“That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.” — Thomas Jefferson

“Government, even in the best state, is but a necessary evil, in its worst state, an intolerable one.” — Thomas Jefferson

The situation this nation is in today is nobody’s fault but our own. Benghazi, Fast and Furious, gun control, IRS, seizing reporters’ phone records … and the list goes on. We can’t blame any one party or person for any of these. We did it to ourselves, and it didn’t happen overnight.

In the government’s attempt to be everything to everybody, it has become a welfare state. The government will take care of us. The liberals can call it what they want, but it is pure and simple socialism.

People do not want to take personal responsibility for their actions.

The president seems to spend more time on vacation (on the public’s dime) than he does doing the job voters elected him to do. And it is so easy for him to keep blaming his problems on earlier presidents, for mistakes that only he can take credit for.

There is no sense of right and wrong. If it feels good, do it.

One morning soon, people will wake up and find that they have lost most of the liberties this country was founded on. And people will complain that things aren’t right.

Nothing is going to change until the people of this country wake up, and take back what is theirs.

Alan Elze, Auburn