John Jay Myers: 2011 State of the Union

John Jay Myers in IPR comments:

Politicians regularly promise people things that they can never deliver. Things that they have no way to deliver. Our government cannot create jobs without losing jobs. They cannot make us safer without threatening our freedoms or making new enemies abroad. They cannot give us health care without taking away quality or increasing prices.

Each side promises everybody everything, and we believe it. They divide America in half in an effort to gain support for their side, pitting Americans against each other, believing that one day… just one day if they could get their guy in office, they would be richer, or safer, or more handsome. They won’t.

They are just going to give major corporations, the insurance industry, the military industrial complex, the oil companies, or foreign lobbies the things that they want, somehow convincing you that these things are in your interest. They are not.

All of these people who promise you things have to get more money so they can promise you more things in more places, more clearly and loudly, on TV, on the radio, and in the news paper. So they need more and more money from their sponsors, either above board at $2400 a pop, or through secret accounts in Antigua.

There is only one solution, stop thinking that the government is going to save you. It is not. Stop requesting that your government do these types of things for you. Government can only take. This country was not made great because we had a government that did everything. It became great because we had a government that stayed out of the way. Freedom is the answer.

The libertarian message is a freedom train and it is heading towards a better America. When we reach a destination 10 years down the road that is too free for you, hop off. In the mean time hold on tight and stop sweating the small stuff.

I know a lot of people placed a lot of bets that the Tea Party was going to save them. The Tea Party was created because of the bailouts, because corrupt politicians voted to give our money to the banks, which is a good reason to start any movement.

Luckily the Tea Party now has Paul Ryan, Eric Cantor, Mitch McConnell, John Boehner and Pete Sessions standing up for them in Congress. Oh wait, Pete Sessions, John Boehner, Mitch McConnell, Eric Cantor and Paul Ryan all voted for the bailouts. That is a little thing called the bait and switch, and that is the State of our Union.

John Jay Myers ran for Libertarian National Committee chair and for US Congress in 2010. He is currently Vice Chair of the Dallas County Libertarian Party and a member of the Texas State LP Executive Committee. He is also a likely candidate for an At Large vacancy on the Libertarian National Committee.