Drugs and porn are not the government's business. They do this to grow and to constantly increase their power over us and our $$.
The war on terror is something else, although they mis-name that on purpose. We'll never win that war unless we admit and understand who we're fighting.
It is the job of government to protect the citizens from attack, domestic or foreign. I don't mean we can give up the 2nd amendment and rely on them for our personal safety. But rather that they should be working to break up gangs, put away violent offenders and so on. They do this VERY poorly.
And they should be doing what is necessary to defend us against foreign attack.
In this they are nearly useless.
I read about agency turf battles, hoarding of intelligence and just general incompentence.
The one duty they have to the citizens, they fail at.
I read about government and Business collusion (the companies care only about tapping China's huge markets and they bribe government to go along) to sell our latest and most secret technology to China and it makes my hair stand up.
China's strategy is to develope post-nuclear super weapons that will render us and our weapons as helpless as was Japan against our atomic bomb. There seems to be a conspiracy of silence about such new weaponry and those who try to speak of this are ridiculed or ostracized into silence.
I am pro-business and for trade, but libertarian theory falls short on handling this kind of thing.
They're pretty good at harassing Martha Stewart, though.
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