1/29/2013

Opinion

This Country Was Founded On Freedom - And On Big Government:

Some of the more vocal of the radicals on the far right fringes of nutter-topia like to blather on about how "this country" ( The United States ) was founded on "freedom" and not on the idea of " big government. "

There is some truth to that if you look at it a certain way but if you are any student of "Real" History - - not the revisionist kind that you might find in some Bible Belt  school textbooks since their great revisions took place some months ago - - - you might run across the fact that the original "government" of the U.S., ( the one that based operations on things called 'The Federalist Papers' ) - - before the writing of the present-day Constitution was seen by the Founding Fathers as "Too Small" and weak and inefficient to be up to the task of seeing to the best interests of the nation - - - and it was because of this fear of small government's disadvantages that led to the adoption of the Constitution which was written to ensure a large Central Government that would actually be big enough and powerful enough to get the job done.