Geez, koan, that's a bit thick. All it needed to be complete was a companion mp3 file with God Bless America <g>
"We are the government" is a great thing to say to ourselves. When > 95% of Americans wrote their Congresspeople about the bailout and were given the finger, that was OUR finger.
When citizens who owned rifles, handguns, and other legal, licensed weapons for the purpose of protecting themselves happened to live on safe, high ground when Katrina came in, and who were minding their own business and posing no threat, they confiscated their own weapons through their own government arm, under threat of violence and death.
I could go on, but why? Unlike some, I believe gov't is necessary. I want the stoplights to work, the police and fire service to be available. However, expanding from the Fed Gov of the 60s to what we have today has resulted in stagnation of wages, pensions are going bust, health care lags the rest of the western world, our prisons are crammed like no place outside of what North Korea?
It wasn't government that produced e.g. the B-17. Boeing, down the street from where I live, would argue about who worked in the factories, who managed them, etc. Gov't paid for them, in the same way that the government buys cars from Ford and GM today, yet does *not* build them.
I applaud your desire to see gov't succeed. I just want a smaller version, and I don't appreciate the fascism we have today. That isn't the people, and saying it's the people won't change reality. Corporations control virtually every aspect of gov't today.
I could prove it with a study, too. Just a fat contribution to secure my own earmark, and I'll show you one way it's done <g> |
