Comments for Big Government or Small Government? at http://jbs.org , comment 1 to 5 out of 5 comments http://jbs.org Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:33:57 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://jbs.org/jbs-news-feed/5535-big-government-or-small-government#comment-2677 I have the book Basic Government by Clarence Carson as my Dad Peter Steele earned a Valley Forge Freedoms Foundation award in 1957. The award has General George Washington on one knee praying to God for victory and free our country from King George III. I have Thomas E. Woods' book Politically Incorrect Guide to the Founding Fathers and a book on Thomas Jefferson who never fathered Sally Hemings' children. Dad was badly hurt by LBJ and Vietnam hurt me. BGen Peter F. Steele, USMC [Ret] son of the late RADM Peter Steele, USN [Ret] and friend of Barry M. Goldwater, Sr. - Peter Steele Sun, 25 Oct 2009 10:19:11 +0100 http://jbs.org/jbs-news-feed/5535-big-government-or-small-government#comment-2675 Distrust of government was a great step forward, but another step forward is the recognition that government, like fire, is simply a useful tool that will burn the house down if it gets out of control. I don't "distrust" fire - I simply follow the advice that I get from the fire department when I use it; advice such as, keep a fire extinguisher handy, smoke detectors all over the house, keep the fire contained and only use it for what you really need it for. And, of course, if you can use electric heat instead, that's even safer. Freedom is a matter of knowing what works and what doesn't work in human affairs, and favoring the former over the latter. That requires two things: discernment and character, because it is so easy to believe a sales pitch that makes us feel we don't have to work too hard, and will still be taken care of. - eyeopener Sun, 25 Oct 2009 05:14:30 +0100 http://jbs.org/jbs-news-feed/5535-big-government-or-small-government#comment-2671 In defense of DDW, I don't think he was trying to say we should not work to improve the status quo because it can't be perfect. We can (and should) AIM for perfection, but we will never be able to achieve it until Christ returns. That event is out of our hands and we have to work with what we have now. Concerning Daniel 4:17... this is spoken by Nebuchadnezzar to Daniel as he is relating his dream. I quote from a commentary on Daniel by G. Coleman Luck: All is done "that the living may know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men." Like others in high position, Nebuchadnezzar had ignored the fact that all his prosperity was due to the blessing of the Almighty. He needed to be forcibly reminded that God is sovereign in His control. To demonstrate this, He sometimes "setteth up over it the basest of men" and accomplishes His purposes even through them. It would seem to me that having "the basest of men" over is is not the problem. The problem is "His purposes". Is the purpose chastisement or blessing... or both? The "evil" which has come upon us may be chastisement. By fighting that "evil" (which is what Lee Gonzales promoting) may well yield "blessing". I'm with Lee on this one. - RP Sat, 24 Oct 2009 10:56:51 +0100 http://jbs.org/jbs-news-feed/5535-big-government-or-small-government#comment-2664 "perfection" is not what the JBS or anyone else is genuinely seeking to obtain in America or for that matter any place else in the world. Bringing government down in size is the goal. In America that means confining it to its proper constitutional size and limitations. The Founders did so it is a doable task. Don't use Jesus as an excuse not to do what is achievable. Perfection is not the goal. Doing away with the DHS and the Fed is part of the goal as is getting out of the UN. Those things are within our abiltiy to do. They only require that we follow Robert Welch's plan as laid out clearly in the Blue Book. - Lee Gonzales Sat, 24 Oct 2009 04:50:28 +0100 http://jbs.org/jbs-news-feed/5535-big-government-or-small-government#comment-2658 "that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever He will, and setteth up over it the basest of men". I'd say the word base pretty much describes the quality of our leaders for several decades. The only time that government is going to work perfectly is when it is being run by the Lord Jesus Christ Himself from Jerusalem. - DDW Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:25:39 +0100