During an unanticipated absence from our blog several questions churned through Peacock’s mind. We would appreciate your thoughts on these questions. We will include your comments in future blogs and also provide what we believe are some of the answers to these questions.
Why does the government demand an increasing amount of taxes from us as time goes on? Even those who pay no income tax pay tax. Go here, http://www.allamericanblogger.com/2242/how-much-tax-do-you-pay/, to see the various categories of taxes.
Why does the government demand that citizens register their firearms?
Why does the Democratic Party insist on government-managed health care?
Why does the federal government collect taxes from residents and businesses in states only to give it back to the states as part of federal programs?
Why are governments in some states pushing to outlaw home schooling and private schooling?
Why does the federal government demand that soldiers read Miranda rights to people on the battlefield who have been trying to kill them?
Why does the President not have line item veto power?
Why do members of Congress decry the practice of adding riders to bills but then put their own pork in the next bill?
Why are so many members of Congress much richer and much better paid than the people they represent?
Why aren’t members of Congress subject to the law to the same extent as the people they represent?
Why do members of Congress receive a massively generous retirement program that is much better than the social security program that the people they represent pay into but Congress is exempted from?
Why is the constant failure of government agencies and programs rewarded with: more government?
Why are our children held hostage to teacher’s unions?
Why, faced with the most severe financial crisis of our generation, are we talking about increasing taxes while there is no talk of deep cuts in government?
Peacock believes there are three common threads running through all the potential answers to these questions.
First. Money is power. But some who have had outrageous amounts of money have admitted that the power eventually becomes more important to them than the money. The actions that Congress and the Presidents have put into place over a long period of time show that money is very important to them. However, like the feudal lords of old, it is clear that power over their “serfs” is even more important.
The Second is an extension of the First. Power is an addiction. Those who have it want more and those who don’t have it may be obsessed by a desire for it. The “old boys club” in the highest ranks of the Executive and Legislative branches of our government are engaged in an incestuous relationship of power and shared privilege. The more they have the more they want no matter what the cost to the “serfs”.
The Third is the permission by the “serfs” for the “lords to indulge in the first two. Americans want their elected leaders to lead. They willingly give their trust and power to those they elect to office. Americans clearly will do this almost to a fault. However, when the “lords” get used to the power that has been transferred to them by the “serfs” it requires a major efforts to make the elected “lords” remember and understand that they are really supposed to be the “serfs”.
What do you think?
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