It reflects a perspective that dovetails with the biblical view of the role of government in our lives. Government has as its God-ordained role to restrain people from harming one another, restraining evil and promoting justice. Do the same thing with the relevant figures that reflect progress in education, health care, safety, income or deaths per 100 million vehicle miles traveled on the nation's highways. In every case, he insists, the greatest improvement occurred before the government got involved with some program. He believes, for example, that if you freed health care from all regulation, costs would go down, not up.
Freedom goes hand in hand with responsibility.
End welfare, he argues, and people on their own will find ways to help the poor. A lost sense of community would be restored and revitalized. He offers compelling evidence that bureaucratic government tends to make life more difficult for its citizens. One cannot ignore his criticisms of big bureaucracies and the loss of freedom and responsibility. A Personal Interpretation .