The Government: Is it providing the services we pay for?

These days, the government has come to mind more often than I think is should.

The government is run almost like a business these days. There are the peons, managers, regional managers, etc, all the way up to the “CEO”, the president. It is much more complex than that, but I believe it follows along a similar model.

The other thing I'm looking at is that we, as a people, pay the government to render services for us. When I think like this, I realize that really, we're not getting what we are paying for. The government is removing our freedoms, yet they are demanding higher and higher payments to render services.

This country was founded with the idea of freedom. The Declaration of independence is what made this country, and is the document from which all of the others stem from – the Constitution, Bill of Rights, etc.

To quote the Declaration,

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security

The current government is in many cases, removing our freedoms, restricting the common people, and increasingly working to support companies instead of the People. The biggest part of my gripe today is this:

That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed

More and more often, it is not 'the governed' that are consenting to the rules, regulations, and laws that are passed by our huge, monolithic government – it is companies. The FDA is passing regulations on products which they have no jurisdiction over, such as natural products not designed by human hands. Also, they pass regulations supporting industry, not the people whose health and happiness is affected. There are so many departments and sections of the government that it is no wonder that one hand doesn't know what the other is doing.

I really think we need to address our government very soon. The government generally does not operate for the people with our consent, as they keep private sessions and closed doors. The common person can't give input. Our representatives may start off at childhood with honest aspirations, but are corrupted on the way, paid by special interest groups to support some agenda or another even if it is not moral (Money can buy them). More and more laws are passed with no input (or many times even knowledge) from the people. This needs to stop!