Comments on: Nationalize Banks or Privatize Congress?

By: Freedom Under Fire, Feb. 23rd, 2009 | The Freedom Factory

Freedom Under Fire, Feb. 23rd, 2009 | The Freedom Factory — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 07:28:37 +0000

[...] lawyers and career bureaucrats really run businesses better than those who actually run businesses? This well written, witty article suggests Congress runs its business horribly. In fact, Congress manages its affairs so poorly that [...]

By: Rob Viglione

Rob Viglione — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 17:34:13 +0000

@Justin – Great point about the fallibility of government officials. With these notions of a wise, all-knowing, paternalistic government we forget that bureaucrats are pulled from the same population pool we are simultaneously condemning and protecting.

Leftists condemn the “selfish” individualists who better their own lives, and pity the common man whom they claim is too stupid to handle his own affairs. They harbor such a low esteem for humanity and yet think that as soon as people put on a government uniform they lose their greed, become omniscient, and are magically capable of directing such undirectable affairs as the national economy and individual lives.

By: Justin

Justin — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 16:33:04 +0000

you raise interesting points about the constitutionality of government. I wonder how this warped sense of security in that blanket term, government, came about. Why on earth would lawyer have more insight into managing money, appropriating healthcare etc. than people who devote their lives to the subject? Would a used car salesman tell lance armstrong how best to ride a bike? Is it that people are greedy and corrupt whereas ‘government’ is not? Its easy to forget that every vice in the private sector exists in washington, compounded two-fold because of the lack of accountability and personality-type of those that dream of power. These aren’t the mother theresa’s of the world.

So whats the role of government? Raining lollipops out the sky with a pool of taxpayer money probably isn’t it. Although it would create jobs in the lollipop factories, the wrapper industry, and the street cleaning sector to clean the little white sticks off the ground.