There has been a lot of buzz lately about civil unions, in this very paper, as a matter of fact. Mostly, I hear complaints from those on the left about how its passing has been a long time coming. The problem is that liberals are thinking about the issue in the wrong way, and it should be a lesson to them. Instead of hoping and advocating that the government is benevolent enough to grant them the right to a civil union, liberals should have realized all along that the government shouldn’t have been involved in marriage in the first place.

To the government, marriage is another tax to be collected from that marriage license. If civil unions are about benefits for spouses, then each employer, not the government, could enter into a contract with whatever couple, gay or straight, it chooses.

This same principle, that government should be small in scope and that it does nothing as efficiently or effectively as the private sector outside of its legitimate responsibilities laid out in the constitution, can be applied to many, if not all other, issues facing society today. This is the whole driving force behind conservatism: free markets and free people, unencumbered by the high, stifling taxes of a socialist society. It’s obvious that the bribing of the taxpayers with their own money is beginning to pay off as an election strategy. I have a hard time recalling anyone who voted for Obama whose reasoning for doing so didn’t include some financial incentive that he promised his or her particular interest group during the campaign season.

A hard time is coming for America. The last election demonstrated that the majority of voters are embracing the ideas of socialism. There’s a video online of a woman who is ranting and raving about how great Obama is because she was able to get a cell phone from the government under his presidency. There is no dignity in taking the scraps of what the political elite leave behind for us. There is no virtue in singling out the successful and charging them with providing for the rest of us under the banner of fairness.  No one would argue that many of the ideas and grand plans that the president peddles are bad as far as everyone being taken care of and being able to go to any college they want. The problem is we live in a world of realities, and the reality is every place that has tried these things before has failed or is in the process of failing.

The founding fathers had greater intentions for the country they created. The founding fathers knew that government couldn’t control things like health care or the economy without controlling people first. If we, as Americans, continue to trade freedom for security and choose handouts over hard work, we will undoubtedly crush the profit motive and with it, the American dream. The problem with this downward course in which we have taken is that eventually Obama will run out of other people’s money to spend.