Erosion of Liberty

To the Editor:

While we will undoubtedly enjoy our celebration of Independence Day this weekend; however, we should take time to reflect upon how far we have come from that which our founders fought so hard to achieve. They put their lives at stake in order to craft a document declaring for liberty, yet now our country embraces squandering it and creating ever more subservient dependence on our Federal Government.

Never mind that our constitution is a document created to protect liberty; we have fancied adopting a progressive ideology that leads only to bondage of our future generations by our central government; whose only goal is to gain more power and additional control over our individual lives.

Starting with Wilson, it was expanded with FDR, then Johnson, and now Obama wants to take dependence to new heights. It is incredible how in less than a century the welfare state has already created over 55 trillion dollars in unfunded obligation to Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security (meaning we still have to figure out where this money is going to come from; remarkably, there is no plan to pay it off.).

Now liberty has been eroding for some time, but the biggest grab has been as of late. Our current administration and congress insists on taking this boat over the falls with cap and trade legislation and government healthcare. So I implore you to please take a few minutes this 4th, because this is the current highwater mark of liberty and independence; look deeply into your children's or grandchildren's eyes, and know that if we continue down this path, that they will be burdened with the heavy chains of dependence from an enemy not of foreign origin, but one of familiarity, one which we were warned about by our founding fathers.
Keith Anderson
Philipstown