Posted on 06/03/2007 4:19:13 PM PDT by Copernicus
If you want to measure the quality of honesty and justice in your federal government, just read your tax instructions. Or read the list of campaign contributions to your Congressperson. Or look up how many former Congresspersons are lobbyists for foreign governments and corporations.
Take a close look at the current raft of aspirants to the Presidency. Remember, we are not electing the most popular and best-liked to be senior class president, or even the Most Valuable Player, but the occupant of the most powerful office in all of human history. How many of them have shown any really extraordinary wisdom or moral gravitas, or indeed talent for anything other than self-promotion? How many have actually done anything significant to truly benefit fellow human beings?
In fact, at least a couple of them ought to be in jail—but never will be.
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Best regards to all
“Remember, we are not electing the most popular and best-liked to be senior class president, or even the Most Valuable Player, but the occupant of the most powerful office in all of human history.”
Given public expectations for the office, no wonder none of the candidates are credible... since it is manifest that none of them are God.
The leviathan that has been created through excessive public expectations, with indifference to the details of how those expectations might be achieved, has resulted in an office that is impossible to fill with a human being competent to perform well in the position.
Less attention to the electoral “horse race” and more attention to how leviathan can be put on a crash diet, and reined in, would be a more profitable investment of effort. Until the powers and expectations of the office are brought back within the bounds of the constitution, and trimmed to the point where a human being can competently handle the work, the squabble for control of the helm of the ship of state is an activity for mad fools choosing between buffoonish claimants to deity.
Honesty? Justice? The Federal Government??? Uh...all I can think of is that ancient Etyptian ritual using a feather as a counterbalance.
What's amazing is that millions of people want to increase the size, scope, reach, appetite, and cost of that Frankenstein's monster! P.T. Barnum was right!
Closing in on 200 pages of bullshit for the individual 1040 last year. That ought to say it all as to the integrity of the tax system, the IRS, and the scam they enforce on us peons every year.
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