A Challenging Question for Liberals

Generally speaking, do you know anyone who thinks the government makes decisions in our best interests? Personally, I don't believe the government (local, state, or federal) has my best interest in mind when writing and pushing legislation. The government has become more and more of a self-proclaimed babysitter or nanny to the population and it's coming at the cost of our individual freedoms.

So, to the point...ask your liberal friends, or any liberal for that matter, if they trust the government to do what's best for us as the people they represent? If the answer is anything but a strong "Yes! Absolutely!" then you need to ask these people why they have any desire whatsoever to vote for a candidate (either one, Mrs. Clinton or B. Hussein Obama) who wishes to have more control over our lives and expand the number of decisions made for you. They both want to increase taxes taking more of your income away from you to spend how they see fit. That eliminates just a little bit more of your freedom to choose where to spend your money. They want to develop a program for socialized national healthcare where they take away your freedom to choose whether or not to have insurance at all, let alone your freedom to choose which company to support and which plan to choose. They want to take away your firearms in the name of ending gun violence, but in reality, they're taking away our ability to hunt and participate in shooting competitions and most importantly, our right to self defense. They want to give amnesty to a large number of individuals who come here to take money out of our economy in favor of sending it back "home" where they came from and at the same time, they want all the social welfare programs, benefits, and perks of being a true, legitimate citizen. These candidates want to basically penalize the system of free enterprise by imposing penalties and harsher taxes on those who are successful financially. They want to rally the workers to gang up against the business owner because the business owner is wealthy and successful. The problem with penalizing the ownership is when you take their profits away, they don't expand their businesses. When they don't expand the business, new jobs aren't created and if you're not growing, usually in the business world, you're dying. When the business is dying, jobs go away resulting in more people on the welfare system becoming dependent upon the government to take care of them.

I've been listening to suggestions that the government should be buying up mortgages to save them from foreclosure to protect the lending institutions. I don't know about you, but I don't want the government to own my house. If they do, they can take it away or send in any inspection team they want and there goes my rights to privacy. If I wanted to live in housing the government owned, I'd be poor and move in with the others who can't/won't make it on their own.

So, if you value the freedom to make your own choices and not being told which insurance you have to have, how much of your allowance you're allowed to bring home to your family, whether or not you may defend your family with a firearm, or pretty much anything else for that matter, why would you even consider voting for a Democratic candidate?

Do you trust your government? Do you want the government to be your nanny?