Tragedy of The Commons

This is a pretty standard concept and isn't new to me.  I'm putting it up in connection to our government.  Just replace the pasture in this example with the government and you get the same kind of results.  Nobody owns the government.  So, the government gets overused and abused, just like the pasture that gets overgrazed.  That's my theory.

This is not to suggest that somebody should own the government.  Only that the government isn't the solution.  Just making government bigger only makes the problems bigger.  That's due to this phenomenon of the tragedy of the commons.

You see, nobody seems to give a damn that the government is crapping out big time.  It is easy to rationalize too, based upon the systematic deception that promotes its continual overuse and abuse.  Nothing gets done about it because nobody recognizes or wants to recognize how it is going to impact us all.  Environmentalists like to talk about sustainability.  I am here to tell you that a big government is unsustainable because of the tragedy of the commons.