Government 4
Common Government Errors, Boondoggles and Mischief
So, what about, “government?”
- Just giving something the name, “government” doesn’t make it one.
- Questioning government has been made into yet another “bad thought.”
- Government has no mystical power. Its constituents can, and do, go bad, like constituents of any other group. It has no inherent rights, no being, no existence, outside of our imaginations.
- Government is merely a group of people, charged with administering another fiction, a political unit. This is a key principle.
- The way things are structured, there’s nothing stopping politicians from being buffers for, and enablers of, our exploiters.
- All government is sub-optimum. All should be planned from the start for improvement (not “change”).
- Also key: government is deliberately structured badly, via the pyramidal organizational scheme (refer to this article).
Limited Government
They got it wrong. If they wanted “limited government” when they formed the U.S. constitution, they would have established government to last a set period, be it one, 10, or 20 years, then put in a clause that ended it when that time span was over. Then you’d review, do your assessment, and catalog what to change and what to keep. Perfect the system with a new government that learned from the mistakes of the old.
But that is unacceptable to those who want control. There wouldn’t be “continuity of government.” Continuity of government is essential so that government can continually rob and dominate in an unbroken progression.
It’s easy to see that that the idea of limiting the span of government might fail in the implementation. Unfortunate inertia just makes it too hard to suddenly end government periodically, despite the advantages. But, then, shouldn’t it be first priority to rethink things so it is not hard to do continual revamps of government?
Government relies on yet another ruse; that is, “we the people” thinking, “That’s the best that we can do!” Well, it’s not the best we can do, and we need to accept that it isn’t and stop inhibiting progress. Stop being lazy and complacent.
You can’t create a fully-realized, workable system on the first attempt. So why do we create fixed, immutable, cast-in-stone governments?
There needs to be a plan for trial-and-error and experimentation from the beginning. This was actually part of the idea behind the USA – having multiple states with different laws, under the protective umbrella of immutable rights, of course – but with differences in the execution in the various states, so someone who found a particular state unlivable would have the recourse of moving to another state with somewhat different arrangements.
If the nature of government makes it a focal point or “sweet spot” to take over a country, whether through deception, or simply by getting the “bad guys” voted in, any rational attempts at government must be designed to thwart this potential flaw.
The best attempt we know of, so far, had its roots in the British system, refined by the American system, the form of government based on the ideology known as “republicanism.”
What is a republic? The dictionary explains that it is a nation where the law is embodied in a constitution, or in the people. Self-government.
So, what an utter disappointment that, in some ways, America has turned into one of the most screwed-up nations of all.
It was inspirational, when it was believable and somewhat true, to hear that Americans created, for the first time in recorded history, a new kind of society; a place where the average man, considered to be a serf or peon in Europe, could actually have something of his own – his own property, including the roof over his head, the ability to support a family, and the opportunity put a little something away for tomorrow. Where he didn’t have to answer to some feudal lord and master. For the first time in recorded history!
Preposterous Machinations
The ‘Remedy at the Ballot Box’ Con
This is yet another slap-down that few pick up on. No matter what shenanigans government gets up to, your only input or influence is to wait for the next election because “that is where you make your voice heard.”
Crypto Adoption in Arizona
As has been explained thoroughly and repeatedly, the entire crypto venture is a fraud and a confidence scheme, and anyone in the political realm endorsing or enabling it should be on trial.
Love This BS Excuse
Regarding the failure of yet another thieving, fraud-drenched welfare scheme, we were treated to this: “Oh, that government program didn’t work because the people were supposed to be responsible.”
Well, if you’re yourself responsible, you are supposed to account for the irresponsible actions of the irresponsible, not use them for your excuses.
News Headline
“The government achieved no meaningful change.”
Just the phrasing of this evidence of another egregious zone, a twisted conceptual model. The purpose of government should be to ensure no change. We want a stable system where the rule of law governs! And that is the delineation, the border showing what government should be involved in. It should only be a protector of the foundational elements of society. Ensuring a stable court system, a viable defense system, a reliable record-keeping system (land claims, historical records...), and not much more.
Yet, we are sold fairy stories via a nonsense vocabulary chock full of unwholesome nuggets like “Hope and Change.”
Commie Edicts
It’s idiotic to put government “in charge,” when it empowers lackeys who don’t know anything about business and can’t do anything productive on their own. Take the case of president Hollande in France (serving from May 2012 - May 2017). He ordained the personnel policies for French companies, demanding companies meet “quantitative targets for hiring, training...” and so on. In other words, monkeying around with communist-style edicts in the affairs of private business.
Though wrong in a moral and business sense, pernicious meddling is only to be expected, and a legitimate exploit, since government gave these companies “life,” in the first place. So it’s also clear, the methods of incorporation for companies need revision, resetting them back to the old structuring we've discussed, where they only exist for a limited time, and a specific, designated, constructive purpose, but also protecting them from government meddling into their business affairs, so long as they aren’t causing harm.
