Yesterday I listed great America saving suggestions from Victor Davis Hansen.
Today, as discussed at Breitbart's Big Government, the Heritage Foundation has a longer and well thought out list. Introduction:
"The federal government has grown exponentially, not just in spending (up from approximately $20,000 per household in 2000 to $31,000 today), but in its reach. Government now intrudes into virtually every aspect of our daily lives, from the type of toilet we can purchase, to the mix of fuel we can put in our cars, to the kind of light bulb we can use.
Government policies have stifled domestic energy production while pouring billions of public dollars into alternative energy subsidies, reflecting the elitist, “progressive” faith that bureaucrats can pick winners and losers better than private markets. As a result, energy is too expensive and we have grown too dependent on foreign sources. And now, unelected bureaucrats have been empowered to stipulate what health services we will purchase and how and from whom we will receive them.
Excessive government intervention not only limits individual freedoms, it stifles entrepreneurial creativity and job creation, locks the poor into a lifetime of dependency and poverty, and limits the ability of hard-working Americans to enjoy upward mobility. Moreover, the federal government now dominates in spheres of activity traditionally reserved to the states, leaving little or no room for state-level innovation in policy areas such as education, transportation, health care, welfare, and even law enforcement.
The rapid growth of federal grasp and reach is unsettling, at best. More and more Americans have come to question whether their children will inherit a better future, and even whether it is still possible to achieve the American Dream through hard work. In one of many such indicators, the Gallup Organization reports that Americans are more pessimistic about their future now than at any time since the Carter “malaise” of the late 1970s."
Heritage Foundations's Solutions for America - topics:
- Changing America’s Course
- Restoring the U.S. to a Free Economy
- The Entitlement Crisis
- Reining in Runaway Spending and Deficits
- Tax Reform
- Meeting America’s Energy and Environmental Needs
- The Unsustainable Growth of Welfare
- Making Federal Policy Marriage-Friendly
- The Rising Tide of Red Tape
- Re-embracing Federalism
- Revitalizing Federal Highway Transportation Policy
- Education Reform
- Getting Health Care Reform Right
- The Federalization of Homeland Security
- Overcriminalization
- Civil Justice Reform
- The Role of the Courts
- Ensure that Congress Follows the Constitution
- A Conservative Foreign Policy
- The Building Blocks of a Strong National Defense
- The Threat of Nuclear Weapons
- Holding Terrorists Accountable
- Developing a Strong Border and Immigration Policy
If humans are smart enough to create amazing scientific machinery capable of sending man to the moon or creating a "LHC" (Large Hadron Collider - the world's largest particle accelerator) pictured above, surely there are brains in America who can solve the problems being foisted upon her by the current statist regime run amok in Washington. Heritage and VDH are onto something...
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