Working for the government is fun, ‘cause if people don’t do what you say, you can fine them or put them in jail

This past week, the federal government “took the first steps to ban trans fats. Why? Because trans fats are bad for you and you can’t be trusted to avoid them on your own.”

You can’t be trusted, because you are not smart enough to know what is good or bad for you. Someone in the government must make the decision for you.

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/363439/father-fed-knows-best-jonah-goldberg#!

How good is the federal government? “The number of civilians (i.e., not counting the military) who work for the executive branch alone is today nearly equal to the entire population of the United States in 1776.” (Same link.)

But we’ve grown since then. We need more people working in the government.

OK. But, the US population in 1776 was 2.5 million. We’ve grown about 120 times that number, so we need more people working … for one branch of the government? For the executive branch, whose job is to administrate?

The idea that government knows best is perfectly proved in the Affordable Health Care Act’s decision concerning your choice of insurance policies. “If you like it, you can keep it” has proved a lie. “The fact that the people who held them liked them, thought they were good, and wanted to keep them doesn’t count for much, because the government knows best.” (Mr. Goldberg’s link.)

“From a conservative perspective, telling people how to run their lives when not absolutely necessary is an abuse of power. For liberals, telling people how to run their lives is one of the really fun perks of working for the government.”

The more you mistrust government, the bigger it becomes

“The idea that the country ought to be run by the people, rather than by the people who know best, lasted somewhere from Andrew Jackson and until shortly after the Civil War. It was buried in an unmarked grave with the political career of Theodore Roosevelt, whose ideas frightened the hell out of both parties.”

“(I)f the political elites woke up tomorrow morning to polling that showed that Congress and the White House were about to be claimed by a new third party committed to closing the border, ending all international agreements, ending Federal control over interstate commerce and shutting down the EPA; there would within short order be a whole bundle of rulings removing the party and its candidates from contention.” The American Deep State.

http://www.sultanknish.blogspot.com/


(National Republicans and Democrats are the same and each party has only one goal – continue running the country. If something threatened both, you could bet the mortgage both would ally to take out the threat.)

At www.maggiesfarm.anotherdotcom.com

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.

Ray Bradbury

From http://reason.com/archives/2012/06/08/ray-bradbury-enemy-of-the-state

“For Bradbury, it was the politicians who ‘have no romance in their hearts or dreams in their heads’ that ultimately kept America earthbound.”

(If a man has no romance or dreams, he is a cipher, a human form stumbling in the dark, entranced by illuminated signs, following directions flash-imprinted.)

Another: “’I think our country is in need of a revolution,’ Bradbury told the L.A. Times. “There is too much government today. We’ve got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people, and for the people.’ He told Time a week later, ‘I don’t believe in government. I hate politics. I’m against it. And I hope that sometimes this fall, we can destroy part of our government, and next year destroy even more of it. The less government, the happier I will be.’”

Bradbury also was “(a) curmudgeonly opponent of the Internet and its products …”

http://www.mindingthecampus.com/forum/2012/06/ray_bradbury_saw_the_pc_lunacy_coming.html

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