Being on the Team

In theory, politicians are tasked with shepherding the “will of the people”, but it never happens.  Government is it’s own entity and those who work for government will tend to perpetuate it and make it grow even when it is against the “will of the people”.  Our campaign finance laws give us government leaders who will serve the large, consistent contributors.  They are allowed to become Governors and others who control our legislative agendas.  Legislators who don’t support the approved agenda are suppressed.  Every year we do “more of the same” and we allow government to waste $billions on programs that don’t work. Large wasteful bureaucracies lobby to ensure their self-perpetuation and discourage cost-saving initiatives that would improve their results.

Politics is subject to corruption when government assumes responsibilities it was not meant to handle.  When leaders allow government to do this, costs increase and results suffer.  Our free market system requires that consumers pay for whatever products and services they need, but when government begins to subsidize these, their price is corrupted by the subsidies. 

Healthcare, education and government itself are examples of what happens when the free market is not allowed to establish the prices.  These mistakes were made because Legislators were trained to not interfere with the agenda and stop these errors.  The US Constitution helped keep Legislators from passing unconstitutional laws until the 1870s, when leaders and their cabals went on a campaign to “protect” undeveloped lands in the Western US States.  Voters went along with the scam and the first unconstitutional act was passed and signed into law without the Amendment it would have required.

Being “on the team” was one of the behavioral control mechanism that allowed our politicians to wander off the Constitutional ‘reservation’ and destroy our country. We have a lot of unconstitutional laws on the books that need to be repealed. This would mean the closing of federal departments, agencies and programs that are harmful, irrelevant and unsustainable.

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader