Thursday, May 6, 2010

King or no King?

In my my goal to write 5 minutes a day I can sometimes sit there with nothing to write, then there are days like today that give me so much to say that the only thing stopping my writing is earning a living and the clock.

I have been thinking a lot about the Founding fathers lately. It seems that we are going through one of those defining moments in history.

Just what do we want the government to be?

Opinions can be different and nobody has to "wrong".

The fundamental question, to me, is how much power over our day to day life do I want to give the "government".

There is no question we need an organized government, a government organized from the the local to the state to the National level.

I'm not ready to cede our national governance to an International government.

So how much government do we want in our daily lives?

Some people argue that the most efficient capitalistic country to day is China, an autocratic capitalism model.

If we had a King and an autocratic government system we could be much more efficient. You want to change health care, done. What's next?

Sorry, I have more questions than answers on this issue. Maybe it's time to re-read the Federalist papers and see what James Madison had to say?

Ding!!!! There goes the clock, time to move another project. Have a great day. JD

1 comment:

Liberty or Death said...

I'm more of a Thomas Jefferson fan. Autocratic capitalism and fascism are fairly similar. I think efficiency is something that changes in the perspective of time that you look at it. Something can seem very efficient from a day to day view only to be very inefficient when viewed over a year. Of course, I say this with the knowledge that you've got a little more perspective of time than I do.