I guess I’m about as political as most people are. What I think is taxes should be low, government only need be in business to deliver the mail, roads and public transportation and whatever required social programs are needed to ensure that everyone can eat and have shelter.

Beyond that, I think medicare, business incentives and even socialized education aren’t strictly required. The problem is it’s impossible to keep government in check. Government propagates itself – if you give someone some power, then he or she will create new roles for expanded power. So instantly you get more government and more regulation.

So Obama and Huckabee won in Iowa, which I guess gives some talking heads (and strategists) interesting things to say. The only thing that would make me happy to hear is “We’re reforming the Constitution to make it work.” Because the U.S. Constitution has made it embarrassingly easy for people to get rich off government. To the point where they’ll go to war and bankrupt the nation to make themselves some money.

I think what’s happening in the U.S. now, with their current regime is a reflection of that. The U.S. Constitution was written so that the elite of society could manage the country while seemingly it’s for the people, by the people. No one knows who should be making the final call about – gulp – who the President should be, whether torture’s illegal, etc. etc.

The leaders of the U.S. can make and change rules at their whim, because enforcement of those rules is unclear.

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