Rep. Scott Garrett (R-NJ): Culture of Control is Unfair & Un-American

MAR. 4, 2014 - Despite not knowing your situation or your specific needs, perfect strangers now decide what is best for you. ✧ Whether it's the food you want to eat, the home loan you want to get, the toys your kids want to play with, the cars you want to drive or how much water your toilets can flush, America's everyday choices have always been plentiful. A primary reason for this abundance is the tradition of negligible government intrusion in your lives. ✧ Unfortunately, this tradition has been eroded over the years, and your choices and your freedom to make even the smallest decision are suffering because of it. ✧ Faceless bureaucrats — strangers who have decided they know better than you — set out a handful of options that they like and force you to "choose" from them. In today's America, this is what government bureaucrats pass off as your choice. The façade of choice is present, but — as you and I both know — we accept their dictates or else.

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IBD: Choices Ahead For Today's Unions

INVESTORS.COM, 9/3/2010 - Politics: Less than two years ago, everything seemed to be breaking unions' way. Now they're on the defensive. Something went very wrong on the road to the liberals' idea of paradise. ∴ This Labor Day weekend is the official kickoff point for what AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka calls a "massive mobilization" to elect Democrats in November. To hear him tell it, voters face a choice between "a fundamentally different economy that values hard work and a strong middle class" or a return "toward one that puts corporate interests before people." ∴ But the labor movement faces a choice, too. It can keep going down the road to political disaster, or it can wise up and realize that a "fundamentally different economy" is not really what people want. ∴ They want prosperity and jobs, not a government-led war against capitalists [Emphasis added]. And they have a bone or two to pick with the unions themselves. Read more at IBD... Read More......