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Miscellaneous See other Miscellaneous Articles Title: When Does Government Cease to be Useful Governments started to raise taxes when the north and the south were engaged in civil war in the United States. The cost of war was too great for any one rich individual, or collection of rich individuals to finance alone, so the majority of people were willing to let a central body take a certain amount of their money to fight a cause which they believed in. After the civil war was over the idea of governments levying taxes stuck around, since people had become used to it, and enabled the creation of our modern governments with city planning, well-maintained highways, healthcare systems and the like. Today the average westerner cannot contemplate a life without government control, since its influence has become so huge in their personal thought patterns. The main reason for this is that government IS the only voice of the people with “teeth”. There is no other collective voice which has an equal power to control and punish. If an individual is dissatisfied with government regulation, thinks it restrictive and against the common good, there are two options. You can try to change government policy, which is a slow path offering fierce endemic resistance, or you can break the law and likely end up with a large fine or behind bars. The majority of people choose to accept the good with the bad of government and although they may grumble at rising taxes they cannot see a clear path forward to change government excesses, inefficiencies and unnecessary controlling behaviour. The individual has no way of punishing government for bad decisions which cause suffering in the general population. The government is controlling the people, but who is controlling the government? The election of a different political party does nothing to improve these problems because government has become a self-supporting mechanism which is protected against the actions of individual politicians as well. The amusing side of this conundrum was very well portrayed in the old BBC television series “Yes Minister”. The question needs to be asked – “Who is the government really working for?” Do the majority of people think it is acting in their best interests, or do they feel that their life is being hampered by the actions of government? Each person has within them a desire to serve and be useful. This is a loving and positive human attribute which exists in us all and seeks expression. On the opposite side is a desire to control others, which is fear-based. Fear arises from notions of scarcity, a belief that if you have, then I cannot have, so I had better control your behaviour to ensure I get plenty of what I want. If we examine the actions of government, how much of what they do is grounded in love and how much springs from fear? The answer to that is reflected in the current collective level of thought. Governments could not exist as they are unless collective thought supported them. If collective thought strongly opposed the restrictive nature of bureaucracy then bureaucracy would have to change. If collective thought was based in love and not fear, then governments would have to change their methods. If people abhorred the notion of people living like animals behind bars, then prisons would cease to exist. Thought power is the real power. Governments are not creative. They are controlling and regulating. Oftentimes their regulation activities stifle creativity. Oftentimes their fears cause them to engage in wars with other countries so they can plunder that country’s resources and eradicate conflicting ideologies. The cost of these wars, borne by the general population, causes unnecessary suffering. This truth is masked by the “spin doctors” of government who promote the war as a fight to maintain our democratic rights or somesuch thing. Governments are adept at advertising and promoting themselves, and they have the resources, our taxes, to do it. So what it comes back to is that the society is as good as we, collectively, are. And we collectively, can change the way we are by thinking differently. So we collectively, are well served by taking an interest in how we can control our thought. Controlling our own thought is not a “bad thing” but a “good thing”. Mind control is abhorred by government unless they are the ones doing the controlling. But the individual is always free to think what they like. Thinking is substance, which releases something into the atmosphere which becomes a part of world consciousness. The thing is we are all looking for a leader to guide us to a better life. But when that promising individual gets into power, their own fear orientation takes over and they begin acting from the basis of fear not love. There is no way to pass the responsibility for a better life on to another person. Each person needs to find that better life within themselves. Realising the power of thought is the way. Supporting only positive thoughts. If everyone keeps to that a different world will happen quickly. So how do we recognise when government has exceeded their mandate and what can we do about it? The simple rule is that government has exceeded their mandate when they stifle the best interest of evolution instead of fostering it. Bureaucratic redtape is an example of stifling creativity and one with which we are all familiar. Government’s mission of creating orderliness in society is at a point where it has become overzealous and counterproductive. When an entity controls a large pool of wealth and can manipulate publicly available information they gain an unseemly power over physical events. They can steer development in a way which is contrary to the course of positive evolution for humankind. In the grand scheme of things none of this will matter, but in a lifetime it can make a real difference. Government has gone too far when it: • gets people to go to war for it, then prosecutes them for killing others in a distasteful way to protect its own reputation • supports rich and powerful people who steal and plunder other people’s resources and ideas • holds back inventions so that powerful people can benefit from the current level of progress before letting the new invention on the market • over regulates to the point that people are not free to start and maintain businesses with ease • taxes people to the extent that they cannot afford to commercialise their good ideas • promotes fear in any arena, be it safety, health or financial well-being • causes people to lose confidence in themselves by deliberate actions promoting themselves as the expert authority on just about everything
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#1. To: earthchild (#0)
Ours is way past too far.
Obama's health care plan shall be written by a committee whose head says he doesn't understand it, passed by a Congress that hasn't read it, signed by a president who smokes and has no birth certificate, funded by a treasury chief who did not pay his taxes, overseen by a surgeon general who is overweight and financed by a country that is nearly broke. What could possibly go wrong? - buckeroo |
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