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Given the passage of the Financial Reform bill and Obamacare, I thought it might be useful to step back and consider where we are headed.  We have now turned over two of the largest chunks of our economy to the government to run, for better or worse.  Government also yearns to serve us by taking over our energy sector but, if you believe Harry Reid, that’s off the table for the time being.  Those among us who believe that government is good while business is bad must be bursting with enthusiasm and happiness for the brave new world.

Now that we find ourselves at this point, let’s ask the most relevant question.  When government is tasked with providing important goods and services, how does it do? 

If there is anything to the criticism of government workers implied in the following statement, “[t]hat’s close enough for government work” can we realistically look forward to excellence in medical treatment for all?  Will government control of the financial sector mean that only bad ideas will be impeded and new ones, innovative ones which if developed would lead to the creation of wealth, will live and thrive? Will the setting loose of government’s imagination and energy overwhelm us with it’s active and effective brilliance?  I, perhaps in limited company given the fact that these things have been passed by the representatives of the people, am dubious.

I cannot say it any better than it has already been said by the noteworthy Richard Maybury, the so called Three Thousand Year Old Man.  I have been reading Mr. Maybury’s insights and ideas for some years now and generally find his logic compelling.  I believe that you will profit also, in wisdom at least, from the eight minutes it takes to view his video.

http://www.youtube.com/user/RichardMaybury#p/u/6/bP3Sfnp_ehw

Taking the liberty of paraphrasing Mr. Maybury, when government treats us like its wards, whose money and needs are to be carefully cared for but without the need of our input we are very unlikely to be pleased by the result.  The fact that the Obamacare and financial overhaul bills are over 2000 pages long and both provide for development of further regulations by the agencies charged with their implementation, makes it clear that their rules, not ours, will apply.  It’s as simple as this, we are now to be treated like children.  They’ve got our money and now they mean to “care for us.”

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