The problem with government solving our problems–whether it’s a government of kings and dukes and earls or a government of presidents and senators and congressmen–is that rulers “fix” problems to suit themselves.
Ponder that one, Pinky.
Words to chill the soul:
“I’m from the government; I’m here to help.”
I think, government can solve only global problems, it cant solve just the problem of one man, they can help poor folk or homeless, but they cant help just a man to buy a new house or new car.
It’s a nice thought, Tomoyo, but consider: how has government “help” actually helped homeless folk or poor folk? My suggestion: go do volunteer work in homeless shelters that are financed with government funds. See how much real help is being offered and how much of the “help” just makes things worse. (I’ve actually done that, and I know the answer.)
Next, live in a “poor” neighborhood or community and observe what government handouts actually accomplish. Hint: from personal observation living in one such community where close to 90% of the inhabitants were on so-called “welfare” my guess would be that if your eyes were open you’d see that government handouts simply breed more “need”.
Neither of your examples persuade me that my premise is flawed. Indeed, from my experience and observations, I’d say you provided two of the prime examples of government “fixing things” to create situations where more “fixing” is then needed–not too good for the citizens, but good for politicians, because it gives them yet more excuses to expand the power they exercise, and… make the problems they’d worsened (or created) worse still.
Government can’t solve global problems. It can only exacerbate them. The only legitimate purpose of government is to defend the people from tyrants and to ensure liberty in an ordered society. With heavy emphasis on LIBERTY.
The purpose of government is to provide jobs to those incapable of doing an honest days work. not funny, is it…
Perri! What in the world are you doing posting the Founders’ concept of the proper role of government! *heh* (That the Founders’ concept of the proper role of government just happens to strongly echo Romans 13, et al, is anathema to the commie-fag-(power)junkie political set, of course–with not-so-sincere apologies to George Carlin for hijacking the expression “commie-fag-junkie”)
TF: the model of governance you propose is a subset of Pournelle’s Iron Law of Bureaucracy:
Institution of useless or harmful government programs/bureaucracies–like soi disant “welfare” programs–isn’t nearly as big a problem as their perpetuation and expansion under Pournelle’s Iron Law.