If you believe

the government believes it knows what is best for you (all of us), the road to liberation stretches before you.

Bureaucrats, faceless and otherwise; governments local, state and federal; officials elected and appointed; law makers and enforcers of laws newly made – Some one at some time from at least one of those governments in place or in support … Some one has let you know by statement or look or glance, “I know what is best for you. I am a professional. You are not.”

In a graduate school course in public administration, my wife said, part of the instruction was the belief that the public exists to pay for government. That’s it. Your reason for being is to pay for government. And, instructors said, the first rule of anyone who has a government job is, make your job irreplaceable. The second rule is, expand your job so you can hire helpers who can take more money from the suppliers.