The dangers of giving government too much power should be obvious but too few understand them. The concentration of power has always been a dangerous thing, begging to be abused. What is so sad is the willingness of bureaucrats (and others who have sold their souls to the system) to grab at a few measly dollars for themselves even if it means 100, 1000 or 1,000,000x in losses for the system.
In fact, that is literally the case with this sad sack of a bureaucratic bent who recently admitted to falsifying lab reports (made them up from thin air) in order to be viewed as more productive by her government bureaucrat agency. This a$$hat was playing with people's lives, the lives of their families and she was doing all of this in order to get a higher ranking at work. What's that worth anyway, a 4% raise instead of a 2% raise? We are talking about a few thousand bucks a year for this fool when easily calculable economic damage is in the millions of dollars and the damage to people's lives that she screwed over is simply beyond dollar terms.
This is exactly the reason that we must limit government powers. Obama is showing that he is no less the fool and arrogant self centered a$$ that Dookhan has proven herself to be. He is shooting from the hip, winging it and making it up as he goes along. He has no care for the economic damage he is doing, the money he is wasting, and the collapse of trust in government that his actions are engendering. As long as he can push his little socialist agenda along with a health care transfer program that bears his name, he cares nothing for anything else.
In the free market, ambition is a good thing because if the ambition is well placed, properly directed and evenly tempered then you have marvels of productivity like Google and Apple emerge from the effort. But in a government bureaucracy, people buy their positions using cash and political favors. Once in power, they use force of law (that means physical, even lethal force) to compel others to do their bidding. It's an old story that always ends badly.
Enough already!
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Seems like iraq style armoured vehicles are coming to America's neighbourhood soon, them being sold to your local sheriff's department. And strangely also being allocated to areas with little crime.
http://www.policymic.com/articles/74745/coming-soon-to-your-local-police-18-ton-armored-military-trucks-once-used-in-iraq
I've been watching it as well. But know this: these are mainly for show and intimidation value. They will mean little in a real 2nd revolution situation where people actually are shooting at each other.
If and when the people decide to throw off their oppressors, the oppressors will be thrown off. It might take time but it will happen. This is because government is a parasite that cannot live without that which they are trying to oppress. Government has no money except that which it steals from the people. If they oppress the people too strongly then the people will leave or die off. Either way, the parasite dies as a result of no host to rob.
For this reason the government will engage mainly in fear tactics. They know that a single MRAP in a town of even as small as 10000 people is as nothing in the big picture of a fight. But it looks fearsome and they hope it will scare the leaders and in turn that fear will spread through the herd.
As long as they can control the fear, they can control the herd. Like the water buffaloes and the lions video that I have posted several times, when the fear goes, the con men get the horns. Government is actually VERY weak compared to the people and so, in the wisdom of Sun Tzu, they try to appear strong. Smart people can see right through it. Smart people are not afraid.
And for the record, Fuck you, NSA.
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