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many black kids as criminals forever. A recent study showed that blacks are nearly four times as likely as whites to face arrest for pot-related offenses. I know what you’re thinking: black people do and sell more drugs. Not so fast. The study showed that blacks smoke pot at the same rate as their white friends. 2 Fifty-seven percent of those in state prison for drug offenses are black or Latino.
    Undoubtedly the “war on drugs” has caused the number of incarcerated Americans to skyrocket. 3 In 2013, there were 2,220,300 people in federal, state, and local prisons and jails. That’s one in every ten adults! Did you know America has the highest incarceration rate in the world? 4
    Last, the heavy-handed government show of force in the War on Drugs has done a lot to make America look more and more like a police state.
    This is what happens when the government tries to save us from ourselves. I guess we should marvel that it only took them forty years to fail this miserably. Growing up surrounded by drugs and addiction, I didn’t have a political bone in my body. Yet I knew from experience that the government wasn’t going to help me find a better life. I was the person best positioned to solve my own problems.
    The Founders knew this. The Declaration of Independence says we have a right to “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” I’ve always liked that they selected a very accurate word: pursuit.
    No one’s going to serve it to you on a silver platter. But—in America—you can at least chase happiness. This is the essence of self-governance, which means solving problems as close to the individual as possible. When government bureaucrats start making decisions from their mahogany desks in D.C.—far away from the problems that afflict us—their solutions usually make everything worse. And it’s not just Democrats who come up with stupid solutions. (Yes, I’m talking to you, Mr . Compassionate Conservative No Child Left Behind George W. Bush.)
    Tea Party Patriots founder Mark Meckler said, “America was designed to be a self-governing society, where decisions are made as close to home as possible. Things have changed since Jefferson put down his quill. The government has encroached into every area of life, so infiltrating our culture that we endlessly debate the policies our so-called leaders have decided for us.”
    He’s right. I wonder how Jefferson would feel if he were transported into this nation now and picked up a newspaper.
    â€œObamacare?” he might ask. “Why did you let this happen? Have you even read the Constitution?”
    There’s no telling what Jefferson would say about how the IRS isn’t even trying to hide the fact that they targeted, intimidated, and bullied Tea Party, Christian, and pro-Israel groups. The federal government—under President Obama’s “leadership”—effectively undermined ordinary Americans’ ability to speak out on causes they believe in by frightening them about their tax returns and burying them in paperwork during a crucial presidential election. The president hamstrung conservative organizations’ ability to organize and to express their opinions about issues that are pressing in on us today.
    And I’d hate to see Thomas Jefferson’s face when he learned that we have $19 trillion in national debt.
    Here’s what I have learned. Limited government protects liberty best. The Founders created the “checks and balances” system so that the various government branches don’t get so powerful and onerous that they take away our liberty. The federal government isn’t supposed to act in areas that aren’t authorized in the Constitution. But politicians think they’re smarter than our Founders. Checks and balances ? they think. That ’ s so old-fashioned . Consequently, the federal judiciary enthusiastically holds the hand of