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| 2013-07-10 |
| by Sarah Hoyt Good government is sort of like unicorns and fairies. We all know what it's supposed to look like, we just have never seen any. That said, though government is something that can go wrong very easily, due to the normal pressures of the human makeup (and even their rouge) there are degrees on how bad a government can get. Arguably, the founders tried to create good government by surrounding it with internal pressures designed to keep it small. What they counted without was semantic wizards capable of turning "interstate commerce" into laws over everything including what type of food you can grow and how much and what kind of cars you can drive. They certainly didn't count on the power to tax meaning that you'd have to submit your possible treatment to a panel of bureaucrats. Or perhaps they knew it, and they thought if they could establish a government that worked for just a little while... Most government is mildly bad -- would that it were indifferent, but that would require the people who get into administration jobs to be sort of like me and believe that telling people what to do is too much work and they'll figure it out, anyway. Most people who do that are, in fact, the type of person who thrives on power and telling you what to do. This is why in our modern fables, greed is the worst sin, but love of power isn't even mentioned, even though most of the time wealth is just a means to power. What this means is that most governments tend to wish to acquire (and mostly succeed) the most power possible over the most people possible. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #2 So, what is good government? I’ve never seen it in my life, since, since long before the sixties (1947 when I was born) government has seized on charity as a good way to get more power to itself “for the children” and “for the poor” and thereby has been destroying civic virtue and that which allows civilization to exist. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2013-07-10 13:39 |
| #1 And say YES SIR when responding to anything. Neat trick "YES SIR, YOU ARE WRONG SIR" (LOUDLY). Remember that one folks, worked for me. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2013-07-10 13:23 |