How do you define massive government failure? If you are someone who is unable or who refuses to help themselves you would define it as a government that doesn’t give you what you want. If you were a person who believed in the American experiment, who values the constitution, who understands the constitution you would define it as the government overstepping its bounds or not representing its constituents.
We are currently experiencing a massive government failure. Our government is seeking to misrepresent the people whom it serves and it is greatly overstepping the boundaries our forefathers put in place.
The government is overstepping its boundaries in several key areas:
1. Economic legislation
2. Blurring the definition of the role of government
3. Circumventing the system of checks and balances
4. Misrepresentation
Economic Legislation
Our economic system is based upon free market principles and it has thrived because government has stayed out of its way. Capitalism works. Michael Moore can make as many asinine movies as he wants about the evils of capitalism but the truth is that capitalism has given us the standard of living we experience today and it has given us many of the freedoms we experience today. Capitalism is a just economic system. It doesn’t bother itself with bribes, intrusion or special interests. Capitalism only bothers itself with supply, demand and competition. It can be demonstrated time and time again that excess comes into play in places where the government has intruded and circumvented the capitalist system. Every time government injects money or restricts money through legislation the free market has to compensate somehow. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is a wonderful example of an intrusion that has created injustice where the free market system would have otherwise been just. In a free market economy, people who had no business buying homes would never have been able to buy homes. This is perfectly just and fair. They could have waited to buy homes, our constitution never says owning a home is a right. Why is this? A right that is perpetuated that is NOT an inalienable right will become an injustice to someone. Because of government intrusion into a private market the entire free market system was circumvented. The free market was forced to loan money to people who could not pay it back. Due to demand being over-inflated home prices inflated and then when what was going out didn’t equal what was going in and everything crashed. Now those who were responsible are penalized by a faltering economy. Those who were irresponsible are “bailed out” and the system is worse off than before. Any fool can see why this happened if they bother to look. President Clinton ushered in legislation that forced lenders to lend to people who were incapable of owning a home. This legislation was an affront to the Bill of Rights. Barney Frank and Chris Dodd played a large part in irresponsibly managing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. These are the facts and many people don’t realize that the government is currently trying to perpetuate and resurrect this unjust, irresponsible market intrusion. This is an example of economic legislation that feeds massive government failure.
Blurring the Definition of the role of Government
Our government is not supposed to own businesses. This is a tenant of fascism. If a government owns or has a large decision making position in business it will ultimately lead to corruption in that business or cronyism. This is common sense. The government will eventually seek to make its business more powerful or more profitable, or the individuals who are in the private areas of that business will learn that they can manipulate government with their position. We see this every day in Washington DC with lobbyists. A wonderful example is that of ADM (Archer Daniel’s Midland) who has been able to get their corn syrup into practically all of our food stuffs. They have done this through lobbying congress to place stiff tariffs on sugar imports and coercing the FDA to deal in a lax manner on the harmful effects of their corn syrup. The corn growers lobby is huge and this is all perpetuated under the guise of “helping our farmers” but as you can see from our enormous obesity rate its decreased the quality of our food network and hurt our nation by forcing us to receive an inferior product to benefit a select group of people and a private business.
Lobbying is the more tame part of the equation though. The real damage is done by the recent actions our government has taken in acquiring GM. This is a massive blurring in the definition of government. Our government now owns a major manufacturing network. This is an infringement upon the free automotive market, it is a massive labor union power grab, and honestly if you look at the path to oppression, the government now has an entire manufacturing system with which it could produce its own weapons of war with. If the government were to become oppressive it would need to have its own army that answers to it and it would need to make its own weapons (because no private contractor would serve it). The government now has half of that equation.
The worst blurring of the role of government would be in the realm of healthcare. The nation is in an uproar because the government, an entity which has proven it’s inempt, irresponsible and corrupt, wants to control the nations well-being. This is a horrible intrusion into the public sector. Government should never have a say in our well-being and our constitution does not guarantee our well-being, nor should it. Our Bill of Rights guarantees us life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. A government run healthcare system would necessarily remove liberty in making healthcare choices, it could possibly remove life for the elderly or for those with terminal illnesses because their financial burden would be too large of a cost and it would certainly remove the pursuit of happiness. There is no guarantee that we won’t be sick in the constitution and honestly there is no way to enforce that guarantee. Anyone who says they can accomplish this would be a liar.
