Friday is the Fourth of July.
What is going to you have a good time?
Freedom from the English monarchy?
To me, the Fourth is about freedom, interval.
When the Founders signed the Declaration of Independence, they put forth a radical concept: Rights do not come from kings or presidents. They arrive from being human.
Authorities’s job is to guard these rights.
This concept, a restricted authorities that protects particular person rights, turned out to be America’s secret sauce.
It made us a freer and richer nation than some other in historical past.
Though the Founders did not get all of it proper.
We had slavery, Alien and Sedition Acts, the Indian Removing Act, Prohibition, the Patriot Act.
However the framework the Founders set contained instruments to repair our wrongs. Individuals can communicate freely, protest, and alter unhealthy legal guidelines.
Right this moment “democratic socialism” is fashionable with younger folks. They seem able to make certainly one of their very own the following mayor of New York Metropolis.
Why? How can they be so ignorant?
Look all over the world. The place would they like to dwell?
The Cato Institute’s Human Freedom Index ranks nations by how properly they respect particular person freedom. Switzerland, New Zealand, and Denmark are ranked on the high. The U.S. ranks seventeenth. All of the high-ranking nations are fairly good locations to dwell. In these nations, folks prosper.
Meaning we all know what works! Our founders discovered the method. Predictable rule of legislation, plus particular person freedom.
When authorities is proscribed, persons are free to strive higher issues.
The Wright brothers did not invent a aircraft as a result of Congress issued a grant. Elon Musk would not construct reusable rockets as a result of bureaucrats inform him to (in reality, they get in the way in which).
Most good issues occur when authorities leaves folks alone.
New York Metropolis’s doubtless new mayor needs “city-owned grocery shops” that he claims “will scale back overhead and go on financial savings to consumers.”
School-educated voters imagine these items! Though each time that is been tried, it failed. Authorities shops gave you lengthy traces, low high quality merchandise, and shortages.
Against this, supermarkets run by grasping capitalists are sometimes open 24/7. They’re properly lit, have extensive aisles, and supply amazingly low cost costs. The standard of what they promote is usually good.
That is the free market.
Democratic socialists additionally say authorities ought to provide you with free faculty, well being care, debt forgiveness. Sounds nice.
However “free” simply means another person should pay for it.
As well as, “free” means much less freedom as a result of politicians determine who will get what. The extra authorities decides, the much less you determine.
Every time authorities grows, freedom shrinks.
It is one purpose I am upset that Trump’s “Massive, Lovely Invoice” is claimed to extend the federal deficit by about $3.3 trillion.
That may permit authorities to get even greater.
It is as much as us to remind our children and neighbors why this nation works when others failed.
It isn’t the flag, the fireworks, or the politicians. It isn’t handouts from authorities.
It is the liberty to be left alone. To strive issues, and check out once more. It is the braveness to say “no” when somebody with a badge or a flowery hat tells you the way to dwell.
What actually units America aside is what the Declaration of Independence says plainly: “All males are created equal…endowed by their Creator with sure unalienable Rights.”
“We the Folks” as is written within the Structure set limits on authorities that no bureaucrat ought to have the ability to take away.
Preserving liberty takes fixed vigilance as a result of there’s at all times a smooth-talking politician promising us one thing for nothing—if we simply hand over just a little extra of our freedom.
This weekend, as you watch the rockets glare and bombs bursting in air, think about the fireworks a reminder that freedom is not granted by authorities. It is one thing that should be shielded from authorities.
That is what the Fourth of July means to me: the concept we’re free to form our personal lives.
When folks have that freedom, wonderful issues occur.
Completely satisfied Independence Day.
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