The Government Man

On my 65th birthday the government man interposed himself between me and my doctor to tell my doctor what would be best for me. I did and do not like it, but the government man feels it is best. Now the government man is about to interpose himself between you and your doctor in order to dictate what is in your best interest. The government man tells me what kind of insurance I have to buy, but I am after-all older than 65 and the government man determines what is best for me. Now the government man has determined it is in your best interest to buy insurance; soon he will tell you what insurance to buy and if you don’t comply he will force you to pay a tax!

As a young man I understood that by consenting to live within a society organized to maximize my freedom I derived great benefits; my life and property were more secure with the arrangement and I could get on with more interesting and less mundane concerns than watching my stuff all day. I understood that the legislators who governed that society served at my pleasure to follow the rules agreed upon to protect life, property and maximize freedom.

I am of the opinion that the legislators have lost their way and grossly expanded their reach in attempting to improve my life. Property I possess they consider loaned at their convenience and my personal health care decisions require a government assist. The rules that govern civility allow the people to replace the legislators in order to return to the social contract that fulfills the original promise to maximize freedom while protecting property. Keep that thought as you step into the voting booth in November.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

a conservative view

  What makes me a conservative ? I believe in the inalienable right of men to be free to pursue happiness.  This is the classic liberal idea, part of man’s unalterable natural state. Civilized society restricts man's animal instincts for self preservation by organizing to cooperate in pursuit of the fundamental necessities to survive. We call these restrictions government. The most common forms are top-down and authoritarian in nature. Government of people by people was recently introduced to the world.   Viewed historically, it is an idea that must be considered experimental and, as such, subject to failure. Two competing ideologies vie for supremacy in pursuit of government by the people; Capitalism enshrined in the US Constitution in 1788 and Communism introduced by the Russian Revolution 1917. Capitalism is a   laissez-faire philosophy; unrestricted it will crush the weakest. Communism demands central control of all aspects of society; eliminating an...
Read more

Divisive Media

  We would be better served if exposed less.   Television news desks feature two types; field reporters and anchor personalities.   The field reporters address news on-site,   reporting facts for the most part.   Anchors are   on-screen personalities that populate programming 24/7. Media syndicates congregate these personalities to deliver a message.   The underlying agenda is heavily weighted to politics. Media   personalities are generally unskilled, over privileged   narcissists dancing around a narrative; as a group they are out of touch with people, just watch them demonstrate detached interest when exposed in public.   They are grossly over rated opinion leaders;   abusing their position across the board.   The country would be better served if exposed less.   Unfortunately the programming is relatively cheap and effective in delivering eyeballs to advertising content, the penultimate goal off all print and ele...
Read more

Justice

  We are witnessing a brazen attempt to destroy the Aristotelian construct of Just Constitutional governance.   Democrats, empowered by a cabal of shadowy high tech oligarchs, appear poised to crush the Great Experiment (government of and by the people) entertained in U.S.A. for 244 years. Precisely four weeks (28 days) have passed since the Presidential Election of 2020; revelations of massive fraud committed by the deep state, facilitated by foreign adversaries and widely denied by national media; bring the Republic to a "Y" in the road leading to the future.   If the fraud prevails we veer left and lose our franchise leading to tyrannical oligarchy.   Liberty and just constitutional governance live on the right path. Freedom and just government of   and by the people demands free and fair elections. This is a fight!   A fight for freedom.   A revolution against oppressors; in other words, a fight worth risking everything.   When you fight...
Read more