I think of government as a kind of necessary inconvenience, like referees on a ball field or trips to the dentist. Governance and checkups are required, but only at a minimum.
Democrats in DC keep expanding government with hopes to eliminate what they consider to be unfairness. Nice thought, but trillions of dollars and 50 years of social engineering has led to more people demanding fish than folks willing to learn to fish. And years ago the bureaucrats ran out of other people’s money to redistribute.
The heaping pile of recent financial, health care, tax, education, welfare, environmental and other regulations is suffocating the tax base. Worse, the anti-business climate in DC creates dark clouds of uncertainty for those who would create jobs.
Government is inherently inefficient because it operates outside the natural rules of economics – living within your means, survival of the fittest, measure and reward results, colorblind. Government workers have no edge on virtue, as can be seen by the recent news of porn at the Pentagon, record low ratings of Congress and partying while oil gushed into the Gulf.
Maybe the big-brother nanny state is an unavoidable step in our evolution from bondage to liberty, to abundance, to apathy, and back to bondage. If only the Dems would quit stomping on the accelerator.
The American economy is as messy as it is exceptional. If you can’t embrace it, at least do no harm to those who do.
Don’t let the surging tide of government destroy our kids’ opportunity to build sandcastles of their own.
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