I suggest reading "Why government doesn't work" by Harry Browne. Nice book and very correct in the domestic part, especially the list of measures that he would took if he would be a president. Kind of naive about isolationism policy though. Islamofascism tries to take over the whole world. If we don't fight Shariah law also all over the world then they still will come to destroy us here. Being nice to jihadists doesn't change their goals which is to kill all the infidels and take over the world. As the worst form of totalitarianism, islamofascism knows that the main obstacle to islamofascism is the beacon of freedom, America. And that's why they try to destroy America as a single remaining fortress of freedom in the world. Jihadis' accomplice in the White House does his best to destroy America too. No amount of appeasement, of dhimmitude, of submission will change the fact that destruction of America is the crucial objective of the world-wide jihad. It doesn't matter what we say or do– as long as America stays the freest country in the world, then it will be the main target of ALL the freedom-haters from soft Euro-totalitarians and harder communist/post-communist totalitarians to the worst totalitarians ever– islamofascists. Soft European totalitarians just envy us, more totalitarian regimes like China, Russia and Venezuela hate us and undermine our positions and the islamofascists wage the full-blown war against us using all the means at their disposal.
To mention once more just a few reasons why government never works:
a) All the processes in such complex systems in the dynamic stability state (such as life, economy, society and the like) with innumerable factors interacting in a real time and with indefinite numbers of possible outcomes THE ONLY WAY to optimize the process and the outcomes is the self-regulation with the tight feedback loop. The tighter the feedback loop is-the better tuned the process and the better outcomes are.
b) 300 million of Americans combined represent a huge wisdom of ages, of personal experiences, of individual responsibilites, of traditions and the habits of the decision making for themselves. Meanwhile any government consists of very few people who typically are narrow-minded specialists in a very narrow area but they have big and arrogant heads and the elitist attitude "know-it-all", so even a bunch of these "experts" possess a tiniest imaginable faction of the total knowledge and experiences of 300 million of Americans. Beside, those leitist are next to zero in practical matters, these absent-minded professors and mad scientists hardly know how to tie their shoes. All they can is eloquently using fancy words to show off. All Obama's teamsters (himself included) screw up their own finances and other affairs but have a nerve to claim they can "manage" our personal affairs better than we can?
c) government actions are based on coercion, they violate people's will and the decision making process, thus, people don't want to comply;
d) government's action have zero or minimal feed back, so they interfere with the self-regulation processes, disrupt and distort them, cause disbalances, suboptimal utilization of resources and in 100% of cases they worsen the outcome. That's why Jefferson observed that the good government is the one that governs as less as possible (because whatever government does– it does it wrong). Before the government's "civil rights" and "antidiscrimination" acts of the 60-s the gap between whites and blacks was narrowing, after them it started widening. The discrimination practices slowly but surely were being rooted out by the free market forces-after the acts the government perpetuated the discrimination merely changing the object of discrimination, creating reverse discrimination. The schools were much better but after nationalization the quality of education keeps dropping to new lows. The crime rates were much lower but after the government started "war on crime, war on drugs" the crime rates skyrocketed. Despite occasional accidents, armed households prevent majority of the violent crimes, but wherever the government disarms the law abiding citizens– the murder and other crime rates jumps to the skies.
e) government actually is interested not in solving problems but in worsening them. Imagine, all the problems are solved, there is no need in the government bureaucrats and government's budget any more– they are fired or at least deprived of power and money What happens if they as usually screw up? In the name of solving one problem they actually create 10 other problems, and then for "solving " created by the government itself problems it will grab from us more power and more money– they are in business! This perverse incentives to screw up counts too.
f) The only way government acts is by using coercion, mandates and controls, and when it sets up the mandates it also puts in charge a bureaucrat, a human being, who is prone to make mistakes (to err is human) and to be corrupted by invested in him/her powers. Power corrupts, the more power-the more currupted the government is, and no change of the players "for the honest ones" will whether not help at all or help only temporarily, until the angel in the bureaucratic chair has died or retired. You cannot rely on the subjective factors, you can only rely on the objective ones: if the government has nearly no power-then there will be nearly no corruption.
