Opinion: Government not here to help anyone

After watching the devastation of Hurricane Helene and now the Los Angeles wildfires, do you understand yet that government isn’t there to help you? Do you understand it can’t help, and generally makes things worse?

It doesn’t take a disaster. Government won’t save you from poverty, from health problems, from crime, or from competing governments. It isn’t designed to help you; it is designed to hold, and increase, power. You are its annoying pet, or livestock to be sheared or butchered.

Taxes aren’t inflicted to fund government. The Federal Reserve can dream up all the funny money government wants. Taxes, including inflation, are imposed to make sure you don’t have money available for what you want and need. Taxes are designed to change your behavior and to keep you from being self-sufficient. This way you might come crawling to government, begging for its help. Help you’d be less likely to need if you were able to keep and use your own money.

When government does provide a service, it’s a dim shadow of what you would choose for yourself if you had the money.

Just like the wealthy homeowners in California who hired private firefighters to save their homes once they realized the government-provided service wasn’t enough. Or those who rigged up their own fire suppression systems instead of relying on government.

There are still people in western North Carolina living in tents, in winter conditions, who thought government was there to help.  Not only is government not helping, but it’s blocking those, like the Amish, who want to help. It considers its own rules more important than the lives of the victims. It has even informed its victims that their property tax bills will not be adjusted to reflect their new circumstances.

If you don’t yet understand how evil government is, are you waiting until it affects you, personally? Even worse, you may decide “If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em” and become part of the problem by entering government. As well-intentioned as you may be, you can’t change the mafia from the inside. Chances are, good people who accept a government job will change more than they change government. If you’ve paid any attention, you’ve seen this happen time after time.

A smarter approach is to do what you ought to be doing in spite of government. Find workarounds to help those government is ignoring or mistreating. Be the help government can’t be.

Farwell’s Kent McManigal champions liberty. Contact him at:

[email protected]