Volume 4, Issue 26
Ever since the votes were announced, government leaders have whined and protested expressing selfish, detached concern about what would happen to governments. To this day, not one leader anywhere in the world has asked the simple question-- what do the people need? And of course freedom is never considered relevant. Most of the editorial analysis rendered has centered on emotional issues like immigration, economic sluggishness, national security, cultural identity, and a desire to be restored to a past of greater glory and happier times. These issues are on the surface, but tangential, not foundational. What is important that has brought the rebellion to a point of boil is that many families do not have the ability to support themselves and maintain their generational identity.
A demonstrative example is the story of a Welsh fisherman. He is the third generation to lead a family-owned fishing business. For 100 years, his family has provided fresh fish to the English markets. Because of European Union regulations and laws, he is now told how many fish he can catch and what he can charge for them. This restriction has nothing to do with protecting the fish population. It’s all about protecting the Spanish and Portuguese fishing industry. Instead of a free market allowing him to produce a catch that the market demands, at a price the market is willing to pay, he is stifled in his business, and therefore in his ability to provide for his family. He is not rewarded for his hard work or efficiency. He is bound by the blending of the culture and work ethic of other fisherman in different markets responding to different demands. In addition to the restrictions on his business, his costs go up due to onerous regulations, and his taxes increase to fund the deficit spending of an aggregate socialistic system. In other words, the government is prohibiting him from staying in business to support his own family. The government would rather he go on welfare and increase its own costs than allow the free market to determine what fish and how many the people of England and the EU want to eat.
And for what purpose? To make everyone equal inside the EU for a standard of living as perceived by the government elites.
The hysteria of government leaders writhing in agony about how governments will survive, instead of being concerned about serving the people’s needs to determine their own destiny, is the essence of this government/society relational problem and conundrum.
There was one signal prior to the vote that lent itself to the forecast of the vote’s outcome. Both the leader of the Conservative Party, the Prime Minister, and the Labour Party, the opposition, were out front together leading the recommendation to stay in the EU. There has not been a time in recent history when the Conservative leader and the Labour leader agreed on what they portrayed as an economic issue. When 50% of the public continued to respond in public opinion polls that they were still concerned about the course their country was taking, the question became – were they as angry about lack of leadership in the U.K. as American citizens are about the lack of leadership in the United States?
The answer was yes.
The problem that now exacerbates the uncertainty is that there is no global leadership. This vacuum includes institutional or personal leadership. The truth is that the world is now being run by federal reserves and central banks. Their agenda appears to be to support government systems that are unsustainable. A leader must emerge to provide a course of action based upon the needs of the people and the foundational elements of freedom.
That entity should be the United States of America.
Yet to date, no spokesperson has come forward to propose a restructuring of the economic order of the world, to include a reset of America, to establish the proper relationship between governments and their citizens. The founding principle upon which all government structure should be built is that God is sovereign over man, and man is sovereign over government. Man is here to obey God’s laws, and governments are constituted for the purpose of facilitating individuals and families in their pursuit of happiness. Governments, at their core, should be designed to serve man so that, through a moral world, honorable prosperity may be achieved.
Leaders of the United States should seize the opportunity to partner with Great Britain to provide new structure for government services. As nation states, they should deregulate to reduce the cost of business, restructure government to make government services more efficacious, and balance the government budget to get debt under control to relieve pressure on rising interest rates. Further, they should establish a protocol to allow interest rates to rise to a new normal level of equilibrium to stabilize the bond markets. They should cut the corporate tax rate to attract offshore capital back inside their sovereign boundaries. And the most important thing they should do is emphasize the importance of small and family-owned businesses as a critical element of the economic model. These things would accomplish the following: an increase in capital investment, an expansion of manufacturing and services corporations, and the creation of new and stable jobs.
Combining the world’s largest economy with the world’s fifth largest economy, on the basis of such reform, would lead not only the United States and Great Britain to prosperity, but the rest of the world. The EU would then follow suit if for no other reason than to remain marginally competitive.
Brexit provides the United States with the opportunity to reclaim its destiny in history by leading the world with principles that cherish the freedom of man and his God-given inalienable rights to pursue happiness.
It’s not about government – it’s about freedom.
My name is Marc Nuttle and this is what I believe.
What do you believe?