Let’s say a big storm comes into town and a tornado sweeps away a whole block of houses. People will rebuild because, we hope, they have insurance to do so. Some insurance policies have loopholes that cover wind damage but not flood damage. Some of policies will have large deductibles. But even if the whole house is lost, usually it will be rebuilt even if not all the costs of the rebuild are covered. Also, people have jobs and a way to begin again by slowly paying off the costs of a catastrophe over time. That’s often true even without insurance.
Bad governance is worse than a tornado. Why? Because all the strengths that a person would bring to build up their life are diminished by taxes, regulations, and policies that undermine an individual’s chance to get ahead during life’s many challenges. The economy itself is harmed by overgrowth of government which takes money out of the economy and uses it for political influence. We have seen that government charges seem to multiply and never end.
A person’s life and their ability to work is finite. Government these days is a constant attack on people’s vitality. It’s not like a tornado that shows up and wrecks things all of a sudden. Instead, it’s a constant drain. What are we getting for those government taxes? I see a government that refuses to account for its spending, refuses to stop spending when the treasury comes up empty…so spending nonexistent money into deficit, a government that is taking tax money and passing it around to NGO’s as a way of defrauding Americans, a well published group of government fraudsters parading their frauds in an unstopping brag of what evil they can do and never be stopped by the common man.
Just look at how things have gone since 2008. The government subsidized failing banks after real estate derivatives caused insolvency. That cash write-off was supposed to save the economy. But prosperity has never returned. A small group benefitted from the 2008 Great Recession. But the new policies that saved the banking sector led to an interruption in the rule of law for bad bankers. That failure of law has proceeded and worsened since then. Derivatives themselves were experimental and even though they have multiplied everyone’s problems, they have widened consequences which has seemed beneficial to the smaller number of people that should have been harmed by the derivatives losses. In any case, derivatives probably are illegal under the Constitution because they lead to money creation. We should stop derivatives trading.
Rule of law fails continue. More negative consequence results from that. Now lawfare in the courts seeks to interrupt any kind of repair to malgovernance. People in government positions continue making one bad decision after another. How do we salvage a mismanaged economy that continues to be mismanaged? Why is the government trying to manage the economy at all? Markets are supposed to do that. What happened to those? Those went away when the government started interfering by promoting some interests over others.
Human beings have never been perfect. We sometimes want to do crazy things. We sometimes want other people to do crazy things with us. Because of that, we need limited government where the government can’t mandate a bunch of crazy. When the nation started, there was a national dedication to limited government power. That was a better way. Limited governance power can get more accomplished along a safer and wiser course than unlimited power which under fascism leads to more bickering and more malinvestements that destroy resources and diminish our national strength.
Public private partnership is a kind of fascism. It is powerful people in positions of power over the less powerful. Rule of law governance is law applied equally to all. Under fascism, powerful people seek to be above the law. This is wrong. Or the law can weaponized to attack political competitors…lawfare. We should stop our fascism. End the partnership between government and corporations. Public private partnerships should end. Government should not decide economic winners and losers.
We need a return to representative voting where real votes aren’t manipulated through digital means. We should return to paper ballots and manual ballot processing. President Trump has signed an executive order to do this, but I’m seeing little change. Electronic voting persists despite its clear threat and past damage to legitimate voting.
We need to repeal bad laws. We need to avoid new laws being written by AI. The flood of bad laws we’ve been experiencing with thousand page legislation bills signed into law by a body of Congress that doesn’t read what it signs should end. Ridiculous legislation should end and we should return to necessary and proper standards.
The idea that government can do anything and the only road to prosperity is through government partnership, government programs, government interference in everyone’s life isn’t working out for America. We should end this overreach.
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