Don’t Trust the Government
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I can’t help but notice that, in America, nobody trusts the government when their party is out of office – but the same people who were so critical of the opposition party government will stand in line and give 100% support to the government if their party manages to take power.
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I don’t get it. The government is the government, no matter who is in power. Its ridiculous in America because both parties essentially behave exactly the same way. They both spend a ton of money that they don’t have and they both pass a bunch of laws telling citizens what they can and can’t do. The differences between the Republicans and Democrats are superficial at best. Sure they’ve got their pet issues that they bring up whenever an election season is looming. You’ve heard them all before: pro-life vs. pro-choice, gun rights vs. gun control, gay rights, etc. etc. But does anything ever change? Not really. The tide may turn slightly one direction or the other, but essentially these jokers are playing a game.
What politicians want, plain and simple, is power. I don’t care if the politician in question is (R), (D), (I), (L) or (G), they want power and influence; and they’ll usually say just about anything to get it.
Power corrupts. Our founding fathers understood this and they wisely devised a system that separated the power in government between the three main branches – the executive, the legislative, and the judicial branches. It is a system of checks and balances designed so that one branch of government can’t run rough-shod over the others. Lately though it seems like “we the people” have allowed the executive branch of government to get too powerful. When’s the last time Congress actually “declared war” before we sent troops into battle? The Vietnam War wasn’t technically a war – it was a “police action.” Well that’s a pretty damn big police action if you ask me. No war has been declared against Iraq or Afghanistan, and we have hundreds of thousands of troops over there, in harms way, sent under an executive order from the President.
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That happened under a Republican administration. Now the Democrats are in charge – has anything changed? Have the Democrats, who screamed “foul!” when they felt George W. Bush was over-stepping his bounds as President, done anything to keep Barack H. Obama’s power in check. You bet they didn’t – because now they have the power.
I wouldn’t trust a single one of these jokers as far as I could throw them, and I get a little sick to my stomach when I see Americans who decry one party as corrupt, vicious, and downright evil; while giving the other party their whole-hearted support.
They are all corrupt! They are all power-hungry and they need to be checked. We need to be constantly vigilant, constantly suspicious of the motives and actions of government. It is our duty and obligation as American citizens to hold a healthy contempt for government. Our founding fathers would have expected that of us, for they held the same beliefs.
Wake up Americans – government is not the answer, government is the problem!
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Same thing in Canada – everyone promises to spend more and cut taxes, and then they get into office and realize that this is mathematically impossible. Honesty would be good. But honesty is political suicide.
Louis, I’m afraid, “We The People” never vote for reality but for fantasy as Karen Gross points out. Any time %5 of a population owns %90 of the wealth which is the situation in the United States the %90 are going to get screwed. The problem is not the government but the the American voter who constantly votes against its own interest. Most Americans are not a part of that %5 AND NEVER WILL BE but many vote as if they are.
A strong “public option” in healthcare is the only way to lower healthcare insurance for %90 of Americans. This has nothing to do with politics. This is Economics 101.
People get the government they deserve. Let’s hope we get this right this time. Many times we do. Often we don’t.
We get the politicans we deserve.
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Guy that phenomenon baffles me! Why are there so many apologists for the uber-wealthy who are themselves poor? This is something that has been puzzling me for a long time. Like you say, they vote against their own interests based on a principle the rich expouse that ends up screwing them! Ugh.
In a democracy it is hard to get the truth because it could cost you votes. So what do politicians d- tell you what you want to hear and assuage you with words. This is why I am never concerned with parties but the characterr and integrity of people.
Health care what a crock this is Socialism may be a little less socialism by a Republican bill but it is grab power and rights of our people.
Simply they all need to be thrown out and take their stupid never worked socialism to Nicaragua or Cuba. Honduras exiled their communist leader. Honduras beside what the instruments of propaganda MSM says was not a coup de etat they where merely standing up for the usurpation of their constitution. This is what us in the military and veterans as I am swore under oath to do.
Did you ever wonder why Obama is kissing up to the dictators there?? Their isn’t much difference just happens he got elected over another socialist Republican McCain.
I tend to agree Danny – at least in part with what you’re saying. My personal opinion is that the Federal Government has just grown far too large and powerful and that we need to get back to the wording of the Constitution and give back to the states the powers not specifically assigend to the Federal Government. At least if the money was shifted back to the state and local level there would be a greater accountability (hopefully). I’d still be screwed though because I live in California where our budget has been FUBAR for decades.
It is most refreshing to see a fellow artist with such a mindset. I am a professional dancer and a constitutionalist which many people find to be an odd combination… but as a rugged individualist who likes total control over my own life, I never found any reason to trust the government. I also cannot stand this attitude many people have that Bush supposedly “sacrificed the future of our nation for his own political gain,” and yet when their candidate has the power, he is simply “doing what needs to be done,” even when he is even more overbearing than the politician they hated so much (I also can’t stand these people who hate the politicians who oppose them more than they love America!). People should realize that WE are the ones who make the country work instead of calling on the government programs to solve every problem we find. One of the reasons I even chose to manage my own career is because I am against the activism that is so abundant in my profession and I would never want to be seen representing it (or looking like I do)…
…rambling…
This article was a breath of fresh air. It is always nice to see people who actually “get it!”
“Don’t trust the government”. You said it!