Former Reagan aide warns America's freedom slipping away

Chad Groening - OneNewsNow - 4/16/2008 4:00:00 AM

Marc Nuttle, a former Reagan aide and national campaign strategist, says the U.S. is reaching a point where as more people are becoming dependent on the government for their support, the more the government is controlling their lives.

Nuttle -- author of the book "Moment of Truth": How the Government's Addiction to Spending and Power Will Destroy Everything That Makes America Great -- strongly urges all Americans to reject any suggestions from today's politicians, professors, and pundits that individuals can sacrifice their freedoms to government control and still remain free.

According to Nuttle, 35 percent of the population derives its direct economic benefit from the government. That percentage includes teachers, government bureaucrats, and the military, but does not include welfare and retirement recipients. "As ... Baby Boomers start to retire, we're going to be close to 50 percent of the public deriving their economic benefit directly from the government," he warns. "When that happens, then the government is there to manage your life more than it is for you to direct the government to help you to pursue happiness and opportunity as you see fit."

However, Nuttle says he does not advocate the libertarian way of doing things. "Government is like food. It's critical, you need it ...," says Nuttle. "But too much food can cause obesity diabetes, and heart disease and you have to control it, and you have to manage it ...." Nuttle says his new book discusses these very issues.