CAUTION:
GOVERNMENT
IS ADDICTIVE

Government programs have an undesireable effect on people. They cause people to change their behaviors to use more government services. These changes seem to be in the form of an addiction, and cause many of the problems in the world today. Here are some of the ways this happens:

  1. Effects on people:
    1. People worship government. It does not merit their reverence.
    2. People expect government to be omnipotent. But there are limits to what government can do.
    3. People expect government to be supercompetent. But there is no special knowledge that only government officials know.
    4. People expect government to have an unlimited supply of money. But government would destroy the economy if it created unlimited amounts of money, because all of the money would become worthless. Work is required to create wealth.
    5. People think that, with all of the money government has, it should spend some of it on their worthless projects.
    6. People expect government to be able to control the economy. It can't.
    7. People expect government to take care of them. It can't do that without destroying the economy.
    8. People expect government to fix every problem they have.
    9. People expect government to rid them of everything that annoys them. But since everything annoys at least one person, government granting this would rid the world of everything.
    10. People expect government to enforce their own aesthetic beliefs upon others.
    11. People expect government to make the world super-safe. This is impossible.
    12. People expect government to provide them with all kinds of entertainment, arts, sports, and recreation.
  2. Effects on the poor:
    1. Poor people worship government. It does not merit their reverence.
    2. Poor people expect government to pay for their needs.
    3. Government expects poor people who get jobs to keep them, and prevents them from obtaining aid again if they lose those jobs.
    4. Poor people are afraid to take jobs, because they can't get government aid again if those jobs disappear.
    5. Government aid rules prevent poor people from keeping their houses.
    6. Ireresponsible government taxation and spending throw people out fo work.
    7. Politicians promise to "fix" the economy. But even though they think they know how, they don't.
  3. Effects on politicians:
    1. Politicians originally want to get rid of the corruption in government. But once they are in office, they become addicted to the power they have, and then they add to the corruption instead of removing it.
    2. Once they get in office, politicians too often think they are somehow superior to other people, and then they behave that way.
    3. Politicians who want to please everyone start squandering tax money to pleas gropups who want money for nonessential purposes.
    4. Politicians in office think more about being re-elected than they thinkl about doing a good job. Too many of them waste tax money on unnecessary projects to win votes in the next election.
    5. Too many politicians also worship government, and believe in a supercompetent omnipotent government. Their beliefs are doomed to failure, but before their schemes fail, they do a lot of damage to other people.
    6. Most politicians believe in Keynesian Economics, even though it has never worked when it was tried. But when they try it, they do a lot of damage to the economy while trying to fix it.
    7. Not only do most politicians believe in the discredited Keynesian Economics, but they also require the schools to teach it.
    8. Many politicians believe that their election to office somehow gives them special knowledge, without any training. They think they are experts in economics, traffic control, psychology, and other disciplines that normally require a college degree.
    9. Too many politicians worship the arts, and squander tax money on them.
    10. Too many politicians want to do more to help people, and then hurt them by overtaxing them to be able to afford to do more to help.
    11. Too many politicians love to create special events, closing roads and disrupting business, justto provide useless entertainment.
  4. Effects on newsmen:
    1. Too many newsmen worship government and politicians.
    2. Too many newsmen see many troubling situations in life. They then want these situations controlled, and so call on government to become a burden on the lives of others.
    3. Too many newsmen worship the arts, and demand that government must squander tax money on them.
    4. Too many newsmen expect government to be omnipotent. But there are limits to what government can do.
    5. Too many newsmen expect government to be supercompetent. But there is no special knowledge that only government officials know.
    6. Too many newsmen expect government to have an unlimited supply of money. But government would destroy the economy if it created unlimited amounts of money, because all of the money would become worthless. Work is required to create wealth.
    7. Too many newsman worship the arts, and want government to squander tax money on them.
    8. Too many newsmen want to do more to help people, and see government as the only handy source of money to do so.
    9. Too many newsmen want government to create special events, closing roads and disrupting business, just to provide useless entertainment.

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