Posted by
KsReaganite on Thursday, September 17, 2009 10:28:26 PM
For many people, the opposition to the President’s healthcare reform agenda is one of principle buttressed by history: when a government bureaucrat is given even a trifling bit of additional authority, he will make sure that in time his power grows. That such power is often at the behest of noble intentions and good motives does not negate the historical evidence that, ultimately, the power of government is but a necessary evil for free societies. Long after the necessity of some function of government is gone, there will still be the bureaucracy that administered that purpose, but this time making up regulations simply to justify its existence.
President Reagan was right, “the closest thing we have to immortality in our time is a government bureaucracy.” And please, none of that sappy nonsense about how civil servants are underpaid, overworked, selfless denizens of virtue: neither empirical evidence nor personal experience backs up that sentimental image of a noble servant of the masses.
The question that the President and his cronies have failed to answer is ‘how many new jobs will be created for bureaucrats and their toady lawyers when your healthcare reform becomes the law?’ Almost every new law that passes Congress these days, seems to have one overarching goal at its core: make more Americans dependent upon the government for their daily bread, either by employing them directly in the government or making some regulation that restricts their ability to go about their productive lives.
Is this how free republics slowly transform into oligarchies and then descend into tyrannies ruled by a cult of the anointed?