18 USC 1001: it is a felony to lie to a employee of the federal government but it is no crime at all for them to lie to the citizens. So, the government gives itself a pass and holds citizens to a standard of conduct it will not honor itself. We saw this last week in the prideful answers the outgoing IRS Commissioner gave in the Congressional hearing.
At the very moment he gets to say “I don’t know” when asked pointed questions, somewhere in the country his own tax auditors would be fired if they gave a similar pass to a citizen whose tax returns they were auditing.
So, we now have a government where high officials give each other a pass for outrageous behavior, and we have a government that can print or borrow all the money it needs to function. We have a government that is increasingly disconnected from the taxpayers because it makes its own money. This is Leviathan, a government of few limits. It is attempting to secure the citizen in a cage. We must put government back in the chains of the Constitution before it is too late.
18 USC 1001: it is a felony to lie to a employee of the federal government but it is no crime at all for them to lie to the citizens.
That needs to change.
The only people more self-serving than today’s politicians, are the people who voted for them.