Government Gone Wild — Comments

The recent post received some interesting commentary from the readers over at American Thinker for those interested. Here are the first two; the others can be read by clicking on the link below.

COMMENTS ON AMERICANTHINKER

• GeorgiaBoy61 Today 04:20 AM

  Re: “Government has become little more than a carefully crafted myth based on propaganda disseminated by government itself. It has devolved into a scheme of plunder whereby the elites plunder the masses.” Indeed. Author Peter Schweizer makes much the same point in his excellent new book, “Throw Them All Out.”
  Re: “Government transmogrified into a vicious predator, preying on the wealth of the productive to enrich the political class and its cronies. It is no longer a force for good, but for evil. It has turned into the biggest criminal enterprise known to man.” Yes, government has turned into the biggest criminal enterprise known to man. Which begs the question, what are we the people going to do about it? Make no mistake, the people are the last line of defense in this undertaking – because just about every other institution upon which everyday Americans used to depend and trust, has been corrupted. If they aren’t in on the game, plundering our wealth, they are sitting on the sidelines, wringing their hands and telling us that they are powerless to change anything.

• jlevyellow Today 08:24 AM

  Monty Pelerin wrote, “the rest of us should be dealing with the problem of regaining control of a government gone wild before it bankrupts itself, the country, and its citizens.”
  Wrong, wrong, wrong!  Well intentioned, but wrong.  Parts of the government need to disappear.  But they need to wither away of their own weakness, like companies that are no longer competitive.   Policies of “regaining control” are recipes for an injection of funds and “revitalization.”  Bureaucracies wither from lack of funds.  As soon as hard choices must be made within a bureaucracy, things will happen of their own.  If the Department of Education wishes to survive, it will concentrate its attention on what it does best – in its own estimation – since funding will be drying up.  They would at first try to save the most empowered employees, but those employees will have to become truly productive, since the threat of further de-funding will cause the same tension that occurs when a company becomes lean and mean after layoffs.  A slow defunding of government will get better results than amputations as talented but underutilized government employees re-enter the private labor market.  As Hayek notes, random unfairness is better than…

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