The Corruption of Everything
Posted in Politics on 12. Oct, 2009
I’m constantly being told that I must submit. That the government knows best and that I must lie down and let the tanks roll over me. That the taxes they impose are for my benefit. That the new regulation on my person or the new invasion on my privacy is “for the common good” all with the attitude “we’re the government & you’re not”.
I don’t think you could find a more corrupt institution than our government…well at least not in comparison to other privately held corporations. It seems to me that not a day goes by where I don’t hear a news story about more government corruption. The media even masks it by calling it “waste and abuse” instead of a “CRIME!”
There are many government agencies operating effectively in bankruptcy yet have never filed for that protection. If they were a private entity the officers would be hauled off to jail, yet they continue to remain in office or employed with our stolen tax dollars. Look at the Social Security agency or the U.S. Post Office.
How about the FACT that a Tax Cheat is in charge of the U.S. Treasury department? Ironic yes…funny no. Government opperates on a defacto state of reset…every 2 years we hold an election and the corruption counter is reset. Even amongst those that are re-elected. I’m not going to go into details much. It wouldn’t matter. It wouldn’t change things.
The same crooks that created the economic mess we are in are still in power. Sure they may have changed the “R” to a “D” but it’s all the same collectivist criminals.
If ANY private corporation so consistantly flaunted the laws (like our politicians and their aids) that private entity would be closed down. Last time I checked fraud,assault,murder,embezzlement, running a ponzi scheme, theft, mayhem, civil rights violations, and counterfeiting were all illegal.
Yet, our government is doing it every day of the week.
“social gains,” “social aims,” “social objectives” have become the daily bromides of our language. The necessity of social justification for all activities and all existence is now taken for granted. There is no proposal… outrageous enough but what it’s author can get a respectful hearing and approbation if he claims that in some undefined way it is for “the common good.” ~ Any Rand
What is it going to take for us to stop them?
When those that are tasked with ensuring that we remain a nation of laws are themselves lawless, where do we stand?
Something’s got to give!
Before you throw out the typical fascist line: “Well then leave” think about what I’ve said. Further, why should I leave? I”M NOT THE CRIMINAL!
Hi Kurt,
I heard you on the radio this morning and looked up your site. I saw this post of yours especially noting that private/corporate interests that flaunt the laws would be shut down.
Have you read this article:
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/08/30/100830fa_fact_mayer?currentPage=all
It’s about two billionaires that have poured millions of dollars into affecting government and affecting pulic opinion. The author seems to prevent a convincing argument that theses billionaire brothers beieve their freedoms to do whatever serves their corporate bottom line are inalienanble…
I’m curious to hear your thoughts.
Thanks,
aaron
typical crony capitalism.
I don’t think there is anything typical about it. Unless it’s the frightening ‘new typical we should come to expect. These guys have spent multi-millions over decades to create from the ground-up ‘venerable’ institutions the by-product of which is ‘facts’ that support a radically corporate agenda. This passage jumped out at me:
–In 1977, the Kochs provided the funds to launch the nation’s first libertarian think tank, the Cato Institute. According to the Center for Public Integrity, between 1986 and 1993 the Koch family gave eleven million dollars to the institute. Today, Cato has more than a hundred full-time employees, and its experts and policy papers are widely quoted and respected by the mainstream media. It describes itself as nonpartisan, and its scholars have at times been critical of both parties. But it has consistently pushed for corporate tax cuts, reductions in social services, and laissez-faire environmental policies. –
While they tried (at least one of them – David I think) to run for political office themselves and failed, they have found synnergy in capitalizing on the passion of the Tea Party movement. I found this really interesting and frustrating:
–The anti-government fervor infusing the 2010 elections represents a political triumph for the Kochs. By giving money to “educate,” fund, and organize Tea Party protesters, they have helped turn their private agenda into a mass movement. Bruce Bartlett, a conservative economist and a historian, who once worked at the National Center for Policy Analysis, a Dallas-based think tank that the Kochs fund, said, “The problem with the whole libertarian movement is that it’s been all chiefs and no Indians. There haven’t been any actual people, like voters, who give a crap about it. So the problem for the Kochs has been trying to create a movement.” With the emergence of the Tea Party, he said, “everyone suddenly sees that for the first time there are Indians out there—people who can provide real ideological power.” The Kochs, he said, are “trying to shape and control and channel the populist uprising into their own policies.”–
It’s beyond sad and frightening, the power they exert. that story at the end of how one of them got cancer then gave so much to fund cancer research that he was named to the American Cancer Society Board, but with him there the Cancer Society never even thought to go after Formaldehyde in this country… Is it coincidental that as owners of Georgia Pacific building products the Koch brothers were some of the biggest producers of Formaldehyde?
I saw that you quoted Ayn Rand above. I recently opened up the Fountainhead which my wife was reading for the first time and came across a passage about the industrialist Gail Wyant (sp?) who’s entire existence was to turn people into souless shills through money, paying artists to be industrialists etc., It just seems like we as a nation and race have all let ourselves be bought by the trappings of our industrialist society.
It would seem to me that what would be the worst for these billionaires would be the end of partisan politics and the end of Red vs. Blue states and an end to the distraction of Republicans and Democrats. I don’t think government is the criminals, they are the rubber stamps bought for the corporations who get them elected in the first place.
Now that Citizens United is the law of the land there really wont be any criminals. Our govt. has made their buying of elections 100% legal. No one has to tell the public who is putting up finds to get people elected.
I’m a bit too depressed to go on so I’ll stop ranting now and end with this video from the past week’s Simpsons:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DX1iplQQJTo&feature
cheers!
aaron