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Government’s Impact on Individual Initiative

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    FBN’s David Asman sounds off on the government’s growing impact on our daily lives.

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And finally tonight to pay off just being an American as a pay off that many Americans are actually -- aware of I don't want to sound like -- crap but it didn't used to be that way if they thought about government at all.

Folks used to think more about how they could help society rather than what kind of a -- they could squeeze out a government.

As a result we had generations of people like bill Victor McCall is a father of one of our producers -- just died at the age of 92.

Now bill was it depression -- who didn't look to the government for a handout.

Instead he always wanted to help out he joined the army right before Pearl Harbor and ended up driving up Sherman tank for patton's army through Europe.

When he came back after the war he worked hard but did find time to become a volunteer -- position he gladly filled for over seventy years.

Those were the days when government was much less of a -- in force in our lives Americans realize.

That what we had here was dramatically different from what they had anywhere else in the world.

But as we began moving closer to the kind of stifling cradle to grave government -- they have in Europe.

Individual initiative began paying off laughs and when there's less of a pay offer individual initiative there's less to feel grateful for.

More than that a generation of spoiled Americans we get a cop an attitude that the government all of them everything from health care of food to condoms.

And if they don't get what they want they Begin to scream like spoiled brats.

Of course we still have brave folks who feel it just being an American has -- -- in itself particularly the millions in the military willing to give all for America.

There's no greater -- than that.

But the irony of this situation is that the more the government tries to do for us the -- grateful we are for.

And that makes us less powerful as individuals and as a nation.

America is the land of the individual not of the state.

You only pay off from the state is dependency.

And mediocrity.

And that is the -- thanks for joining us be here tomorrow we're gonna be asking Tea Party patriots co-founder and author mark Bakalar.

-- whole way and -- the Tea Party finally be -- some presidential candidate we'll find out tomorrow.

Follow the money -- Sarah Palin starts.

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