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The solution is simple and not at all new...stop making the structure so top heavy. The infatuation with making the Federal gov larger and larger, more and more
by chiefalchemist 5y ago
The solution is simple and not at all new...stop making the structure so top heavy. The infatuation with making the Federal gov larger and larger, more and more powerful...is great for corporations and corruption...but increasingly it sucks for the rest of us.
Centralization was effective to get out of the Great Depression. It was again effective post WW II when economies of scale worked well. But now? We're a long way from that. We need agility and flexibility. Trying to force feed the square peg of 20th Century one size fits all into 21st Century dynamics round hole isn't working.
I'm not suggesting the fed gov be dissolved. Only that we stop overlying on it and stop feeding it (i.e., taxes).
- nomorecommas 5y ago> I'm not suggesting the fed gov be dissolved. Why not though?
- chiefalchemist 5y agoBecause it is a union. And there are things (e.g., a reasonable defense) that make sense. The idea is relatively sound. But the current execution is 20+ yrs out of style.
- nomorecommas 5y agoI used to think like that too. See you in 20 years or so, if the "union" lasts that long.
- chiefalchemist 5y agoIt might not. And perhaps that's the intention? That is, we see what is not working, and we double down again and again on that same dysfunctional "solution". On top of that the nature of the context has changed. The 20th Century was about efficiency and massive scale. On the other hand, the 21st Century requires iteration and agility. Yet we insist on using a 20th Century tool for a 21st Century job. That's not working. But, again, perhaps that's the intention. The Union weakens. Central command gets stronger. And our basic rights and liberty disolve - slowly but surely.