Obamacare, Big Brother Papering the Poor & The Death of 18th Century American Ideals

Obamacare's invasive tracking of the nation's poor with 50 states of bureaucracies out-of-phase with each other can tend to make one think that America is dead and Big Brother alive and well. Alternatively the population density of the nation and globalization of the economy through deregulation have made many of the criteria of the past politically speaking obsolete. Intelligent regulation is good, dumb designs of regulation created to promote bureaucratic power is bad.

It might be possible to adapt the nation's political paradigm to some better future state of being I would hope. The euthanasia of U.S. economic independence and sovereignty through deregulation of banks, mortgage trading and globalization might be reversed by competent politicians some day-in a real political dream act making even the southern border secure.

I wrote a modest post on how deregulation can mean loss of sovereignty. In the 18th century the founders hadn't a need to be concerned with how traders in London on the Footsie would react live to the price of farm goods on the Chicago Exchange instantly. Neither had they to be concerned about home mortgages bought and sold as commodities with derivatives, or even with deregulation so far as to allow a hundred million Chinese Red Army members to rent vacation property in Nebraska or fight-jet space at Reagan National-that is a logical extrapolation of deregulation.

Adam Smith's concept of free market economic with just competition governing them wasn't intended to be applied to government in general. Corporations are highly regulated preponderantly rather than anarchic ensembles of personnel doing their own thing. The business of government is the business of setting parameters and criteria that promote business activity that serve the best interests of the citizens including environmental concerns.

The United States has had mostly incapable leadership since Reagan-Bush. Two or three good Presidents in a row can make as much of a difference as two or three less capable ones, just as in the Roman Republic and Empire the leadership mattered much. If the United States continues upon ineffective economic and environmental courses  running up debt it could spell more trouble ahead. Creative solutions to those challenges are possible, however the failure to find good leadership or respect it are classical problems with democracy (eg. Aristotle's 'Politics'.