The Northern Review

In the United States our governments exist as a result of the consent of the governed.  The consent is for the purpose of protection of the whole of the people and the individual rights of the people.  It seems our government may well be failing in this basic task of protection.  Look around.  What do you see?  You see cities which have become abandoned to such an extent thousands of houses have to be torn down because they are vacant and a danger to people.  You see a government which has taken on so many responsibilities and borrowed so much money that it is rapidly going broke. You see a government which has been taken over by those whose goals are to create and preserve a Government Party whose goals are to provide benefits that far exceed the ability to pay for the benefits to the workers who derive their incomes from government and those who have the power to join together to command private benefits as if they were rights.

Let us be honest.  Most of our leaders are people who have never had a real job or people who have never really excelled at a real job.  I recall a person who became a the United States Attorney in my town.  I knew him before he was selected.  He was never much of an attorney, hardly ever had tried a case, had no experience in the areas important to the work of the US Attorney.  But he did a passing job.  The people who did the daily work as lawyers, clerks, secretaries, paymasters, and so on, continued to do the daily work of the office.  Nothing changed,  Nothing new came about.  The people who did the work were not on the person who was the US Attorney. 

Come to think back on it, there were others who took the job over the years who were the same, whether Democrat or Republican, as the person I was thinking of when I started this bit.

I wonder what gives.  The job it seemed was a political prize.  It is a job which goes to one thought to be a Mr. Republican, or a Mr. Democrat.  (No women have been selected for the job in my town thus far.)