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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (24342)	7/25/2012 3:06:41 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

You cannot judge "how power greedy, mischievous and dangerous government can be" by the bureaucrats you know. They (we) are no different, as you say. Bureaucrats are not the government. The government is what is established by Congress and managed by presidential appointees. There's where the greed, mischievousness, and danger come from. "Government" is far more pervasive than just the federal politicians. We are subject to world, state, county and city governments as well. Most of us join quasi-government professional associations, and home owner associations. Anywhere and everywhere people gather, linked by geography or other interest, they form rule making governments. On every single square inch of the planet. It's what humans do, and have done forever. Its easy and popular to bash government and find fault; like all human activity it's imperfect. But you also need to balance the thousand of things that government does that are positive, that make our world, with us living one on top of each other, function. Generalizing that government is "power greedy, mischievous and dangerous" is merely looking in the mirror and saying humans are "power greedy, mischievous and dangerous". Which is true. (Many would saying the private sector banking industry is "power greedy, mischievous and dangerous", wouldn't they?)