Bad government

I wrote before that we are being herded like sheep.  The government is full of wolves and we, the people, are the sheep.  There's not a lot that protects us from the wolves anymore.  We, for the moment at least, still have freedom of speech, but the government may be working overtime in order to restrict that as much as they can.  Take away freedom of speech, start jailing people without due process, and disarm them, and pretty soon you are left with a totalitarian government.

If the government was faced with security threats and with no other means of securing itself, one may be willing to understanding about some of this.  But what if the government is just plain incompetent and corrupt?  It is only protecting itself from a justifiably angry populace that is sick and tired of the government's failures and dishonesty.

I've written constantly about solutions here because I think the solutions exists for our problems.  Yet there is so little interest it seems in actually doing anything constructive about the problems.  Hence the debt negotiations fiasco during the summer.  The recent failure to come to an agreement just cements that failure all the more. What we ended up with is a government that is growing just as fast as before and running up the debts just as fast as before.  Nothing useful has been accomplished.

I write about space, and about how this government insists upon spending billions on useless activities while ignoring and suppressing other ideas that may actually be helpful.  We will spend billions, for example, on a new rocket, which most likely never get off the ground.   But we won't spend peanuts on ideas that might be revolutionary.  The idea of getting liquid oxygen from the edge of space isn't even new, but it could work.  Any attempt to do this though will likely be blocked.  You got to have that heavy lift rocket even though refueling in space would make such rockets unnecessary.  Any government that suppresses the good and promotes the bad is itself not so good.

I write about energy, yet there could be a new form of energy which only needs to be recognized in order for it to start being used.  Even if the government granted a patent for the E-cat, and the E-cat was a fraud, what harm would be done?  Yet the government refuses even to consider cold fusion patents.  Meanwhile, the government also blocks the XL Keystone pipeline, which would employ thousands and make the country more energy secure.  The Congress gets a solution, but wait!  It stops in mid stream because of some political disagreement that hasn't got anything to do with anything.  But that isn't all.  We have all the energy we need from new ways to get natural gas, but a process called fracking, which has been used for decades, is now all of a sudden unacceptable.  What gives?  Does the government hate its own people?


Who protects the interests of the people?  And if the people aren't interested enough to protect themselves, what's to become of us?  I don't think you can trust the media.  They lie, to put it bluntly.  The government and the media just seem to work hand in hand in making sure nobody knows enough to do anything useful about anything.  People, according to the polls, are aware that something's wrong, but who do you believe and who do you trust to get things back on track?  The usual sources of moral authority have lost their credibility, so where do you go now?  It seems that we are all cut loose from our moorings.  How to get it back?