Laura Hollis: Our Government Is Failing Us

Since We are (at most nominally) free people. The primary responsibilities of our government should include protecting us against serious external and internal threats. Our federal government — as well as those of some states and cities — is no longer doing that because those who control it are more interested in power and personal gain.

Nearly Since 2004, 6 million illegal immigrants have crossed our southern border illegally. Joe Biden Inauguration of the office was two years ago. Not This administration’s ineffective border enforcement cost only $0 Americans It allows illegal drugs such as fentanyl into our country by allowing them to enter at more than $150 Billion a year. 60% of all fake prescriptions last year contained fentanyl, an increase of 50% in just one year. TwoFentanyl overdoses were responsible for over three-quarters (more than 100,000) of all overdose-related deaths last year. Americans Ages 18 to 49

Retail Theft is a major problem in the country and will cost businesses more than $94 trillion in 2021. How Does California’s It is the responsibility of the legislature to address it? By Passing laws that led to “de facto” Legalization of shoplifting Lawlessness It is a common problem in the Golden State The country has the largest homeless population, and is home to the most drug-using and dirty needle-urinating citizens. There are also piles of human feces on the streets of major cities and the spread of infectious diseases associated with poor hygiene.

Other State governments are making massive efforts to increase criminality. New York abolished cash bail for most crimes in 2019; the resulting increase in repeat offenses — including violent crimes — is unsurprising. And Yet Illinois is trying to do the exact same thing. (The Illinois Supreme Court Recently, the bail elimination component of the 2022 criminal law reform was halted.

Despite The failure of government in its most basic tasks means that those in it often become incredibly wealthy. Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Perhaps the most well-known example is (D-CA). Her net worth has been estimated at approaching $200 million — impressive, given a $220,000 annual salary. Much Investments by her husband are the source of her wealth Paul, who has been able to invest successfully over the years in companies that are affected by federal laws, regulations, and subsidies.

President Joe Biden once described himself as “one of the poorest men in Congress.” He’s It has been made up since. He His wife reported an income of $15 million between 2017-2019.

And This is definitely a bipartisan phenomenon. Ousted Republican Rep. Liz Cheney (WY) entered Congress In 2017, she had a net worth in excess of $7 million. She left this week with an estimated net worth of between $10 and $44 million.

The The same people who make huge sums of cash for themselves are criminally wasteful with ours. Congress Now routinely passes spending bills, which rack up trillions of dollar in expenditures. This includes hundreds of billions given abroad. These bills are thousands of pages long, with only hours allowed to read them — which means that representatives and senators who vote to pass them haven’t even read them.

In Any other profession would be considered malpractice.

We have tolerated the profligacy, the waste, the irresponsibility, the greed for too long because — at the very least — we were permitted to speak our minds, to live our lives, to run our businesses and raise our families as we saw fit.

IncreasinglyWe are being held back in our ability. “Activists” — many with evident mental illnesses — are indoctrinating our children in schools with corrosive politics and warped sexual ideologies.

Experimental Drugs such as the mRNACOVID-19 injections are imposed on us and we are prevented by knowing the truth about their risks to our health and the health of our children.

We We are often lied to and our government conspires alongside major corporations to censor those who attempt to tell truth to the public. Many Many of us knew this already, but it was not obvious to everyone. “TwitterGate” The company’s new owner releases files every few days. Elon MuskThere are many examples.

COVID-19 lockdowns destroyed countless small businesses. New Federal and state regulations were created under the name of “climate change” threaten entire industries. These are being imposed not to protect the population but to cripple us; to extract wealth and redistribute it according to collectivist philosophies; to destroy the prosperity that has created the middle and upper-middle classes — as well as the liberty that prosperity strengthens; and to enslave the majority of humans on the planet to a handful of self-appointed overlords whose resulting wealth will be unimaginable — and unshared.

Our Government should be fighting against All These threats and many others. InsteadIt facilitates them.

Our Declaration Of Independence contains language to justify the decisions of the Founders To throw off the yoke England We must be independent. A just and proper government, Declaration’s According to drafters, the Constitution should guarantee the inalienable rights and freedoms of all people, including the pursuit of happiness, life, liberty, and life. “Whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends,” They went on, “it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness … When a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”

Our An ever-expanding government commits abuse after abusive and usurps our right at every opportunity. It You are dangerously close to becoming the kind of person that the Declaration Of Independence insisted is our right — and duty — to “throw off.”

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