I love this great and beautiful country, and I often ask myself: “How did we allow ourselves to get into this current mess?” I think because too many of us thought another law would solve another injustice, we have turned the blessing of rule of law into a tyrant. Like Esau, we have traded our children’s, our grandchildren’s and our great-grandchildren’s birthrights for a bowl of lintel soup.

I attended the American Tea Party held in Pocatello last Wednesday where I was approached by a reporter from the Idaho State Journal. The reporter asked me “Why was I there?” My response to her question as best I can remember was, and I paraphrase, I want President Obama, his administration and this Congress to fail in their agenda. I don’t like the course they are charting for the country. I would add the following comments. I think they are bent on destroying the so-called “selfish-greedy” free enterprise capitalism that made this country great, and replacing it with, in their eyes, “benevolent-fair” central planning socialism, which will ultimately cause our demise. That’s a course I don’t care to travel...

I will be the first to admit we need change in this country, but not the kind President Obama recommends. We need to return to limited government, and the principles of the founding fathers. They feared an all-powerful government, and so should we.

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