Rising prices, recessions, massive debt, political corruption, punitive taxes, explosion of government regulation are all merely effects of a much deeper disease: Liberalism's belief of "providing privileges" instead of "protecting rights"
The wise thinkers of history have always understood that political systems are the products of our conception of truth and justice. Since 1776, we in America have believed that a just political system must be based upon a concept of rights, and government must be enshrined as a protector of those rights. This, as the Declaration of Independence states so eloquently, is the purpose of government.
But unfortunately our modern day rulers in Washington, and the intellectuals who shore them up ideologically, have warped this vision of political philosophy. Government is no longer to be a "protector of rights" to maintain freedom and order. It is now to be a "provider of privileges" to create socio-economic equality.