“Where, oh where, has my liberty gone?” we cry.
Too often the answer is, “The ‘government’ stole it!”
Liberty-loving Americans must bring politics and economics back into the first person.
We speak of the “the government” and the “the economy” as if they were independent, conscious entities.
But the “government” is people, interacting with each other and operating according to forms and policies established by we the people and our duly elected representatives.
Likewise, the “economy” is people interacting and acting according to economic forms and norms in the interest of bringing value to themselves and those they love.
Where has our liberty gone? It has gone into the oblivion of the third person — that third person being “i Government.”
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