Nature Abhors All Monopolies

The Private Sector Runs the Federal Government

What do I know if I don’t know myself?

Now, I realize that this blog is just my existential habitat – a foray for indulgent thought – to be; to think; to deliver; and to exist.

Das is est, meine heute fruende – that’s it. I can’t do any better than I can do – I can’t make the world perfect; but, I can make my life perfect. There are too many variables outside my life that I have no control over – but, nevertheless, that upsets me, immensely.

It is the team that matters – not one person. And, I can’t stand when I come across something, some situation, some person that is disingenuous – even if for a moment (for that is my nature).

I want my friends and my family to be happy and, more importantly, safe and good. But, I realize that happiness is a personal choice.

But, now, we are at an exigent historical crossroad, where our status of being a Super Power is slowly ebbing away by ridiculous expenditures. (China will implode through environmental degradation and Russia will implode through corruption and the same).

Nonetheless, do you think that it is okay for an EPA executive to spend $80,000 on a 4’ by 6’ marble slab imported from Italy for an office nook? This is only one gross example. There are so many other instances of Government wastage on these and grander proportions.

Simply put, the private sector and political interests now run the Government. There are so many expectant companies, groups, and people expecting pay days previously received – that the Federal Government will implode.

IT WILL IMPLODE.

So, ultimately, there will be a global vacuum. And, who do you think will be there to take over? Russia or China?

I’m not a politician; I’m not an economist. But, I do know one thing – when there are multiple pressures put on one system – the system eventually implodes. Because:

Nature abhors all monopolies – Leonardo de Vinci

But, on a larger level, the problem is endemic – a lack of ethics envelopes our culture – whether it is a mortgage officer encouraging someone who can’t afford to buy a house to buy when the market is hot (when they know that their own client will go bankrupt within 2-12 months); whether it is Bernanke saying that “the big banks are too big to fail” (hence the bailout at taxpayer expense); whether it is a corporate schmuck eking out his own piddly territory in one department by kissing ass instead of performing, etc.

By all means – KISS ASS AND LOSE YOURSELF.

Alternatively, do the right thing? Perhaps one will find oneself even if by a wisp or a tether of integrity.

Cheers,

HippoParamus

Source: http://hippoparamus.blogspot.com/2010/08/nature-abhors-all-monopolies.html