Yesterday, I discussed how greed trumps racism in the free market, where people would rather make money than ban potential customers based on skin color. It is only because of government that Jim Crow Laws were in place, otherwise they would have been called Jim Crow Business Policies. In any case, the free market was designed with the sovereign individual’s interests in mind, where a productive individual benefits not only himself but those around him.
However, this is not the case when you are a member of the parasite class. The parasite class is the class of people who work for the government in some capacity, usually in a market intrusive role, and provide next to no benefit to the people they are suppose to serve. The reasons for this could be anything, but most of the time it is simply greed and selfishness.
Remember how the SEC was caught with senior members just looking at Internet porn all day? Well, it seems this isn’t the only regulatory agency that was doing this sort of thing:
Employees of a federal agency that regulates offshore drilling—including some whose duties included inspecting offshore oil rigs—accepted sporting-event tickets, meals, and other gifts from oil and natural-gas companies and used government computers to view pornography, according to a new report by the Interior Department's inspector general.
So it seems that the greed of bureaucrats knows no bounds. You have a class of people who are paid almost double what the average American makes, they enjoy unprecedented job security, and benefits that are the envy of the rest of us and yet that isn’t enough for them.
Meanwhile, we have soldiers on the ground in warzones fighting unconstitutional wargames set up by idealistic swine who get paid less than these morons do. All the while the rest of us end up suffering because of their irresponsibility.
There is no system that can be put in place that can fix this kind of wickedness. No matter how limited you make government, it will always spectacularly fail at what it is doing, unless it’s a simple matter of blowing something up. It is high time that we all reconsidered the Interstate Commerce Clause and draft an amendment to repeal it entirely. Not that repealing it would eliminate any of these departments, but it would give us a better standing to sue in the courts.
These bureaucrats are by no means innocent in this matter. If anything, they were the ones who demanded the bribe in the first place. After all, if you were confronted with a government agent who threatened to shut you down if you did not comply, wouldn’t you offer some kind of bribe to keep your business going. That’s the dirty little secret of corporatism, it’s not that companies necessarily bribe and corrupt government agents, its that government agents extort money from them to begin with. They simply call it a bribe when they get caught.
All of these men should be forced to pay for the damages this oil spill has caused. Now, I don’t tow the line that Obama has caused this or Obama doesn’t want to clean it up. I think Obama has done more than enough about this and that it is entirely BP’s problem to fix. That is the free market response. However, because of this coming to light, I think all these bureaucrats who are involved should be personally sued by all the industries that are affected by the oil spill.
It won’t happen though. The government always protects its own, no matter how wicked its own really are. Unless you shoot an illegal alien. Then you’ll be in jail for a decade or so.