Good men do not HOPE for revolution. It is simply to be endured.

I was discussing the mess in out government, and the apparent intractability of cleaning it up with my friend Mark Smith.  I have often called for there to be few laws, rigorously enforced, and applied evenly without exception.  I think the whole of the law should be 10,000 words (or less!), double spaced 12 point font on 8 x 11 paper.  If they want to put something in, they should have to take something out.  No regulations or other fine print not specifically laid out in that law should exist.  There should be no tax code, or getting around this limitation by making an addendum, etc.


You should be able to sit down and in an afternoon learn how your country works and is regulated from a-z.


Additionally there should also be no more than 3 levels of management in any government entity except the military.  Managers should manager no fewer than 8 employees.  Professing ignorance of the doings of your subordinates should be cause for immediate dismissal.

Mr. Smith had similar views, and here I am paraphrasing "Our laws are ... not meaningless. They are INTENDED to be dense, confusing and TOTALLY dependant upon "the clerks" to enlighten we, the benighted.  They create these complex laws and regulations on purpose. It is by design.  Therefore it CANNOT be "fixed".  If you refuse to name the enemy, you cannot fight him and you surely cannot win.  Capitalism has "creative destruction" as a KNOWN mechanism that CAN be implemented to "fix" problems. There is NO SUCH MECHANISM  in EXISTANCE for "government" or a bureaucracy.  The only mechanism in existence is "revolution". It is to be avoided."

I was going to say Maximilien Robespierre had a solution, but it didn't work out well for him.

"Revolution is ugly, messy and TERRIBLY inefficient. It is to be avoided at all costs if at ALL possible.  It does NOT go easy on the weak either.  Good men do not HOPE for revolution. It is simply to be endured.  Cancer cannot be "reasoned" with though."

I agree.