How did we get to the point in our supposedly civilized world where people – the citizens – of most countries actually expect politicians to provide a solution to their everyday problems?
Politicians promise solutions which require the creation of a government bureaucracy in order to “study” the issue and provide their “solution”. Inevitably the bureaucracy requires more people and more money to “solve the problem”.
The reciprocally reinforcing daisy-chain effect of politicians perceiving problems for which they just happen to have the solution, requiring expanded bureaucratic manpower, and pandering to those that actually believe that those two groups can solve any problem is one of the ironies of our age. They operate on the principle which George Bernard Shaw eloquently identified: “When robbing Peter to pay Paul, you can count on the support of Paul”.
Whatever one’s opinion of former American President Ronald Reagan is, he did have plenty of experience in both government and private enterprise. He knew that those that believed the promise employed in the phrase :”I’m here from the government and I’m here to help”, were suckers ready to be duped out of the most valued thing America had to offer – a recognition by the Founding Fathers of the United States of America, that envisioned the primacy of life and the freedom to choose the way in which your life can be lived by enshrining constitutional rights of the individual and the limited power of the government to destroy those rights by imposing its power into the life of the individual.
Stumbling forward into a future in which citizens readily embrace the empty political promises, which are made with the implied promise that the government can and will solve personal problems, is mind-numbingly suicidal, unless slavery is seen as being preferable to freedom and personal responsibility.
Posted by halstone 