Next Article in the Series, If the national government is the answer, it must have been a really stupid question.
As we watch the stumbling and bumbling of the Republican Leadership in Congress all around Washington, DC, President Trump continues to move forward where he can. All at the same time he’s pointing out how truly ineffective, inefficient and frankly, inept, the whole of the national government is today. I applaud his pointing out that “Draining The Swamp” may be speaking too kindly of the “DC machine”, and it may actually require “Draining the Cesspool” or “Draining the Sewer” for We The People to start regaining control of our self-governance.
I really don’t like to be “anti-government”, but I am 100% “pro competence”, and those two positions are proving to be more so mutually exclusive, where the national government is concerned, every day. Especially when and where the national government is involved. I ask you, “Can you tell me one single thing that the national government operates or regulates competently?” I think that We The People, the US Citizens, need to start asking and answering this question with a new level of seriousness. And when you do, I don’t think you’ll like the answer.
Why? Because WE are the ones who are paying for this ever expanding mountain of GROSS incompetence. And you are paying these costs at an inflated level that reflects the costs of incompetence involved, at times at an exponentially expanding rate. We must start to recognize that everything “Golden” about the Great American Experiment, that the national government touches, turns to lead. We all need to remember the quest of great magicians and alchemists throughout history were to “turn lead in to gold”?
Well, we are now seeing the “magical’ ability of the national government to do the exact opposite. And I have no question the Founders knew this could or, if unchecked, would happen. And it was why the Constitution was written with the national government having very limited and specific, enumerated, powers. I just don’t think they ever fathomed that We The People would become so successful that it would allow US to become so inattentive and ignorant to what their great invention was doing TO US.
I would like to share something a friend who serves at a high level in our State Government shared with me a while back. At the time, he had been a State Elected Official for about 5-6 years. He told me, “I’ve been able to establish two absolutes in how government operates at this point, 1) Government doesn’t do anything well. And 2) What government does best, it does very poorly.” I believe he absolutely nailed it. And I believe the national government fits his two absolutes TIMES 50!
Think about any of the great institutions and industries in US history, all of which started as local and/or private entities, and it must be recognized that the beginning of the downfall and destruction of any of these is when they became either successful enough, or productive enough, that the national government decided to get involved. Whether through regulation or taxation, once the incompetence of the national government intrudes, the institution or industry begins to degrade. EVERY TIME!
And it always starts with “safety”, or “fairness”, or “equality” or my favorite, “for the greater good”. And it always ends with graft, corruption, incompetence and destruction. From the biggest to the smallest, from the simplest to the most complex, if you want to kill or greatly degrade ANY great institution or industry, just bring on the national government incompetence and you can “fundamentally transform” the greatest things into useless or inefficient, and then destructive clutter. It is time we start to think about, and not just accept what national government incompetence is doing TO US. And the whole “healthcare” discussion is just the tip of the proverbial iceberg.
God Bless America! And America, Bless God Again!
