<human>: why are we now so willing to give these up? Why do I feel we're "OK" with letting government be part of every aspects of our lives? Why are we "OK" with letting government have about 50-60% of our income (by the time is all set and done)? Why are we letting government telling us what we should and should not eat, what car should we buy, how much electricity should we use, how we educate our children, how many employees a small business have before punitive taxes make it prohibitive to hire more people and expand, giving insane amounts of tax payer money for subsidies that end up in the pockets of the the big 5 of agro business and many many many other examples where we as a country either don't care or are otherwise all too happy to yield our freedom, money and liberties to our government. 

This is *NOT* about Republicans or Democrats so please leave the politics aside. This is nothing this administration or the last did. In fact, it's something that has been going on for the last 4-5 administrations. We, however, keep voting them into power and seem to be unwilling to vote them out of office for messing up or for failing to meet their campaign promises.

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<bot>: It's independence day. Celebrate it and think about our most important properties of all: our freedom and civil liberties and how our government is little by little trying to take over them.