudimentary knowledge of what the founding fathers intended for our country, and absolutely no perspective on how much our world has changed since then (hello, technology). Notice how well deregulating the banks and Wall Street helped at our economy (The Great Recession) and how deregulation helped our environment (The Gulf Oil Spill).
Please, kindly read a book and get your head out of the sand. In the mean time, please spare the readership of The Image your partisan nonsense. It is childish to believe that any one of your suggestions (deregulation, or cutting taxes) will solve all of our problems.
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I can see your side of the argument, but the solutions you provide to the problems in the second paragraph are much better than those at the end.
Sure, if you provide free economic opportunity, some people will be in a better position than they would be otherwise, but it still leaves a lot of people in bad situations. The reason people are poor today is the capitalist system we have now that was not regulated enough to stop a recession.
Besides, how would you know if the founding fathers had similar view to yours? Also, you mention of the second amendment being “trampled”, but the second amendment was written over 200 years ago, when the morals of the founding fathers were much different.
Should we really be focusing on what a bunch of dead people would have wanted or should we actually make progress in the world?
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