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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.

Most of the press is in league with government or with the status quo.

In addition to their power over government based on government financing and personal influence bankers could steer governments in ways they wished them to go by other pressures.

The honest truth is that if this government were to propose the massacre of the first-born it would still have no difficulty in getting it through the Commons.

I am the government.

If indeed a firearm were more dangerous to its possessors than to potential aggressors would it not make sense for the government to arm all criminals and let them accidentally shoot themselves? Is this absurd? Yes and yet the government of course is arming criminals.

The Founders recognized that Government is quite literally a necessary evil that there must be opposition between its various branches and between political parties for these are the only ways to temper the individual's greed for power and the electorates' desires for peace by submission to coercion or blandishment.

The government for example has determined that black people (somehow) have fewer abilities than white people and so must be given certain preferences. Anyone acquainted with both black and white people knows this assessment is not only absurd but monstrous. And yet it is the law.

It is not the constitutional prerogative of the Government to determine needs.

Our government needs to adopt a pro-market agenda that doesn't pick winners and losers but it invites competition and it levels the playing field for everyone.