Government: Too Big to Fix? | 5 Minute Videos

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For the past fifty years, the government has dramatically increased spending on education, healthcare, and welfare programs. But have these billions of dollars really made Americans smarter, healthier, and more prosperous? Joshua Rauh, professor of finance at Stanford and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, explains why big government leads to big problems.

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An insidious weaponisation of interdependence has evolved.

Mutual assured dissolution.

This has happened before.

History has forgotten their names.

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An insidious weaponisation of interdependence has evolved.

Mutual assured dissolution.

This has happened before.

History has forgotten their names.

I do agree.

I found the evidence of the problem to be unresolvable with a change of values.

But I do disagree, in principle, with the assertion that "government is the problem."

"Government," in this context, is not simply a body of rules and conduct... it is a collection of individuals, each capable of many things... many apparently choosing only those things which serve themselves and not the people.   

Government is people... we like to believe and think the "people" in that phrase is, in spirit, everyone, but in reality - it's been monopolized by a subset of them... and they would like it to be "just the way it is"... forever.  Since their arrival, they have obsessed after "continuity of governance" and "social engineering."  The signals are all there to see.  They'll ultimately land us in the ideas of destroying the government, and allowing them to "rebuild it."  It's the stuff of "old think."

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Just People !? Look at any tyrannical regime throughout history which killed 1000s if not millions yet they and their minions were just people. Pol Pot loved farmers and hated educated people "Poof" somewhere close to 2 million dead by the hands of his people. Stallin, Mao, and hundreds of other government Klingons were just people as they sent their citizens to be hung, burned, shot, or killed by a thousand cuts while the PEOPLE watched and laughed..We today have people rotting in jail (Jan.6th) and others broken because of the lawfare that the people of this government has brought down upon their heads.. Hey just people !

  I fear no god only people who claim they can talk to god and carry out his commandment as the witches are burned and non believers are stoned or important pieces of the bodies are removed. But hey just people, rejoice !! !

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Well, you know, States gonna do State things.

But point taken.  Governments are just people in the same way people are just cells.

They seem to have life and characteristics all their own.

There's a "Banality of Evil" point here.  Did Hitler have evil mitochondria?

Just people, indeed.

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Just People !? Look at any tyrannical regime throughout history which killed 1000s if not millions yet they and their minions were just people. Pol Pot loved farmers and hated educated people "Poof" somewhere close to 2 million dead by the hands of his people. Stallin, Mao, and hundreds of other government Klingons were just people as they sent their citizens to be hung, burned, shot, or killed by a thousand cuts while the PEOPLE watched and laughed..We today have people rotting in jail (Jan.6th) and others broken because of the lawfare that the people of this government has brought down upon their heads.. Hey just people !

  I fear no god only people who claim they can talk to god and carry out his commandment as the witches are burned and non believers are stoned or important pieces of the bodies are removed. But hey just people, rejoice !! !

The actual problem is always "just people" - that's not meant to excuse them or diminish the wrongdoing.  It's not a moral statement... nor is it a judgment of any kind.

I'm just trying to point out that our government (like most governments) was never conceived or designed so as to be abused by a group of ideologues or mafiosi...

Those people who slew thousands are people - not to be confused with what beliefs or ideologies they pretend to serve... they could have, and probably would have, done those things regardless of what government was in place. 

A government isn't a "real' thing that can pick up a gun and kill people... it takes a person to do that, one who 'excuses' themselves as 'obeying orders' or 'being loyal' to [insert group name here.]

People aren't ever truly "governed" - they choose to be governed.  They choose not to resist or object. 

They "do" because a) everyone is doing it, b) they are obedient and subordinate to whatever, or c) they want to.

I don't want to 'rejoice' about that... it is sad.