Vanishing Government
March 20, 2017 at 8:08 p.m.
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On Nov. 19, 1863, President Lincoln said that to ensure the survival of America's representative democracy: that “a government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.” Nevertheless, a government of the people, by the people and for the people is vanishing, or has vanished from America.
Let me explain. As outlined in the opening preamble of the United States Constitution, it was the Founding Fathers' intent to have the federal government perform six fundamental functions. An excerpt from the U.S. Constitution that best expresses these purposes reads, "We the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.” Unfortunately, in order to illustrate my point in this letter, of the six fundamental functions of government, I am only going to talk about the function of government to promote the “general welfare.”
Yes, one the purposes of the U.S. government per the Constitution is to promote the general welfare of its people. Hence, providing for the welfare of the general public is intended to be a basic goal of government. In other words, it is the role of the government to provide the American people with services and regulations that are for the “public good.”
However though, as I mentioned beforehand, we no longer have a government of the people, by the people and for the people. Instead, what we have in this country is a plutocracy, a system of the rich, by the rich and for the rich. With this new system comes a new terminology, and a vocabulary of deception. An “act of mercy” in this new system is meant to mean anything which helps the rich. An “act of compassion” in this new system means anything which concerns the sufferings of the rich. These parasites have no concern for the general welfare or our society. Their only concern is what they can extract from it. A government of the people, by the people, and for the people is an enemy to them.
Our government is vanishing, along with any concern for the “general welfare” of our society. As can clearly be demonstrated with the plutocrats’ new health care act, and budget cuts to social services. Their “acts of mercy and compassion” of which they talk about, therefore is their new vocabulary of deception. It is acts of “mercy and compassion for the rich.” It is akin to George Orwell’s doublethink. Again, it is the role of a functioning government to provide the American people with services and regulations that are for the public good. Do not let these parasites fool you, money is not the issue. The general welfare of society is of no concern to them. It is just the way their psychotic brains are wired.
Bennie Hively
Warsaw, via email
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On Nov. 19, 1863, President Lincoln said that to ensure the survival of America's representative democracy: that “a government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.” Nevertheless, a government of the people, by the people and for the people is vanishing, or has vanished from America.
Let me explain. As outlined in the opening preamble of the United States Constitution, it was the Founding Fathers' intent to have the federal government perform six fundamental functions. An excerpt from the U.S. Constitution that best expresses these purposes reads, "We the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.” Unfortunately, in order to illustrate my point in this letter, of the six fundamental functions of government, I am only going to talk about the function of government to promote the “general welfare.”
Yes, one the purposes of the U.S. government per the Constitution is to promote the general welfare of its people. Hence, providing for the welfare of the general public is intended to be a basic goal of government. In other words, it is the role of the government to provide the American people with services and regulations that are for the “public good.”
However though, as I mentioned beforehand, we no longer have a government of the people, by the people and for the people. Instead, what we have in this country is a plutocracy, a system of the rich, by the rich and for the rich. With this new system comes a new terminology, and a vocabulary of deception. An “act of mercy” in this new system is meant to mean anything which helps the rich. An “act of compassion” in this new system means anything which concerns the sufferings of the rich. These parasites have no concern for the general welfare or our society. Their only concern is what they can extract from it. A government of the people, by the people, and for the people is an enemy to them.
Our government is vanishing, along with any concern for the “general welfare” of our society. As can clearly be demonstrated with the plutocrats’ new health care act, and budget cuts to social services. Their “acts of mercy and compassion” of which they talk about, therefore is their new vocabulary of deception. It is acts of “mercy and compassion for the rich.” It is akin to George Orwell’s doublethink. Again, it is the role of a functioning government to provide the American people with services and regulations that are for the public good. Do not let these parasites fool you, money is not the issue. The general welfare of society is of no concern to them. It is just the way their psychotic brains are wired.
Bennie Hively
Warsaw, via email
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