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Government is necessary for some things, but should do as little as possible, and should confine itself to important functions that private persons or groups CANNOT DO AT ALL. Examples include National Defense, smoothing the course of interstate commerce with minimal interference in that commerce, conducting foreign relations, setting national standards for money, weights, and measures, dispassionately pursuing and prosecuting criminal behavior, etc.
Occasional events like wars might cause govt departments designed to deal with them, to grow to a size appropriate to do so. But afterward govt must reduce back to its smaller size.
If you feel that government can do something better than private people or groups can do it, that's insufficient reason to grant govt authority to do it. If private people can do it at all, it must be denied to govt unequivocally.
The reason for these restrictions, is that:
(a) Government cannot do anything well, due in part to the fact that no one can compete with it, and will always be rife with sloth and inefficiency;
(b) Government's only ability is to restrict and punish its citizens. This is activity extremely vulnerable to abuse, and capable of damaging and destroying lives by the millions if not carefully watched and restrained.
(c) History grimly shows that when government is allowed more authority than necessary, the imperfect humans it's made of begin to abuse that power, virtually every time. And with time, that abuse only increases, often rising to disastrous levels.
For these reasons, the powers given to government must be carefull spelled out and restricted, with those it restricts retaining full power to change or abolish it.
If the private sector can defend the country better than the government, why have a government run defense department and all else that relates to our national security?
A smaller government is less competition for the rich. Look at who backs the Kochbaggers.
A smaller government is less competition for the rich. Look at who backs the Kochbaggers.
I just love the way you equate organized plunder with "competition." Apparently you believe a mugging is a "competition" between the perp and his victim.
So the Republicans weren't going to pass ACA as written if Obama OK'd the Koch pipeline and reduced environmental regulations?
Government needs to do what needs doing. Some things government does more efficiently and effectively than individuals can. That is why we formed governments.
Why try to arbitrarily restrict the size of government?
Let the voters decide what size government they want
A smaller government is less competition for the rich. Look at who backs the Kochbaggers.
The smallest and least powerful government on the planet has more power than the richest corporation.
If the private sector can defend the country better than the government,
It can't. Govt is required, to organize and MANDATE the things necessary for defense.
I just love the way you equate organized plunder with "competition." Apparently you believe a mugging is a "competition" between the perp and his victim.
So the Republicans weren't going to pass ACA as written if Obama OK'd the Koch pipeline and reduced environmental regulations?
Whatever does your incoherent blabber have to do with my post?
Nonsense.
Indeed, during the last 20 years, with regard to the fad to privatize certain public sector activities, taxpayers have seen little if any in the way savings with no improvement in the quality of public service, as indeed there are some things just best left to government to address.
But to adhere blindly to dogma left or right that only government or only the private sector is best-suited to address a given issue, as the OP advocates, is both naïve and counter-productive.
Last, if a citizen believes his government has acted in a manner that compromises his civil liberties, or that exceeds the bounds afford it by the Constitution, he is always at liberty to file suit in Federal court to seek relief.
A smaller government is less competition for the rich. Look at who backs the Kochbaggers.
The smallest and least powerful government on the planet has more power than the richest corporation.
Didn't the oil industry bring the US to it's knees with the fake gasoline shortage in the late 70's?
A smaller government is less competition for the rich. Look at who backs the Kochbaggers.
The smallest and least powerful government on the planet has more power than the richest corporation.
Didn't the oil industry bring the US to it's knees with the fake gasoline shortage in the late 70's?
So the Republicans weren't going to pass ACA as written if Obama OK'd the Koch pipeline and reduced environmental regulations?
Whatever does your incoherent blabber have to do with my post?
My post was less competition for the rich. An OK for the Koch pipeline and reduced environmental regulations would be less competition for the Koch income.
So the Republicans weren't going to pass ACA as written if Obama OK'd the Koch pipeline and reduced environmental regulations?
Whatever does your incoherent blabber have to do with my post?
My post was less competition for the rich. An OK for the Koch pipeline and reduced environmental regulations would be less competition for the Koch income.
A smaller government is less competition for the rich. Look at who backs the Kochbaggers.
The smallest and least powerful government on the planet has more power than the richest corporation.
Didn't the oil industry bring the US to it's knees with the fake gasoline shortage in the late 70's?
Government is necessary for some things, but should do as little as possible, and should confine itself to important functions that private persons or groups CANNOT DO AT ALL. Examples include National Defense, smoothing the course of interstate commerce with minimal interference in that commerce, conducting foreign relations, setting national standards for money, weights, and measures, dispassionately pursuing and prosecuting criminal behavior, etc.
Occasional events like wars might cause govt departments designed to deal with them, to grow to a size appropriate to do so. But afterward govt must reduce back to its smaller size.
If you feel that government can do something better than private people or groups can do it, that's insufficient reason to grant govt authority to do it. If private people can do it at all, it must be denied to govt unequivocally.
The reason for these restrictions, is that:
(a) Government cannot do anything well, due in part to the fact that no one can compete with it, and will always be rife with sloth and inefficiency;
(b) Government's only ability is to restrict and punish its citizens. This is activity extremely vulnerable to abuse, and capable of damaging and destroying lives by the millions if not carefully watched and restrained.
(c) History grimly shows that when government is allowed more authority than necessary, the imperfect humans it's made of begin to abuse that power, virtually every time. And with time, that abuse only increases, often rising to disastrous levels.
For these reasons, the powers given to government must be carefull spelled out and restricted, with those it restricts retaining full power to change or abolish it.
If the private sector can defend the country better than the government, why have a government run defense department and all else that relates to our national security?
The smallest and least powerful government on the planet has more power than the richest corporation.
Didn't the oil industry bring the US to it's knees with the fake gasoline shortage in the late 70's?
No, the government did.
Didn't the oil industry bring the US to it's knees with the fake gasoline shortage in the late 70's?
No, the government did.
Your Alzheimer's is effecting your posts. Again.
No, the people need to do what needs doing.Government needs to do what needs doing.Little-Acorn said:Government is necessary for some things, but should do as little as possible, and should confine itself to important functions that private persons or groups CANNOT DO AT ALL. Examples include National Defense, smoothing the course of interstate commerce with minimal interference in that commerce, conducting foreign relations, setting national standards for money, weights, and measures, dispassionately pursuing and prosecuting criminal behavior, etc.
Occasional events like wars might cause govt departments designed to deal with them, to grow to a size appropriate to do so. But afterward govt must reduce back to its smaller size.
If you feel that government can do something better than private people or groups can do it, that's insufficient reason to grant govt authority to do it. If private people can do it at all, it must be denied to govt unequivocally.
The reason for these restrictions, is that:
(a) Government cannot do anything well, due in part to the fact that no one can compete with it, and will always be rife with sloth and inefficiency;
(b) Government's only ability is to restrict and punish its citizens. This is activity extremely vulnerable to abuse, and capable of damaging and destroying lives by the millions if not carefully watched and restrained.
(c) History grimly shows that when government is allowed more authority than necessary, the imperfect humans it's made of begin to abuse that power, virtually every time. And with time, that abuse only increases, often rising to disastrous levels.
For these reasons, the powers given to government must be carefull spelled out and restricted, with those it restricts retaining full power to change or abolish it.
See the difference?
Government's only ability, is to punish and restrict its people.
Didn't even read the OP, did we?Some things government does more efficiently and effectively than individuals can.
Not even close.That is why we formed governments.
"Men are endowed ... with certain unalienable rights... to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men"
-Declaration of Independence
Get it? The reason we formed governments, is to protect our basic rights. Not to "give" us health care to make sure our toilets are the right size.
The smallest and least powerful government on the planet has more power than the richest corporation.
Didn't the oil industry bring the US to it's knees with the fake gasoline shortage in the late 70's?
Actually, it was the collapse of the Keynesian economic system that brought the US to it's knees. Namely stagflation. Carter was responsible for that.
Simply put, the government was never meant to do everything for you. It was meant to protect you, not run your life.
