Loss in Faith of American Government
Because several of the programs it sets into place to correct problems have in-turn generated new problems, many Americans have been losing or totally lost faith in the U. S. Government. Equal rights laws has a long history on the correction trail. In the 1860s, the first Republican President, thru Congress, declared slavery illegal. Even though the civil war enforced this act into law, the minorities still did not have equal rights. In the 1960s, the minorities took a stand and finally received their inalienable rights so long due them. Congress then enacted new laws to assure their equality thru the use of quotas. Today, these same quotas are causing reverse discrimination and increasing race hate to a higher level than just a decade past, causing a loss of faith in the U. S. Government’s better judgment.

The Great Depression in itself caused its own prevention program, and it also became the inspiration for many new laws and programs. The U. S. Government has inserted many controls into the free market to try and prevent the chance of another depression.

Today, those “free market” controls are a root cause to the inflation rate, inflated prices, prices fixed over fair market value, and monopolistic control over a few areas of the economy. This causes the American people to loose faith because they can see from their pocket books and living conditions that the U. S. Government is not in touch with their needs.

In the wake of the Great Depression, four major programs came forth; women’s suffrage-equal rights for women, welfare programs-to help the poor in hard times, Medicare-to help the elderly and/or poor to get medical services, and Social Security-to allow people to retire without fear of poverty. Today we have new problems from these programs; N.O.W. (National organization for Women), welfare dead beats that are paid at least twice as much not to work as they would be to work, Medicare heading towards bankruptcy by 2020, and Social Security expecting bankruptcy by 2031. Each Congressional act may have been started upon a noble cause, but greed and corruption have ruined these programs and the people’s faith in the honesty of their government.

In the early 1940s, to fund the war effort the U. S. Government institutionalized our income tax system. The income tax was only to last till the end of the war, and it was only a half cent on every dollar earned.

After President Clinton instituted the largest tax increase in history during the first year of his presidency, some Americans pay as much as fifty cents out of every dollar earned to the Government. This shows to the American people that the U. S. Government has grown too large there by disenchanting people’s faith in our government.

Then in the 1950s, a liberal movement swept the nation into believing government had all the right answers, but as the above examples show, some of these answers can produce new problems or perpetuate the old ones. This liberal agenda dovetailed into the environmental movement of the 1970s. While the start of these EPA programs improved the living conditions in both rural and urban settings, it has now grown into a behemoth treading on land owners rights and raising the cost of every day items to far above fair market values.

Then in 1994, a new movement has been begun by a new group of politicians that are in touch with America’s needs; smaller government, personal responsibility and accountability, and allowing Americans to keep more of the money that they earn. We again had a chance to find the American Dream, but this was dashed by the dirty politics that the Clinton administration was so famous for.

Finally with the second gulf war to protect America’s self interests abroad and fight the many roots of the terrorist threats to the U.S. New movements are springing up just to fight America’s right to defend herself. Once again the few true hearted Americans have to see thru the good and the bad and decide what is really in all of America’s best interest and fight for that with out regard to personal honor, fortunes, or even their own lives. It is time for the heroic spirit of our Forefathers to come forth and fight back tyranny and oppression.