How Far Have We Gone?

To see how much work we have to do read what Isabel Paterson writes (in 1943) about our government programs: "Proposals to 'abolish poverty,' or to guarantee 'freedom from want' or 'freedom from fear' are a mere confusion of terms.  Fear and want are subjective; and poverty is the absence of wealth...The only condition in which no one can experience poverty, want, or fear, is that of rigor mortis.  The dead neither want nor fear." (The God Of The Machine, Isabel Paterson; Transaction Publishers, 2009; pp 219, 220.)
So our Federal Government for decades now has been trying to instill rigor mortis in our society.  BO is the ultimate expression of that attempt.  We need to get rid of the ruling class, the chronic/career politician.  The chronic/career politician is always looking for work to do and so attempts things and passes laws/regulations that create rigor mortis in a society.
Real people have work to do other than politics and to them politics is a necessary evil.  That is why our founding fathers said that government is a necessary evil.  The only reason we need a government is that men/people are not angels.  So the sole task of government is to our protection from evil governments and evil people.  Those are the only laws needed from our government.  The rest of the work the political/ruling class does just creates heavy burdens for the real workers who are trying to make a profit/living.  Government regulation destroys profitability.  Some regulation is necessary, a necesary evil, a "tax" we need to pay in order to live in a society, but most of those regulations are simply attempts by the ruling class, which includes all beaucrats, to find work to do, to find a reason for their position, their class.
We need to shrink government to such an extent that all legislatures including Congress and even the executive and judicial are part-time where the "country class", (anyone outside the DC beltway) do whatever is necessary to protect us and then go home to their real jobs where they actually earn the income.  Politics should never be a livelihood; it should be a service.  Our founding fathers sacrificed to serve their country.  They did not earn a living doing this.  In fact, they suffered, giving their finances, lives, property, and reputation to do it.
That is scary!  How many of us are willing to sacrifice so that our country can survive and grow?  The only group I can think of at this time that is doing that is our beloved military.  How many of us are AS willing to sacrifice as our military personnel have been?
We have had it pretty nice, haven't we?