Politicians are Evil
Georges Pompidou was the Prime Minister of France from 1962 to 1968 who said, “A statesman is a politician who places himself at the service of the nation. A politician is a statesman who places the nation at his service.” Our own national leader of the same time told us, “Mothers may still want their favorite sons to grow up to be President, but…they do not want them to become politicians in the process” (John F. Kennedy). They both revealed a profound truth: politicians are not the friends of the nonpolitician and should be reviled. Our current national leadership clearly does not benefit society, but instead burdens the majority of us so they can benefit the privileged few, including the politicians themselves!
One does not need a formal education to see the simple truth that spending beyond income is foolish and unsustainable. In the case of government we need to change income to revenues, since most governments do not actually produce anything that generates actual income; they tax, fine, and create money out of thin air. The goal of a politician is to increase personal power and wealth; that goal is achieved through ever-increasing government spending.
Power is exercised by allocating expenditures; the more allocations one controls, the greater one’s power. That is power to “punish” their perceived enemies and the power to “reward” their perceived friends. Enemies of politicians do not believe a “political ruling class” is appropriate in our republic. Their friends are individuals and corporations who fund the election/re-election campaigns; thereby allowing politicians to remain in office long enough to build a power base and influence legislation that rewards their backers.
The most amazing thing is the sheer number of otherwise intelligent and hard-working people who refuse to believe what their eyes see and their ears hear: politicians are evil because they cause harm. Instead of declaring them evil, we too often reward them with another term of office instead of sending them to prison where a great many of them belong. They are looters who confiscate our property so they can redistribute it to moochers; and scoundrels who enact laws to render their actions “legal” when the most uneducated among us clearly understands that forcibly taking something owned by another is wrong under almost any circumstance.
Government is steadily increasing the public debt while concomitantly diminishing the ability of our private enterprise system to thrive. A great many small businesses today are desperately trying to survive under the crushing weight of federal regulation, taxation, and criminalization of almost any act that attempts to slow or roll back the powers of government. We can all vote for change if we can find statesmen to run for office.
One does not need a formal education to see the simple truth that spending beyond income is foolish and unsustainable. In the case of government we need to change income to revenues, since most governments do not actually produce anything that generates actual income; they tax, fine, and create money out of thin air. The goal of a politician is to increase personal power and wealth; that goal is achieved through ever-increasing government spending.
Power is exercised by allocating expenditures; the more allocations one controls, the greater one’s power. That is power to “punish” their perceived enemies and the power to “reward” their perceived friends. Enemies of politicians do not believe a “political ruling class” is appropriate in our republic. Their friends are individuals and corporations who fund the election/re-election campaigns; thereby allowing politicians to remain in office long enough to build a power base and influence legislation that rewards their backers.
The most amazing thing is the sheer number of otherwise intelligent and hard-working people who refuse to believe what their eyes see and their ears hear: politicians are evil because they cause harm. Instead of declaring them evil, we too often reward them with another term of office instead of sending them to prison where a great many of them belong. They are looters who confiscate our property so they can redistribute it to moochers; and scoundrels who enact laws to render their actions “legal” when the most uneducated among us clearly understands that forcibly taking something owned by another is wrong under almost any circumstance.
Government is steadily increasing the public debt while concomitantly diminishing the ability of our private enterprise system to thrive. A great many small businesses today are desperately trying to survive under the crushing weight of federal regulation, taxation, and criminalization of almost any act that attempts to slow or roll back the powers of government. We can all vote for change if we can find statesmen to run for office.
Most regulations are to give advantage to the established organization to perpetuate their position and protect them from innovative approaches that will challenge the status quo. Big oil, big banking, big medicine, big brokerages all invite heavy regulation which they publically damn but privately support.
Protected classes, minorities, the old, the poor, the sick, the lazy, the plain fraudulent leaches have formed a coalition and sold their support for alms. No one is doing anything different than all mankind has done throughout history. It only seems to be an outrage because the US pretended to be different. For a brief period we half way lived up to our ideals and created a society and economy like has never been seen before. Unfortunately we have sold it for "free phones."
Our best recourse is to either fight fire with fire or find a physical Galt’s Gulch. The fire is, as you aptly described, a coalition of looters and moochers. To stand against them we need all liberty minded citizens to stand together in opposition of the status quo. We have the high moral ground as our desire is not to take from others to allow some to flourish. Our opposition belittles us individually and in small groups in such a way that we just can’t seem to pull together based on what we have in common; a desire for a smaller, less intrusive federal government. I would love to see all liberty lovers set aside their party names, the organization names, and their numerous priorities so we could all focus on one uniting principle of stopping the out-of-control growth of the federal leviathan. Only then can we achieve the primary goal of reducing government’s size and scope. Like driving a car in reverse, one must first come to a full stop before moving forward.
If there was no collusion among the aristocracy of the DemRep party to eliminate participation in the governing process your statement might have some validity.
However, in lieu of violent revolution, the people have had no ethical representation for a long time.
1. the definition (philosophical) of altruism. Comte said to get rid of natural rights and that all people had were duties. Not surprisingly, he was setting up a philosophy based on religious principles without God. The minute you say "byproduct of serving one’s own needs..." your act is not altruistic.
2".However, her objectivist philosophy is not of paramount interest to me. Her speech quotes John Galt, as if that is not a circular reference since SHE wrote that speech, as if doing so adds credibility to her words." The whole point of Atlas Shrugged is to illustrate what happens. Why should she not point to her own words?