A government big enough to help you is big enough to hurt you even worse…

As we reflect on the historic campaign speech given by Senator Obama last night, let us consider the inevitable conclusions on what it all means to the size of our government.  Let us examine the control it will be required to assert over our lives to accomplish almost any of it.  And let us also reflect on how our already large government, right now, asserts control over our lives: http://thisiscommonsense.com/2008/08/29/big-brother-vs-burger-and-fries/

Please, someone wake me.  I’m having an authoritarian nightmare where the Federalists won and the Anti-Federalists were all discounted as kooks and chicken-littles with quiet mumbles of “I’m going to have to say ‘I told you so’ in about 200 years”.

In these sentiments, Sir, I agree to this Constitution with all its faults, if they are such; because I think a general Government necessary for us, and there is no form of Government but what may be a blessing to the people if well administered, and believe farther that this is likely to be well administered for a course of years, and can only end in Despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic Government, being incapable of any other.

-Benjamin Franklin