Parker: A Symptom of What Ails Us



Star Parker

Townhall - Unionized government workers who have taken to the streets to protest moves in Wisconsin and Ohio to limit their power are doing us all a favor. How? Our great nation today is sick and badly in need of therapy. The screams and protests of these government union workers should help all Americans identify these public unions as a major symptom of the sickness that is dragging us down and what we need to do to fix it. America is about freedom – political freedom and economic freedom. Our nation has been a human laboratory which has shown, for all the world to see, that the moral truths that underlie our freedom produce bounty and prosperity. It has been those moments when we have departed from the blueprint for freedom laid out so clearly in our Declaration of Independence – that our Creator endowed us with certain rights and that men form government to secure and protect those rights – when we have had pain.

The willingness of the founders to tolerate slavery in a country designed to be free produced a legacy of pain which haunts us still today. Today’s departure is the extent to which we have allowed a culture of force to take hold, limiting our freedom and the natural bounty it produces. The two fronts of this culture of force is the growth of government, where the institution there to protect us is now telling us what to do, and with union power, which goes hand in hand with government power. Read full column here: News New Mexico

Parker: A Symptom of What Ails Us