Entropy of our Government

    We have watched the slow expansion of corruption, by a direct proportion the amount of resources wasted by the government has become too large for this nation's ability to produce.
As it stands other countries will use our irrationally inflated dollar to buy businesses and resources to export to their home country. We soon will not be able to afford the promises we made in previous generations. Is there any way to reverse this coarse, or at least cushion the fall?

    Short answer is no. We cannot stop corruption because its a product of human nature. The years that roll by and the complexity of the Federal government gives plenty of weak points for which people can exploit for their own gain. "chaos increases infinitely in a closed system." The corruption and some less than nefarious waste will continue to grind away at the working portions of the government until no service can be reasonably be afforded. The only way this could be changed is by frequently changing the components of the government. This includes people, the channels of authority, and the final product itself.

    What makes this so hard to turn around is that you must trust the government to police itself. No person or group of persons can ever place pressure on the government. The elected officials themselves are only a component of a larger entity and frequently that elected official is protected from public scrutiny by the power of office they preside over. We can only look on the outside and guess the process that goes on. Furthermore the only real penalty we can deliver as a voting public is withholding our vote from them. Our taxes are taken by force provided by law and arms, from that money they can purchase services from the private sector that they need to operate.

    History is written by the victors. Obviously the Washington elite will not be the victors, they have taken too greedily and have gotten to comfortable with their authority. So it will be up to us the people that inherit this broken country to record its fall. We must be honest with ourselves as to how we got here and lose the ego but keep the anger so that the lessons provided will be accurate and useful for when we come to rebuild. We should remind ourselves that the power must constantly change the hands. We must go to great pains to make sure that political players are too easy to dispose of when they fail to meet needs of their constituents.