g) The government has a mind on its own, no matter what the minds of the building government "bricks" are, just as a crowd psychology has nothing to do with the psychology on the individuals in the crowd. No matter what your noble intention are when you try to solve a problem through the government, the government will start twisting, distorting and shifting you bill as soon as you submit it, and in order to pass it you will have to make so many compromises, to fill it with so much pork to get the votes that in the end you will not recognise your own proposition. But what happens after the passing bill is even worse because the unelected government bureaucrats will interprete, misuse and abuse your bill the what THEY want long after you are gone. It is still not the worst– the worst part is when the men in black, the judicial activists will start re-writing from the bench and re-intepreting your law to their liking until it becomes completely opposite from the intended one. And then the un-intended consequences hit: again, when the government interferes into the immensely complex salf-regulating processes, then it's "fixing problems" resembles the most a monkey "fixing" computer of a wall clock with the stick.
In short, there is nothing you can solve through the government. Whatever the government does-it does it wrong. Proposed benefits whether never materialize or the cost of them turns up prohibitively high or the unintended consequences by far outweigh the proposed benefits or a combination of the above. Government cure is always worse than the original ill. After the dust settles, we can see that the problems have multiplied rather than solved, we are worse off than before the government intervention, the consequences are completely unpredictable to the humble human being, and the only predictable thing is that as a result of ANY government intervention the government grabbed more power, more our money and our decision making rights. The government’s actions are always failure. That is if your criteria of a success are the stated goals of the government bill, law, mandate or any other intervention. But if you do know that all that emotional crap-wrap is just a trick to make sure no one will object the proposal (under the threat of being called a racist, a sexist, a cruel person and other names just to stiffle any possible opposition) but the REAL hidden agenda of ANY government’s intervention is just another power grab, to steal more of your money and decision making power, then the goals are achieved alright. Recently John Stessel published analysis that the government’s ADA (Americans with disability act) doesn’t work at all. Surprise, surprise. Noe of the government’s acts works– all that civil rights and anti-discrimination crap-wrap inevitably failed, the results of that government interventions still hurt America, but if you do objective analysis based of the facts and outcomes– for sure the people’s “progressive” enemies in the monopolized by them MSM will call you dirty names. Statists entice the short-sighted recipients of the “benefits” with some perks, which in the long run actually worsen their conditions and prevent their real steady improvement by Free Market forces. Government’s “solutions” are always “short term gain for long term pain”. Just check out the facts and read respectable researchers such as Thomas Sowelclass="underline" after “anti-discrimination” acts the gap between whites and blacks stopped narrowing (which it was doing before, slowly but steadily, due to the free market forces) and right away the gap started widening. On other hand, the self-regulation with the feedback loop, also known as the Free Market, is free of all the faults of the government. It is based on the objective laws of the nature, including human nature and laws of the market; it does not put in charge a human being inevitably prone to corruption and errors; it is THE ONLY WAY to optimize complex systems such as life, language, economy and society; and most importantly– IT IS THE ONLY WAY FOR A NATION TO SURVIVE. All based on the subjective totalitarianism systems are the dead end of civilization, they are doomed, they go extinct before our eyes in Europe, Japan, former USSR and the like. If you think about other countries where the demographic catastrophy has not materialized yet-it is coming. The birth rate is dropping even in the countries like Marocco, it's just a matter of time. As freer the market– the better, and in order to survive the country must be more than 50% based on the self-regulation, on the free (ideal case is 100% Free Market based country, where the only function of the government is SOME of the national defence, SOME of the forein affairs and SOME of the law and order. Even in these areas Free Market has a definite, important and evergrowing significance. Majority of the high tec defense products are created by the Free Market, private security companies such as Blackwater do a good job (as confirmed by the "progressive" MSM hatred towards them), armed population prevents over 75% of the crimes (in the Freer Market based states voting for the conservatives where the government is friendlier to the us, the people, and doesn't try to disarm us, the murder rate is 4 times lower than in the socialist states that voted for Obama and that just love disarming the people). Direct diplomacy people-to-people, including tourism, is much more preferable way of diplomacy than our-enemy-government to their-enemy-government foreign affairs.