Are we a nation with a government...

...or a government with a nation?

Mark Steyn observes:

//As it turns out, the government has now closed 1,100 square miles of water in Florida Bay.

In his first inaugural, Reagan famously said that “we are a nation that has a government, not the other way around.” When the government feels free to Barrycade off large chunks of the nation — from the mountains to the prairies to the oceans white with foam — it’s telling you: it’s the other way around.//