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We have become obsessed with
government regulation to keep us safe.
We impose these regulations on our producers, manufacturers and
industries to the point we drive production overseas where we have absolutely
no visibility on how things are done.
Then we set our priorities on
paying for big programs, with managers for managers and assistants to the
managers, so that when budgets are built the workers themselves are too
expensive and the work force is reduced to the point where we only randomly
inspect goods coming into our country.
Then we wonder how dangerous stuff gets into our products. In our zeal to protect ourselves – have we?
We complain about how the rich
get richer, while the poor stay poor. We
set up vast bureaucracies to redistribute wealth. Unfortunately the tax code regulations,
written, rewritten, modified and amended over the past 100 years, are a vast hodge-podge of rules established to fund the government while encouraging
business, and perhaps protect those whose political favor is sought by the politicians. Because of this, the wealth distribution
really only happens between the middle class and the poor while the rich are
able to maneuver within the labyrinth of shelters and loop holes.
We now talk about more taxing of the 1%;
unfortunately 99% of the people who say that don’t have a clue as to what it
means because they are the self-same ones who say their taxes are too
high. They clamor on the backs of the
political operatives who’ve found someone to blame for our problems. They are inflaming the passions of people who
want everything - but want someone else to pay for it, just as they did when
they argued that taxes were too high in California and pushed for Proposition
13. We don’t like to pay taxes so let’s
not! Of course what was a jewel of a State
University system back then -- isn’t anymore and the entire infrastructure of
the state is questionable, but so many people know what is right let’s just do
all their right things, even if we don’t have funds, heck it is only debt and
that’s someone else’s problem isn’t it?
Then we come to the protections
of the Constitution. Historically we
viewed the Constitution as not only the framework for our government, but in
its amendments the bedrock of protections of the individual against the
transgressions of the state. Now we seek
to use those protections to bludgeon the individual when their wishes run
counter to the loudest voices of the political movements, and we do so through
a willing court system that carries those self-same political agendas. It is for some - more important to get their
way then to protect the concept of independence and individuality, so in the
name of some cause they are willing to sacrifice their freedoms, one same step
at a time.
History has shown political
movements are like pendulums. Swinging
first one way; then the other with increasing movement to the extreme, until
something cataclysmic forces them to reset.
It is inevitable, just a matter of time before it happens. Then what?
It is indeed a conundrum.
