Did Reagan "Get It Wrong"
Reagan, known more for his cunning and "affability" than intellect; famously declared "Government is the Problem"! He might better have said Governments Are The Problem! With a little thought, we can learn, that the recent maneuver against the Federal Government President Obama was elected to lead in 2012, has collided with one or more of the shadow governments that have grown within our federal government since the end of World War II. President Eisenhower named the first one: The Military-Industrial Complex https://www.google.com/#q=the+military+industrial+complex. President Truman, in 1973, called the CIA a "government of its own". http://irapilgrim.mcn.org/war13.html.
Over the more than five decades that have elapsed since, Congress, the Executive Branch, and the Supreme Court, have each established large constituencies that act like "governments". They are very large, autonomous, separately funded, have competing agendas, and cannot be managed. No Chief Executive of the federal government, or federal court system, or the separate Cabinet Agencies can "corral" these competing "governments"; because they each have their separate access to funding through connections within Congress and/or through special treatment within our Tax Code. These several "governments" have formed a multi-headed hydra, like the one in Ancient Mythology. This monster is real, however. HUD, Agriculture, Big Oil, Finance Industries; they all compete against "the people" for "services" of the Federal Government. The Repoobs call this Federal Spending, but, will do nothing to get this spending under control! Ted Cruz is using this as a tool to demolish the Federal Government (after he gets elected to "lead" it!).
The central link to all of it is Congress. The House of Representatives, is the source of their money. The battles we see raging is really over who gets the money. Race, class, greed, class hatred; are all tools our Media use to keep us uninformed and misled. We're living in this insanity as a result.
Each Administration, starting with Eisenhower, has seen some department of the federal government break loose and become its own "government". President Kennedy complained bitterly that he lacked the power to get "Langley" to change its road sign.
The phenomenon has spread to the various state governments, and progressed to a point where many have effectively "seceded" from our federal system. Obamacare is a case in point. Twenty-six states have seized on the law's "opt-out" provision; betting they could "break" the law in the process. Texas, always a secession-leaning "lone star", is blaring a siren song to those young, white, Millenials, who can't make it in the stronger economies of California, Washington, New York, and other wealthier states; to come to Texas and learn how to live large while living poor; off the backs of their "cheap labor".
Stay Vigilant! Keep this in mind while you watch the maneuvers of the next 90 days.
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