Dear Friends,
It seems absurd to me… when someone says the government supports the economy. It’s like saying the roof of a house supports the foundation. It’s confusing the role of government with the role of businesses. Everything has a purpose. The private sector, the public sector and the government itself all have roles to play in structuring society. Confusing their respective functions are never the ideal place to start a conversation. Far from supporting the economy, government sucks its lifeblood. Like a leech. Take away the leech and the host will go on, better than before, remove the host and the leech starves. Government is no different. It cannot survive without a host. Therefore, it is absurd to say that the government supports the economy, when it is the economy that supports the government.
Private firms create wealth. Government squanders it. There can be no more basic truth than that. Government only takes, from those who earned it, and spends it on the politically favored. At the top of that list are the politicians, then their bootlicks, and then the rent seekers. Finally, a few crumbs fall from the table into the mouths of those on the dole. If not for the wealth created by private businesses, government would starve, as assuredly as a leech denied a host. The reality is, governments, all of them, waste money. They waste it on naming stuff after themselves, luxury, and enhancing their power. Little is spent to improve the lot of mankind. Money is power and no one knows this better than government officials. So that is all they spend our money on. Enhancing their power over us.
An argument could be made, government shares a symbiotic relationship with the private sector, but let’s face it, government is parasitic. It may or may not be needed, nevertheless, it exists by sucking the lifeblood from the private economy. In a symbiotic relationship both the host and the symbiote give and take. It is a win win. In a parasite host relationship, on the other hand, it is a win lose. The parasite’s profit comes at cost to the host with nothing given in return. Law could be cited as an example of how government gives back, and it would be a good one, where law is not arbitrary, coining the currency is another valid role of government in the relationship, if government maintained zero inflation, and obviously there is protecting the nation from other nations, but for the warmongering.
Ideally, the foundation holds up the edifice while the roof keeps rain off, but no matter how stout the roof, and how light the foundation, the roof will not support it. Socialism, communism and corporatism are attempts to build a national structure where the roof supports the foundation. In those systems the government has gone crazy. The parasite calls itself the host and declares the host cannot survive without it. The once seven foot three hundred pound weightlifter, who is now a sixty pound rack of bones, notwithstanding. No, the reality is, the foundation supports the roof, as a host supports the parasite, but a parasite cannot support a host, as a roof cannot support a foundation. Even if government was symbiotic, it could not be the host, it is dependent… not independent.
Words and their definitions matter. Communication is impossible when we confuse the definitions of words. In the case of government and economy, confusing the two is a sure path to societal disarray. At best we could claim an ideal government to be symbiotic with the economy, society and people. Usually however, it gets out of control, like candida, and becomes an infection. A parasite. That parasite gets mesmerized by its power and goes nuts. Thinking it is the host, and the host is dependent on it, which is upside down and backwards. How can a host consume from a parasite that eats from it? That is eating yourself. Governments then that have gone mad, and think the host is dependent on them, will not last long, even if they started out as a seven foot three hundred pound weightlifter.
Sincerely,
John Pepin
