And I’m afraid, based on this last election and many preceding ones, along with life experience of government being involved in every aspect of our lives, we’re past the tipping point. Because when it comes to government, power and money are all about control. That’s why it steals more and more of the one and writes law after law to give itself more of the other.

And the only thing it accomplishes is growth and control for the monster it’s become through its lust in the ultimate control: The very power of life and death of what government calls “constituents,” but throughout history we understand are better identified as the serfs.

For those progressives reading this, that means you as well. After all, no one in control throws off the minions and useful idiots who got them there better than a progressive tyrant. Especially ones who claim they are doing it for the people and their own good. And it’s usually in a violent way as they cast them off.

Read some history, and not from a progressive textbook brought to you by a progressive school district. Or from the New York Times or local newspaper that gets its news from it. The fact is: This unconstitutional takeover and confiscation has been going on since before the ink dried on the parchment in 1787, and it’s been pedal to the metal on steroids for over a century.

Consider a couple of quotes from what one might consider the opposite ends of the political spectrum – odd how those opposite ends are in the same cesspool – one made in the past week and one over a half century ago. Then, try to tell me we aren’t here today.

“A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.” – President Gerald R. Ford in an address to a Joint Session of Congress on August 12, 1974.

“We will prove that there is no problem too large for government to solve, and no concern too small for it to care about … and on January 1st, we will usher in a government who helps everyone.” – Zohran Momdami in an address to supporters upon winning the New York City mayoral election.

From these I see two big problems. First, we are way past a government big enough to give you everything you want. Hell, that’s why most folks go into government to begin with, and it starts with, “There oughta be a law …” Insert your own desire, lust or illegal activity you’d like made “legal” in the dots. Have a look and tell me that most lawmakers aren’t in power to pass laws they lust for humans to bow down and act accordingly to their whims and desires. That’s all government seems to be anymore.

Maybe if we stopped calling them lawmakers, they’d stop making so many laws? But I digress.

Tell me you didn’t see this whole SNAP shutdown fiasco coupled with our Propositions ll and mm for what they really are. The government has taken over much of the feeding of the people and our kids through payola and the schools. So now those folks have what they want via another money laundering (because that’s all government is), vote-buying scheme, at least until the government comes back for more (hence Propositions ll and mm), as now government controls it and takes it away to garner more money and power.

Now you know the reason SNAP isn’t mandatory spending outside of a government shutdown.

Our government is as good at using human shields as any terrorist organization.

It’s all being done in the name of getting your vote. Therefore, the natural position of any vote-grubbing politico in office would be to what? Take away what it gives and then play politics with it at the voters’ expense. Be honest, the government does this in all areas it controls, which anymore seems every area.

And the wheels on the bus go round and round. What do you think the federal shutdown is about? What do you think everything voted on in Denver is about as the budget explodes? Closer to home our examples continue with city council and the school board elections. It’s always about more money and more power. And through them, more control over the lives (and deaths) of the people.

After all, it seems with every decision made in government, one side or the other screams, “People will die!” if we don’t pass this law or that tax or if you don’t give us more control.

Which brings me to the second point in the quotes. Government can’t solve your problems or any problem. And that’s because for every problem (real, made up or otherwise) government attempts to solve for one, it creates problems for another. And that’s before the problem government claims it’s solving is only made worse through the solution.

My reference on that? Literally every law passed since we formed a government.

But Craig, you write all this while offering no solutions, you might say. Isn’t the solution obvious? Stop voting for the government Ford warned you about and Mamdani promises. The end is the same. Government can’t do it, provide or become it.

It’s my, your and everyone’s individual responsibility to do this. And it’s only found here:

In Truth and freedom.

Craig Hall is owner and publisher of The Business Times. Reach him at 424-5133 or publisher@thebusinesstimes.com