Freedom and responsibility aren't interconnected things. They are the same thing.

Democratic politicians want to solve the crisis of poor education by taking more of your money and using it to reduce classroom sizes in the government schools. Republican politicians want to solve the crisis by taking more of your money to provide vouchers to a handful of the poorest students in each area, paying for a part of the tuition expense at private schools. But before long this 'reform' would make those private schools indistinguishable from the government schools ... Vouchers are an excellent way for the government to increase control over private schools.

Government seems to operate on the principle that if even one individual is incapable of using his freedom competently, no one can be allowed to be free.

There was no military reason to drop atomic bombs on Japan. They were used as terrorist weapons - killing innocent people to influence other people.

When paper money systems begin to crack at the seams, the run to gold could be explosive.

So what is government?... Very simply, it is an agency of coercion. Of course, there are other agencies of coercion - such as the Mafia. So to be more precise, government is the agency of coercion that has flags in front of its offices.

It's important to realize that whenever you give power to politicians or bureaucrats, it will be used for what they want, not for what you want.