What Does The Government Do For You?

CHUQ

This is a post on one of my blogs.

The beginning of political wisdom is the realization that despite everything you’ve always been taught, the government is not really on your side; indeed, it is out to get you.

Sometimes government functionaries and their private-sector supporters want simply to bully you, to dictate what you must do and what you must not do, regardless of whether anybody benefits from your compliance with these senseless, malicious directives. The drug laws are the best current example, among many others, of the government as bully. Our rulers presently enforce a host of laws that combine the worst aspects of puritanical priggishness and the invasive, pseudo-scientific, therapeutic state. They tolerate our pursuit of happiness only so long as we pursue it exclusively in officially approved ways: gin, yes; weed, no.

Notwithstanding the great delight that our rulers take in tormenting us with their absurdly inconsistent nanny-state commands, they generally have bigger fish to fry. Above all, the government and its special-interest backers want to take our money. If these people ran a store, they might aptly call it Robberies R Us. Their credo is simple and brazen: “you have money, and we want it.”

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Kizzume · Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2007 5:24 am Post subject:

There is a lot of waste in the government. We're paying up the yin-yang for programs that are redundant and others that are ridiculously unnecessary.

It's easy to pass a bunch of small bills that seem harmless. It's hard to pass the important few that can really make people's lives better. We're sure paying for it.
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CHUQ · Posted: Fri Dec 28, 2007 3:57 am Post subject:

But yet, the American voter keeps returning the same types to Washington. Then they bitch when nothing gets done.
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Tumbleweed · Black Ops Joined: 02 Jul 2007 Posts: 3687 votes: 3

I sent 2 Republicans, Snowe and Collins to Washington so I'm happy about my choice. I didn't vote for Bush.

I also voted for 2 Democrats in the House, but I have reservations about sending one of them back. All in all, I wouldn't change my vote on who I helped send there.