{"id":4829,"date":"2021-10-01T20:21:18","date_gmt":"2021-10-02T00:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coldfury.com\/?p=4829"},"modified":"2021-10-01T20:21:20","modified_gmt":"2021-10-02T00:21:20","slug":"the-government-is-not-your-friend-no-matter-what-politicians-tell-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/the-government-is-not-your-friend-no-matter-what-politicians-tell-you\/","title":{"rendered":"“The Government Is Not Your Friend, No Matter What Politicians Tell You”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Any questions<\/a>?<\/p>\n

The dirty little secret about government is that its purpose is not really to make the lives of citizens better but, rather, to accumulate power at the expense of citizens. Not sure about that? Ask yourself, how many government agencies have put themselves out of a job because they succeeded? There\u2019re a few that technology left behind, like the Steamboat Inspection Service; others that served their purpose, like the Defense Homes Corporation; while others were merged into other agencies like the General Land Office, subsumed into the Department of Interior. In our history, there have been\u00a0fewer than 100 federal agencies that have actually been shuttered, and most of those existed in the early 20th\u00a0century to deal with the Depression or the two world wars.<\/p>\n

According to the Federal Register, the federal government has\u00a0457 different agencies. That\u2019s 457 agencies covering virtually every aspect of American\u2019s lives, most of which are staffed by unelected bureaucrats, all of whom spend your money and many of whom write regulations that carry the force of law which the government\u2019s police power enforces. This includes everything from the State Department to the Geographic Names Board to the International Broadcasting Board to the ATF.<\/p>\n

And that 457 is misleading. While it includes a dozen organizations tied to Defense, there are dozens more agencies that come under it that are not listed in the Federal Register such as the DoD Education Activity or the Office of Naval Research. Wikipedia lists a more realistic, but still lacking,\u00a01,500.<\/p>\n

The American government has become a leviathan. It\u2019s everywhere, involved in virtually every aspect of American\u2019s lives, and it\u2019s perpetual, regardless of its record of dismal failure.<\/p>\n

The government spends $30 trillion over half a century and reduces poverty by 1%. The government spends more on education than virtually every nation on the planet yet 85% of the students in its biggest (and most minority-filled) school districts fail basic reading and math, the building blocks for success in our dynamic society. And we\u2019re supposed to believe government works for us?<\/p>\n

American governments spend more money on\u00a0education\u00a0and\u00a0social programs\u00a0than anything else, more than the GDP of most countries. Yet even as they fail, year after year, decade after decade, the funds keep growing, regardless of their catastrophically abysmal track record.<\/p>\n

And that tells you everything you need to know about the nature of governments. Their goal isn\u2019t to solve problems. They\u2019re not here to make life better for citizens. Their goal is not to protect the lives and liberties of citizens. No, government is the Borg. Its\u00a0raison d’etre\u00a0is simple: Grow revenue and increase power for itself and\u00a0unions.<\/p>\n

Proof? Despite the fact that the United States has 3,143 counties in 50 states spread out over 3,796,742\u00a0square\u00a0miles,\u00a0nine of the twenty richest counties\u00a0are in a circle less than 100 miles across with Washington DC at its center. And what is the industry that drives that wealth? Finance? No. Entertainment? No. Steel or autos or high tech? No. One thing: Government power.<\/p>\n

Accumulating power is the fundamental nature of government, and our Founding Fathers understood that which is why they gave us the Bill of Rights and particularly the 9th\u00a0and 10th\u00a0Amendments. For the first 150 years of our nation, those guardrails stood relatively firm, but today they are simply gone.\u00a0Sadly, America has become so detached from our Constitution that 90% of what our government does is unconstitutional.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Oh, I wouldn’t say “detached from our Constitution,” exactly. With at least twenty to thirty percent of the country completely in the dark about what it says and what it means; another fifty percent implacably hostile to everything it represents; and fully one hundred percent<\/em> of the gott-damned goobermint ignoring it—on the rare occasions when they aren’t actively striving to flush it down the toilet altogether—what chance does the poor, dear old thing have, realistically?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Any questions? The dirty little secret about government is that its purpose is not really to make the lives of citizens better but, rather, to accumulate power at the expense of citizens. Not sure about that? Ask yourself, how many government agencies have put themselves…<\/p>\n

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