The Parasites Elect Governments

Nowadays the basic business model of government is to keep order, protect campaign contributors and lure supporters with the promise of other peoples' money. The game plan of the typical citizen is even simpler: to be on the receiving end, and not at the paying end. Over time, more and more of them get into the receiving position. And the whole society becomes more costly, and more corrupt.

In its naked form, government is not evil; it is merely a self- interested parasite, like a bank or automobile lobbyist. Its main value comes from its ability to elbow out other parasites. Of course, the typical citizen is no saint either. Instead, he is merely a parasite in the larval stage. If he is lucky enough or cunning enough, he could grow into a parasite himself. The citizen, generally, doesn't mind being lied to and robbed - just so long it is by someone he elected, or at least by someone whom local involvement put in place.

In the United States, entire industries now operate as wards of the state. They may have too little capital. Or, their operations may be too costly. Or, their products may be simply out-of-date and unattractive. Still, government keeps them going - even at the cost of at the expense of competitors. And the money doesn't only go to business. Cities stay solvent only by the grace of federal government grants. Whole sections of the population depend on government - including 34 million who draw their rations directly from the federal food stamp program. The spectacle is breathtaking and alarming at the same time - like an old auto bus on a mountain road, with freighted passengers clinging to the hinges. The old rusted coach could tip over at any time, but which politician would tell a voter to get off in time?

The role of government is neither one of prosperity nor plausibility, more the role of protection of the pests and parasites. They will keep paying them off and carrying them along, until the bus runs off the road.

Government is a profoundly conservative, parasite- protecting enterprise. It cannot draw forth the future - it has no idea what the future will be. Instead, all it can do is to try to recover the past. That's the idea of this 'recovery', to try to coddle, protect and pay-off yesterday's success stories. From the Banks, Wall Street to the car industry, and welfare, governments attempt to prevent natural correction.

Political arguments result in a stimulus package that will do enormous damage to the economy. The idea is simple, just have the government write everyone a rebate check, and these rebate recipients will spend most of the money and create enough demand to pull the economy out of its recession. With a little luck, the people who supply the rebate recipients with their newly demanded products will also spend part of their added income on yet more products, and so on and so forth until the full effect of the rebate is multiplied manifold and provides a much greater and much larger needed boost to the economy.
But there’s also collateral damage that few understand or don’t care about. If the economy worsens and when their political sensors become alarmed, governments up the dose, and nobody knows how far this vicious cycle will take people further down into the drain.

Governments want to stay in power, as society is a democracy – in which the majority counts- they consequently create a culture of parasites to be re-elected. Instead of intervening less and letting people taking care of themselves first, and only assist the really needed ones.

It is clear that governments are over man-powered organizations, lacking insight, knowledge and motivation. Complacency - like what happens within the management of GM – finally it should bankrupt them too.

If politicians are not personally accountable and responsible for their deeds, we end up with what we daily experience –incompetence-! An old rule applied by former President of the US Andrew Jackson, (1829 – 1837) should become rule again in the White House and Government.


"Government duties could be "so plain and simple" that offices should rotate among deserving applicants."