Which political party fought tooth and nail to prevent the privatization (or personalization) of Social Security? Which political party spent the last two weeks pointing out each and every failure of the Federal, State and Local Governments? The answer to those questions is one and the same: The Democratic Party. A party that thinks the president is a moron, that the gov't lied to get us into Iraq and allowed for 9/11 to happen is the loudest supporter of keeping the government fat and lazy. The list of individual and minute contradictions in the liberal philosophy on government is as long and boring as John Kerry speech, so I will leave it concise.
The only way we can get the Federal Government to begin to cherish, and take serious its various duties is to start revoking them. It fails miserably at nearly everything but we so value the status-quo that we won't even fight to invest our own earnings? Perhaps the bureaucracy will begin to cut through its own red tape when we slowly but surely take back the powers we've allowed it to take for granted.
Competition is what drives progress and competition is what we need. Maybe public education will shake its 100 year slump when private schools emerge as a true threat. The pork-barrel spending will cease to make up our budget as we refuse to continually send them more and more money. And perhaps reaction time will decrease as we disband the agencies that fail us time and time again.
No matter what methods are used to clean up this dismal mess of a bureaucratic system, we must wake up and realize that a bigger government is not the answer. It's ridiculous to sit back and be shocked by continued failure, because we've designed the system that way. Katrina hasn't proved that Bush hates black people, it simply proved that government hates all people and cares only about itself. Ironically, in despite of all this, what do we do in this country? Tell ourselves that the government is smarter than we are.
Article comments
1 - Lee Richards
Fine post. I agree with most of your points, but don't forget it is the Not-So-Conservatives who are currently burying us with ever-mounting deficits. Instead of being represented by an elephant and a donkey, I suggest two new Party symbols:hyena and hog--and I don't think it makes any difference which is which.
2 - The Searcher
Very good read, especially:
"government hates all people and cares only about itself"
I feel as though our two-party system is like being faced with Sophie's Choice.
3 - ryan
Thank you.
Though I'm fairly certain that a 4 party system would just leave us with twice as many morons. :)
4 - The Searcher
Yes, but think of a photograph with a higher degree of resolution; as you add more pixels, the image does at least move in the general direction of clarity.
It takes millions of dollars to win a campaign and the money's got to come from somewhere.
You've got to have money and power to get in the game in the first place. It also takes a great deal of money to propogate your spin-spunk to the masses through the media.
The sad fact is that if stupid people far outnumber intelligent ones, the representative democracy is going to put stupid people in office if it works properly. If you are a whore-mongering crack addict, and your constituency of fellow crack-addicts comprises a majority, you might just get elected -- it happens.
5 - ryan
Oh I know. And I totally understand.
My point was simply this: Politicians will always be morons, regardless of party system (2, 4 6, 8) and as such, we ought to have them in charge of as little as possible.
6 - ryanb
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7 - The Searcher
Your point, as stated, is well-taken and dead on.
The text on your menus is too dark, it blends with the blue background and is hard to read :)
8 - some dude
what does the declaration of independance say about this. Read it and you'll learn that there is something that we can do about it. Everyone thinks that they have the upper hand. And there right only as long as we do nothing about it. We need to do domething about it before the internet is done away with. And I hear that they're talking about it.
9 - ryan
dude: you're absolutely right. we must do something about it, and that was the point of my article