Happy July 4th!

Things will soon be getting crazy, but I thought I'd take a minute to wish everyone who stops here a Happy July 4th Holiday. Here on the PolyKahr estate, for the moment, we can all pretend that we are still free people. No, I will not celebrate by going to the range, but by having friends and family over to eat a lot of food, play games, and enjoy the day.

I also thought I'd leave you with this essay from today's Townhall.com by Carrie Lukas entitled Government Growth Challenging Liberty This July 4th A quote:

We are constrained today because our government is already so large and over-extended. That problem will only get worse. Due to promises the government has already made—most specifically spending on Social Security and Medicare—the share of the economy that government will demand is going to continue to balloon.

This isn't just a matter of dollars and cents. This means that your children and grandchildren will have less control over the money they earn and their property because they will have to pay off liabilities accrued this year. That generation will have less to meet global challenges and each family will have less to meet personal ones.

She goes on to bemoan the tendency each of us has to say, in essence, "there ought to be a law!" and the zeal with which politicians seem to step over themselves making such laws. Its a bad bargain in which the people always lose, and the Government always wins. Stop asking for more from Government, and do more for yourselves. In the end, you'll be glad you did.