If someone could ordain prosperity into being, we wouldn’t need to do any work, would we? Why not just have governments set up all the businesses and cause full employment? If someone, be he president or street sweeper, could wave his magic wand and set the course of the world, why do we need problems, bankruptcies, red ink in business...?
We run into this trait of government time and again, contradicting and defying the natural laws of economics and human nature via hubris, power-madness, and bullying.
It persists without causing an outcry because the practice appeals to fools who insist that we (meaning government) “do something,” (anything) for any problem that rouses them (almost inevitably when it’s something affecting their pocketbook).
A past situation in Panama shows this. In 2014 a price “emergency” was declared by the government, in an excuse to ordain the prices of various food staples like eggs, rice and tuna, and a host of others.
What happened? Well, if you know anything about communist-style edicts, you can anticipate where this is going, and you know it had the immediate effect where grocers stopped stocking a lot of products they used to sell, and started scrambling for the cheapest crap imaginable to put on the shelves and foist on the poor consumer. And they always seemed to be out of staples like eggs...
This seems to satisfy the masses, of course, who think they’re getting a “deal.” So no one complains, except the store owners. And they actually don’t complain that much; they just jack up the prices on everything else, and make more of a killing.
Another thing: this tactic of raising the minimum wage, common fodder for election promises. Such an act doesn’t make people’s work suddenly more valuable, to compensate.
But the need for a higher wage never seems to call into question the screwy financial and economic system and the folly of banks, interest charges, and inflationary policies, when inflation itself is a form of theft. It’s virtually no different, now, from the communist-occupied Soviet “system,” while we seem to think we’re experiencing some sort of triumph of freedom in politics, and capitalism in economics.
Lawfare
Government-enabled lawfare is run amok.
The control and manipulation of the legal system has enabled a game, wherein the banks are confiscating property, in a clever way that is hard to detect, by recalling loans, arbitrarily. Also, we cannot forget the exorbitant fees and interest rates being charged. And, there are the filthy robberies called “bail-ins.”
Then there’s the plot of outright stealing people’s houses.
Incredibly, people who don’t even have mortgages have had their “mortgages” called and houses repossessed just on the word of some bank.
Just one of many problems when you have governments with unfettered power.
Exploited
We automatically fear those things that we find threatening.
That’s why so many recoil at the mention of the possibility of government being corrupt.
Sure, we accept a minor degree of corruption, assigning it to “human nature,” but can’t seem to make the logical leap to the inherent corruption of government.
Even when government crimes (crimes by the lackeys of government, that is), have been proven in court, like CIA drug-running, people hesitate to make the logical leap to the conclusion that if the CIA is corrupt, the rest of government must be also.
No-Limits Government
You never have, and are not likely ever to hear, government or statists say that something – some legalism, rule or regulation – is “outside the scope of government.”
Notice governments never avoid getting involved, come what may, and then, it’s always, “Make it legal,” or “Make it illegal,” in matters where it shouldn’t be sticking its nose at all. Enmeshed in everything, because of a totalitarian meddling instinct.
But in this meddling, government overly relies on one tool: banning. For bugger’s sake, its lackeys have even wanted to ban spinners (the wheel covers that are attached via bearings to the wheel and are free to spin independently, so they’ll continue turning when the car is stopped), and squirt guns!
Regarding spinners being distracting, if you wanted to make a point, you wouldn’t try to ban them, but instead would use a shaming tactic, and commission a bit for TV, mocking guys being hypnotized by spinners. You would show a bunch of slack-jawed dullards fascinated by the spinny motion of the shiny things, and crashing into buildings, knocking fire hydrants over, falling over waterfalls, etc., in their stupor.
A certain mindset just can’t fathom that there might be limits to what government is allowed to do. There’s no point in having government if it can just do whatever it wants. We are damaged by not having a system of limitations and restrictions. Look at how unfettered government is pulling the nasty stunt where, each year, you have available fewer and fewer over-the-counter medications. Pretty soon, they are warning, you’ll need a prescription for vitamins.
In addition to inconvenience, this pushes costs up and availability down.
There’s nowhere government doesn’t meddle, and everything it touches turns foul. If there’s not a daily screw-up, that’s just because it isn’t reported.
In fact, the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) was, in 2015, busted for releasing millions of gallons of toxic waste into the Animas river in Colorado. (Where were the bleeding hearts and climate clowns then, one wonders?)
That’s bad enough, but it was reported by a geologist ahead of time. The geologist said, the previous week, that the EPA would deliberately flood toxins into the water supply, to secure “Superfund” money. The Superfund is a federal government fund for environmental cleanups.
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