Democracy and Power:  104 Future Debt Burden A government debt is a government claim against personal income and private property – an unpaid tax bill. – Hans F. Sennholz, All democracies institute programs for current voters and shift the debt to future workers, even the unborn.  Social Security, Medicare, prescriptions drug benefits for seniors are prime...

Democracy and Power 108:  Obfuscation Wherever politics intrudes upon economic life, political success is readily attained by saying what people like to hear rather than what is demonstrably true. Instead of safeguarding truth and honesty, the state then tends to become a major source of insincerity and mendacity. – Hans F. Sennholz  Fearing legislated failures,...

Democracy and Power 101:  Government is power In order to get power and retain it, it is necessary to love power; but love of power is not connected with goodness but with qualities that are the opposite of goodness, such as pride, cunning, and cruelty. – Leo Tolstoy Supreme Court rules for Religious Freedom By unanimous decision, the Supreme Court strongly...

Democracy and Power 107:  Counting votes Successful … politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies. – Walter Lippmann (1889-1974), American Journalist and Author In a democracy, the...

Personal Freedom and Power VII:  Limiting Governance As government expands, liberty contracts. -President Ronald Reagan Obama: “The government we have is not the government that we need.”  President Obama claims government needs major, structural reform.  He is absolutely correct.  He is absolutely wrong, however, about the solution.  As President, Mr. Obama...