Dear Friends,
It seems to me… all of our great societal problems are the fault of government. Now, with the unconstitutional lock downs, the connection cannot be denied. Not only were, and are, the lock downs an arbitrary decision of the State but the virus that gave them cover, was created by government! In what is called “Gain of function research,” and if Dr. Li-Meng Yan is to be believed, was intentionally released by the CCP. Therefore, every negative consequence suffered by anyone in this, economic, mental, or physical, is the direct fault of our elected and bureaucratic rulers… enforced by the police. Which makes this chaos an ideal example of how government creates all our problems, then we give them more money and power to solve them, but they make the problems worse instead.
Government is unique in that the more inept and corrupt it is, the more money, power and trust we give it. Creating a feedback loop. In the private sector, ineptitude and corruption are death knells for a firm, because companies are tested by the marketplace. Crony firms less so. A small business that is run by someone inept and corrupt doesn’t last long. The owner ending up on probation if not in jail. These are incentives the private sector has that keep people from being inept and corrupt. Government however punishes success. Take for example, one of the few government programs to ever work, the Rural Electrification Administration (REA). Today, every corner of the US is served, yet REA still exists, albeit smaller. That is an example no other bureaucracy wants to follow… to be smaller.
That pernicious incentive for government officials can only lead to inept and corrupt government. Take Eggebert Slokum, a mid level bureaucrat. The only standard he is held to… is if he puts the staple in the right location and uses the correct orientation of a paper clip, to denote one or two copies. He is overly educated and so considers himself far more worthy than those idiots he serves. Why should he do more than he has to? Or do a good job for that matter? In fact, if he kisses up, he will move up, but if he knuckles down and works hard, he will be stuck in a dead end forever. Now, Eggebert isn’t stupid, he is inept and corrupt, but not stupid, so he will bootlick his way up. While Penelope Doorite knuckles down and serves the people, her virtue is a trap. Meanwhile inept and corrupt Eggbert advances.
The ineptitude and corruption that the pernicious incentives create, destroys our liberties, economies and families. Government corruption and ineptitude create every problem you can think of. Far from solving any, that is the cheesecloth, covering their naked loathing of us. Instead of helping cure disease, make drugs cheap and available, government is in bed to make a corrupt profit. Making us sick. Instead of letting the market place function, in the name of protecting us, government creates monopolies. Monopolies that censor us, sell us dangerously defective products, and stifles competition. Making us measurably poorer. Instead of helping the family, the government manipulates our kids to self sterilize, abort our grand kids and use drugs… by inculcating hopelessness and absurdity. Wiping our posterity.
Ineptitude and corruption, when rewarded, lead to more ineptitude and corruption. Then that ineptitude and corruption lowers the lot of mankind. The answer is to take away the powers of that inept and corrupt government, reducing it to the point that it has so little power, its ineptitude and corruption can no longer harm us. Instead of listening to inept and corrupt people, who demand we give them unlimited power over us and our children, to create new problems and make existing ones worse, perhaps it’s time to put them to bed… like the spoiled brats they are. Incapable of solving problems… they excel at making them worse. If we are indeed self interested adults, not weak men that create hard times, we will ignore their tantrums and take away their power to make things worse.
Sincerely,
John Pepin
