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Whom Do You Trust?
By
Gordon Francis Corbett
When Ronald Reagan visited NBC.'s booth at the 1968 Republican Convention,
Chet Huntley was ready for him. He asked, approximately, "Governor, your call
for smaller government sounds like something fitted for a simpler time, when our
country was smaller. How do you answer those who say that we need more
government today?"
Reagan replied, approximately, "Well, there was a politician who told his
people that once, their country was small, and their institutions were small.
They had small industry, small agriculture, and small labor unions. But now, he
said, we are much bigger. Our industry is big, our farmers are big, and our
labor unions are big. Our society is much more complex. And, we need more
government to keep all of these complexities in line.
"The name of that fellow was Benito Mussolini."
Huntley's jaw sagged. He had just had his head handed to him on national
television, and he knew it.
Reagan's argument did not prove that Italy had needed smaller government,
but it did show that former journalist Mussolini had used it to obtain
totalitarian power; and, it implied that then-current journalist Huntley was
using it to help his fellow liberals to do the same thing.
The issue dividing those who want limited government, a gold standard, and
national independence, from those who want big government, fiat currency, and
"One World," is trust.
Our opponents trust politicians so much that they want them to manage their
rights and ours.
We trust no politicians, period. We want to imprison them inside the
Constitution, so that they will only be able to protect our rights. We want the
power to manage our rights left to us, their rightful owners.
Politicians, bureaucrats, or yourself: whom do you trust?
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