“Government is the problem. People are the solution, “so Sharron Angle claims in her latest commercial. This is the all-too-familiar refrain first foisted upon us by Ronald Reagan, the Hollywood actor cum president. The statement in Angle’s commercial makes little sense; it is illogical. I wonder if she has even bothered to read the Constitution, the venerated document that both sides of the political debate exploit . “Government is the problem. People are the solution.” How does that work exactly, I wonder.
One could assert that that is precisely what our founding fathers did—they created a solution. The people created a government to, among other things, resolve problems. Isn’t that what the Declaration of Independence was all about? Didn’t the people define a problem (tyranny from King George) and offer a resolution by getting on with the business of creating republic democracy?
The people formed our current government as a solution, so what is she talking about? For example here’s the first paragraph or Preamble of the Constitution (note the people part):
We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America
The government is the solution and yet she wants to end it, I suppose. That part is not all that clear to me. It is all the rage from the GOP to mindlessly assert that the government is the problem, until, of course, there’s a big problem and we need to government to resolve it. Take for example BP. Do you really think that a gaggle of regular citizens sitting on the Gulf beach could honestly resolve the environmental crisis BP has created? What would these people do without the support of the government? What could they do? Nothing.
“Government is the problem. People are the solution.” This profoundly illogical statement abuts against her own career ambitions. Why does she want to be “part of the problem” by becoming Sin City’s senator? According to her own logic, she has everything she needs to resolve problems—she is a person. She needs one more person to create “people” and then she can get on with the business of….well, that I am not sure of, but I assume it has everything to do with creating a hostile environment for the poor and working class and extending benefits to the wealthiest among us. After all, those of you on unemployment are simply too lazy to find a job, the pension-receiving Angle thinks. Interesting Christian-values there. Didn’t Jesus chill with the poor and wretched among us? God apparently told Angle to “fuck the poor.”
If, as the GOP and in this case Angle, really believe their own logic here, government is bad, why do republicans want to be part of it? To kill it, I guess, much like a parasite kills its host. Honestly, if the government is so broken and evil, do something else? Be the people and solve the problem so you can quit ducking questions and interviews.
Sorry Angle, while at times cumbersome and frustrating bureaucratic, the government is the people and often the solution—there are thousands of examples to list. It derives its power from the people, you see. Hence the voting thing. It is called an indirect democracy and the people elected are supposed to represent the people, (not corporate America) because it would be nearly impossible for a direct democracy given the 350,000,000 or so people living in the US. The government is the people and thus the solution. You and your ilk should read the Constitution and particularly its Preamble a little more carefully. There are six reasons listed in the Preamble for creating the Constitution. See above paragraph. “Promote the general welfare” is one of the reasons listed for the purpose of the Constitution, and if you believe that people are responsible for that and not the government, please do us a favor and drop out. Perhaps, God will call on you to do that. Explain how you plan to “Promote the general welfare,” Angle and don’t offer illogical and lame refrains about how “government is bad” and “people are good.” Government is in the business of promoting the welfare of its citizens, so says the founding fathers. So government is the solution and some people, Angle, Tea Partiers, etc., are really the problem.
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