Much of what you need to know about the changes needed to restore our country can be found in an article by Terrence Moore. He concludes with the following:
The Founding Fathers believed in limited government because they believed in the almost unlimited capacities—God willing—of free, self-governing individuals living under the rule of law. The last hundred years of so-called progressive politics has led us astray by trying to hoodwink us into believing that human beings are less than they are and that government is more than it can ever be. It is time for the true statesmen of this century to re-fit our government into the framework designed by the Founding Fathers and to remind those in that government the truth stated by President Ronald Reagan:
“We are a nation that has a government—not the other way around.”
Subjection in minor affairs does not drive men to resistance, but it crosses them at every turn, till they are led to surrender the exercise of their own free will. The principle objective of good government is to ensure the welfare of people and not to establish a certain order at the heart of their misery–de Tocqueville
We find that as government does more for the citizen, incompetence grows equally in that equation. Not a good business model.