“The state now performs so many tasks for us that it will be difficult to cope without it,” London’s Daily Telegraph reports.

“Before the First World War, as A J P Taylor observed, ‘a sensible, law-abiding Englishman could pass through life and hardly notice the existence of the State, beyond the post office and the policeman.’  Now it intrudes into every aspect of our lives, often with benign intent but not always to our benefit.”

The Telegraph goes on to provide examples of creeping government intrusion into private lives and choices, even though the Internet and social networks have given rise to greater freedom of thought and less tolerance for poor service.

“The time has come for it to stop trying to run our lives from the cradle to the grave. The trouble is that we may have turned into a country that feels more comfortable being looked after than looking after itself.”

If you think creeping state power into the most mundane details of your life is solely a European phenomenon, take a look at what happened in Minnesota after the governor’s failure to pass a budget led to a government shutdown.

“Bars and restaurants with no booze; stores with no cigarettes: that’s the picture coming into focus in Minnesota, as the effects of the state’s government shutdown ripple through society. The reasons range from expired liquor permits (which can’t be renewed) to a lack of cigarette tax stamps (which can’t be purchased),” National Public Radio reports. “With the sale of alcohol and tobacco closely regulated and taxed, stores are quickly running through their supplies, and they’re asking for special dispensations that would help them serve their customers.”

Even beer already on the shelves must be pulled because of government intrusion.  “MillerCoors LLC must pull 39 brands of beer from Minnesota bars, restaurants and stores because it failed to renew brand-label registrations before the state government shut down July 1,” Bloomberg reports.

“The registration, which must be renewed every three years with a $30 fee per brand, is required for the manufacturing, distribution or sale of alcohol, said Doug Neville, a spokesman for the Minnesota Public Safety Department.  The state has contacted the company seeking a plan for how it will remove the beer from the state and wants that to happen ‘within days,’ Neville said in a telephone interview from St. Paul.”

You can’t buy beer or cigarettes in Minnesota unless the government has cash?  The Telegraph is right.  The time has come for it to stop trying to run our lives from the cradle to the grave.

As Minnesota’s state failure shows, Republicans and Democrats can’t get it done.  It’s time to vote Libertarian.

And your community may be next.

There’s only way to stop the explosion of government spending, and the destructive rampages that follow when governments spend themselves into bankruptcy…

…we must begin electing more Libertarians.

No community is immune from the threat posed by big spending.

By many measures, Loudoun County, Virginia is the wealthiest community in the United States. Located outside suburban Washington, D.C., Loudoun is home to ambassadors, senior government officials, millionaire CEOs, wine vintners and equestrian enthusiasts.

But even this millionaire’s playground is going bankrupt.  Despite years of steadily rising tax bills, Loudoun politicians can’t keep up with their own appetite for spending.

The wealthiest county in the United State faces a $192 million dollar government budget deficit.

And it’s fueled by a government employee retirement system, which gives even part-time political appointees a full, plush retirement package with no contribution from the employee.

Despite facing fiscal destruction and the loss of its high bond rating over its out-of-control spending, the Board narrowly voted to continue its pig-out spending.

And Loudoun is only one example of thousands of city councils, county commissions and state legislatures that, even facing default, narrowly vote to continue spending their citizens into oblivion.

Just imagine what one Libertarian on one of those bodies would do to tilt the balance and save citizens from bankruptcy.

That’s why we created the Libertarian National Campaign Committee.

If simply being right was all you needed to win an election, Libertarians would have won long ago.

But it’s not.

You must know how to communicate effectively, target the right voters, raise money and get out the vote.

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We’ve seen the terrible price of Big Government in cities like London and Athens.

Now we’re beginning to see it here in the United States.

Just one Libertarian elected to the city council or county commission is all it would take to turn off the spending spigot in many of our communities.

With your help, we can begin to take back our country and bring fiscal sanity back to our communities.

Got an extra $1,400 in your pocket?

That’s how much you’ll have to pay in tax hikes every year for the next 30 years to cover the exploding costs of government employee pensions.

“The study, co-authored by Joshua Rauh of Northwestern University and Robert Novy-Marx of the University of Rochester, both of whom are finance professors, argues that states will have to cut services or raise taxes to make up funding gaps if promises made to municipal employees are to be honored,” Reuters reports.

The Obama administration has already adopted one plan – raising the pensions of non-union workers and giving their retirement funds to unions that support his campaign.

“The administration gave union employees of auto parts supplier Delphi Corp. preferential treatment over nonunion, salaried employees when the U.S. took over Delphi’s pension plan, GOP representatives say,” The Los Angeles Times reports.

Clearly, spending must be cut immediately.

This is why Libertarians are so badly needed in state legislatures and local city councils.  Only Libertarians will make the tough decisions to control spending and rein in government that have grown out of control under Republicans and Democrats and now threaten to bankrupt working families.

Source: CNBC

“Sebelius did leave open the door to the possibility, perhaps sometime in the future, of some government involvement with the food industry in determining what healthy eating is,” Human Events’ John Gizzi reports.

“I think this [sic] is some space,” the HHS secretary said, “that is going to continue to have a robust conversation, because, again, it has a lot to do with underlying health costs and overall health of our nation.”

Under the Obama proposal, food companies would either “voluntarily agree” to remove sugar, sodium and fats from your food, or federal regulators wouldoutlaw their advertising, the Federal Trade Commission, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Food and Drug Administration and the U.S. Department of Agriculture propose.

“The most disturbing aspect of this interagency working group is, after it imposes multibillions of dollars in restrictions on the food industry, there is no evidence of any impact on the scourge of childhood obesity,” said Dan Jaffe, executive vice president of the Association of National Advertisers, according to Human Events.

Control what you eat from Washington, D.C., or criminalize its advertising?

Isn’t it time we elected Libertarians?

Source: HumanEvents