Put Up a Stop Sign On Big Brother’s Control
Editor: The April 23 Southwest News-Herald story “Oak Lawn Mini-Stop Signs Are Taken Down” tells readers reams about the expansive everyday, detailed U.S. Government involvement in our lives.
The Village of Oak Lawn attached to some stop-sign poles, just below the stop-signs themselves, small signs with pithy sayings to get drivers’ attention so that they stop rather than run the stop sign. But the Federal Highway Administration says the mini-signs must be removed and, then the Illinois Department of Transportation tells the Village that if the mini-signs are not removed, “the federal government would withhold road money for a project on Southwest Highway.”
What lesson could be learned from this?
The federal government never gives “free” money to anyone — whether individuals, corporations, schools or local or state governments — without attaching strings (onerous conditions) to its acceptance. And who is to be thanked for this “free” money?
The federal bureaucrats? The president? No, it is our elected U.S. representatives and senators, our lawmakers, who pass laws authorizing the imposition of “free” money’s onerous condition on its recipients.
Wake up, America! Big government means Big Brother. Change the conduct of the U.S. Congress, where the true power of government resides. Change there, if it occurs, will mean something. Expecting change by electing a new president is relatively meaningless.
— Dennis Dohm
Oak Lawn