Circumventing the system of checks and balances
Our executive branch is currently circumventing our governments system of checks and balances. With the creation of over 30 “czar” positions the executive branch has made it possible to usher in people into positions of power who have not been vetted and who do not represent the people of the United States of America. These people do not serve you, they only serve the executive branch. This is a horrible affront to our constitution and our way of life. Van Jones resignation was a small victory in the battle against this new corruption of our government. The mainstream media who is not doing its job of whistleblowing didn’t tell the public about Van Jones. They didn’t show that he had radical views that were extremely biased towards one group of people. They didn’t show that he had an idealistic agenda. They also didn’t show how he was put in charge of billions of dollars which weren’t being audited and they didn’t show that he was filtering them into campaign and agenda based lobbyist groups to further achieve has idealistic goals. The sad truth is that we have over 30 more czars to terminate.
The federal reserve is also another entity that circumvents our checks and balances. The Fed answers to no private citizen or government entity. It can print paper that it calls money and you are forced to bear the responsibility for it. Most people don’ t have a clue how the Fed works and most don’t know what it is, but if they could understand it they would immediately see the evil that it produces upon the world. The economic destruction caused by playing with “fake money” is almost inconceivable. It could be said that the Fed has caused wars with its money printing measures. The Fed needs to be audited because there is no system of checks and balances in place to make it accountable to the American people. If you want an example of this look at the latest news. Ben Bernanke was reinstated as the Fed Chairman. Absolutely no auditing measures are in place to see if he has wisely controlled our money system but our executive branch can tell us that he has done a good job. Has Chairman Bernanke done a good job? Considering our national debt has tripled, our unemployment is in double digits our debt continues to become a large part of our GDP and we are no longer the most competitive nation in the world (Switzerland is), and the UN wants to create another world currency besides our dollar…. I’ll let you make the decision if Bernanke is doing a good job or not. His Federal Reserve plays a major role in all the preceding issues.
Misrepresentation
The uproar over public-option healthcare should make it quite clear to congressman that the people are not in favor of this government intrusion into their lives, liberty and pursuit of happiness, yet we see that the executive branch and the leaders of congress say they are going to use their sway and majority and pass it anyway. What is the legislative branch for if it doesn’t represent the people! What a bunch of miserable failures they are. They sit in their fancy building every day with healthcare that has 10x more options than most Americans. They can vote their own pay raises and they have a pension that serves them for life on the backs of the taxpayers. These people have become twisted and corrupt and need to be removed because they have forgotten their primary role; to represent the people. If they are voting against the desires of the majority of their constituents than who are they representing?
The conclusion
When government becomes oppressive to the people or it misrepresents the people it has failed and that is what we are witnessing. Government could stop our recession. Government could loosen our bonds and make us economically sound again but it will not do it. Our government serves special interests and ideologues instead of the majority of the American people. If the government were to cut the corporate income tax in half there would be an immediate surge in the stock market and in private investment and growth. If the government would enact tort reform doctors would not have to pay ridiculous malpractice insurance rates and the cost saving would trickle down to the consumer. If the government would stop perpetuating illegal immigration that burden would be removed from our healthcare system and our education system. If the government would remove itself from our lives we could have happiness, we could have life and we could have liberty. Some of you are crying out when you read these words what about the little guy? Here is the truth of the matter…. giving people handouts does not produce responsibility. If you have a calling to help those people, do it! By all means help them. I think it is all our individual responsibility to help people. It is not the governments responsibility to help them though. The government doesn’t have the moral capacity to help people. If you doubt this an need a real world example think back on the Katrina disaster. A whole city that had a history of having government handouts were sitting on their collective rear end waiting for the government to come save them. A young man commandeered a bus that the government should have been using itself and he got several people out of there before the levees broke. The government tried to penalize him for those actions afterwards. This is a wonderful real world example of what handouts from the government produce. They produce more irresponsible behavior from those who participate in them. If the government would quit taxing and legislating us into oblivion maybe two things would happen. We would have enough income to be able to share it with others. Those who were irresponsible would have to become responsible or they would die. And if we, with our new freedom and could more adequately help those on a personal basis that we saw falling through the cracks.
Friends we are witnessing a massive government failure. Its time to start realizing this and start doing something about it. Our founding fathers never want our nation to become this and the only way out of this isn’t with increased government. The way out of this is with lessened government and a return to the individual spirit that founded this nation.
