As I just pointed out, Alan Grayson believes that Republicans "just don't want to do it" meaning that they don't want the government to "fix" things like local schools, hospitals, etc. Grayson is playing into this popular Democrat line of Republicans being the "party of no" .. they don't want the government to get involved in anything and they don't have any ideas of their own.

But I see a bigger trend forming, especially with the primary victory of Rand Paul and more libertarians coming into the limelight. Here's an example of what I am talking about. Michael Gerson of the Washington Post writes, "[Rand] Paul and other libertarians are not merely advocates of limited government; they are anti-government."

OK .. let's stop right now. As a libertarian, I can say that that is categorically untrue for the average libertarian. Are there exceptions? Absolutely, just like there are with every party. But libertarians are not anarchists; they do recognize the need for government. Where libertarians depart from Democrats and Republicans is the scope of government and what constitutes a "legitimate purpose." For example, some conservatives in the Republican Party may consider it the role of government to dictate alcohol sales on Sundays. Some liberals in the Democrat Party see government as a legitimate tool to redistribute wealth. Libertarians believe in the limited role of government and the large role of individual freedom. This does not mean they are "anti-government." It just means that government is not the be-all-end-all; it is not there to solve your problems or dictate behavior.

We really love to sing the praises of government, don't we? Well, maybe not you; but most Democrats and not a few Republicans. I guess we could say that we've come by this honestly. This is the completely natural and fully expected result of generations of government education. Come on, folks? What in the world should we have expected? We turn generations of our children over to the government to be educated, and somehow we didn't understand that these government schools would convince these children that government was the answer to all their needs?

I've said it before .. and here we go again. When the history of this country is written - and it looks like it might be written sooner than many of us would like - that history, if it's an honest one, will single out government schools for their role in the destruction of the American identity and the creation of a nation of moochers and government-dependent slugs.

My view of the proper role of government? Well ... let's start the dialogue with this. What would you think of a Constitutional Amendment that reads something like this?

"The congress shall pass no law making any act, or conspiracy to engage in an act, a crime unless that act would deprive another person of life, liberty or property either through force or through fraud."

A start?