reprint of article I wrote in 2009 called "Thoughts on Government"

Though I wrote this when people were suffering the most from "The Great Recession" most of what I wrote about here is still true today which is very unfortunate for Americans and the whole world.

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Thoughts on Government

Thursday, October 29, 2009

Thoughts on Government

I was exploring in my mind different forms of government today.

It seems like the United States has fallen to greed which makes democracy more and more irrelevant because regulations for corporations and banking institutions are not happening. So people with good credit who were paying 8 or 9% interest are now socked with 30% interest or more. Since government isn't moving fast enough to protect citizens from this gouging I began to think of more useful forms of government.

When designing a form of government it appears that checks and balances and human rights seem to be the most important things to consider.

Remember, I'm only thinking out loud about this because I now believe that our U.S. Government has been so overtaken by corporations and big money and lobbyists that even someone like Obama can't do much to save the common people of the U.S. from the frauds perpetrated against the common people of our nation.

The way I see what just happened in the last few years is that a few at the top saw the changes coming in the world and just tried to skim all they could before the economies of the U.S. and Europe collapsed in a new Great Depression. I believe this is still happening through the banks and lending institutions worldwide and the common people are still getting screwed. So Those who still have jobs will be more likely to lose everything through interest gouging of the common people.

So, I was thinking it is time to start thinking about a better system so that there doesn't have to been some sort of revolution in the U.S.

People are getting more and more upset in the U.S. The last civil war was in 1860 so it would really take a lot to make people revolt again. However, on the far right and on the far left many are really angry right now in the U.S. and around the world. And to make matters worse even those in the middle are pretty angry and scared right now as well.

The problem, I believe is misplaced anger. It is a lot like people sitting in the sun in a hot car in the sun. They might be talking about something and going along with their lives and suddenly they find themselves getting angrier and angrier until finally someone says. "Hey. We're getting angry because it is getting too hot in the car and we either need to get out of the car or open the windows. However, the human race is only at the angry part and has NOT clearly defined what is wrong yet.

If I were to define what the problems are they would be:

Global Warming
World overpopulation
scarcity of food
irregular or low rainfalls or droughts
dwindling petroleum reserves worldwide

However, until enough of the people of earth understand what is really going wrong they will be misdirected and many will starve and die as a result.

And both governments and corporations function with the sure knowledge that: "There's a new sucker born every minute."

So, the best thing you can do is to educate yourself so you can protect yourself and your families from governments, corporations and people trying to take advantage of you in every way and who are trying to steal everything from you both directly and indirectly.