So many times I have heard the average person bemoan the crumbling state of the US government and how there is no hope for tomorrow and that we are just circling the drain, waiting for someone else to conquer us. Then I go to law school, where the students and the professors think that we’ve got a great system and it only has a few minor “problems” that need “fixing” and if we can just get the right government “program” put into place or the right "legislation" passed, we will all be happier.

I am sorry to disappoint you, but neither position is the case. We can do something about the destitute condition of our government. Or perhaps I should change the emphasis on that sentence: We can do something about the destitute condition of our government. As long as we sit idly by and expect politicians to do something or for another government program to solve all our ills, we will end up just circling the drain.

This country was founded by citizens getting fed up with the corruption, waste, and oppression of their government, taking arms and righting the wrongs they saw. The government that rules best, rules least. We have tried it the other way for more than a hundred years, when will we learn that the national governmental behemoth is what is crushing this country. We look at morbidly obese people and wonder how their bones support such massive amounts of excess.

Well, ladies and gentlemen, we have a morbidly obese government. And I’m not just talking about government spending, I’m talking about the scope, breadth, and depth of government regulations. The Constitution was VERY clear what things the government could regulate and what things they could not regulate.

It’s about time we took control of our government, before someone else does and instead of a government serving its people, we will be a people serving the government… I wonder if we aren’t already there.

Let's face the facts: The biggest threat to America is that we will become a completely socialist state. We're already part way there: Welfare, Social Security, Subsidies, Pork, Rampant spending and taxation. We have forgotten what the Founding Fathers were fighting for. They weren't just fighting for freedom, but the Constitution they wrote was designed to prevent the government from getting out of hand. But we have ignored those safeguards, instead doing whatever was expedient to get someone else to solve our problems now.

We must take back our country from the socialist movement before it is too late.