WHOSE GOVERNMENT IS THIS, ANYWAY?
The career politicians and bureaucrats, along with the pundits of the left, are currently wailing and keening over what the depict as dangerous "antigovernment" sentiment at loose in the land, but they're way off base. Most people believe strongly in our form of government. We just don't like how it has been perverted and contorted out of shape over the past few decades.
Our dissatisfaction has two main, related causes.
First, government does too many things we don't want it to do. In fact, the general drift of government activism has been to do things that help small minorities and special interests at the expense of the majority.
Second, every time the government does anything, it ends up costing us too much money. The costs nearly always outweigh the benefits.
In other words, the people who pay for government are the people whom government seems least interested in serving. You could even say that we pay government to do things that damage us. But we're not angry at government--just at some of the bozos who run it.
This was written in 1996, but sounds like it could have been penned yesterday.
No comments:
Post a Comment