{"id":21949,"date":"2013-10-18T06:30:43","date_gmt":"2013-10-18T13:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/?p=21949"},"modified":"2015-10-18T16:59:53","modified_gmt":"2015-10-18T23:59:53","slug":"dont-look-for-grown-ups-in-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/dont-look-for-grown-ups-in-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t Look For Grown-Ups In Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fff.org\/explore-freedom\/article\/dont-look-for-grown-ups\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/images\/DoWhatISayBecause.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" alt=\"\" \/>FFF.org<\/a> | If you seek evidence, just look around. Politicians, from President Barack Obama, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, and House Speaker John Boehner on down, operate at a level of irresponsibility that we don\u2019t tolerate in children. It\u2019s the nature of government.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s start with the money politicians spend: Like children, they don\u2019t have to earn it. It comes to them without effort. But unlike children, they have others take it by force through taxation. If you don\u2019t believe me, tell the IRS \u201cno thank you\u201d the next time it calls for donations.<\/p>\n<p>If they aren\u2019t satisfied with the proceeds from taxation, politicians have unlimited power to borrow money, which makes government look less expensive than it is while sending the bill to future generations. Politicians make a show of imposing a limit on borrowing, but they can raise the limit at will, threatening dire consequences if they don\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>Behold the gross irresponsibility. The money keeps flowing to the politicians no matter what they do or how big and costly their blunders. Even if people knew how badly the political class screwed up, they couldn\u2019t cut them off without risking lives of misery and perhaps prison at the hands of the government\u2019s armed henchmen.<\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s even worse, because people untrained in the economic way of thinking will have difficulty tracing bad consequences to the politicians\u2019 bad decisions. If you\u2019re an unemployed unskilled worker, you may not realize that politicians who passed the minimum wage are responsible for pricing you out of a job. Similarly, if you\u2019d like to escape wage employment and work for yourself, you might not realize that politicians have placed a dozen tollgates on the road to self-employment as a favor to special interests.<\/p>\n<p>Tracing economic effects to their public-policy causes is no easy matter. It requires economic understanding, which most people lack. Politicians take advantage of this, such as when they blame rising consumer prices on greed rather than on their central bank\u2019s inflationary policies. They have a thousand ways to cover their tracks. <a href=\"http:\/\/fff.org\/explore-freedom\/article\/dont-look-for-grown-ups\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read Entire Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p>By Sheldon Richman<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FFF.org | If you seek evidence, just look around. Politicians, from President Barack Obama, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, and House Speaker John Boehner on down, operate at a level of irresponsibility that we don\u2019t tolerate in children. It\u2019s the nature of government. Let\u2019s start with the money politicians spend: Like children, they don\u2019t have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[294],"tags":[758],"class_list":["post-21949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}