We see it every day, in the news or the mouths of houndreds of people everywhere, the root of the problems in economy, society and even the weather over our head, its this evil known as government; but, what has the government done to deserve such a bad fame?
The government has had its bad times in history, true, but what is the government really to blame? We live in a society in which he government has a very controlled influence over the economy thanks to the current regimen of capitalism, in this regime the ones who move more money are the companies and the government just works as a sort of moderator to its activities; many are under the belief that it’s the government that’s responsible of creating jobs, wrong, the ones who create and spread jobs are the enterprises. But where does the problem reside? The citizen of today believes that he deserves a job without wining it, there’s a belief that the government has the responsibility of bringing the job to the people while the citizen does little to get one himself. There is also the costume of the begging worker, what is this? Its when the person that seeks the job expects things from his job, demands them even, without offering something in exchange; so the worker does what little he can and the industry just can’t have workers that are not efficient, so this people can’t get a job they demand and they complain to the referee, the government.
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Then comes another factor, the culture we have of looking at rich men and saying “where is my share?” this is a very common factor here at Mexico, and mostly everywhere else too, but here it’s very notable; just the other day I heard people say “how come Carlos Slim is so rich and there is so much poverty in this country?” people believe because a man has so much money they deserve a share, this is so very wrong. First this sets back economy even more, people tend to try to take rather than create; people often believe that they should get a part of the money the rich people have, instead of creating it themselves; often if you look into some of this wealthy people’s back story you can see that they made an effort to get their fortune, but the ones who crave a part just try to get their it with what little effort they can.
So the referee comes to blame again, the people demand that they deserve a share of the riches as if the government had their hand in their pocket; but then again if the government had its hand in your pocket, wouldn’t you be enraged? And you might say “what about taxes” The rich pay taxes too, much higher than we commoners pay, even those who serve the government pay them, so we all pay our due to society.
Then the people get enraged at the government, no matter what the government does some, or a lot, of people will oppose it; the different parts of society pull to a different direction preventing the government or even ourselves to make this society progress. The fact is what the government should stand for, and more than once fails at it, is as a moderator and guide to move society forward, but even with the direction of a good government if society doesn’t cooperate then we will go nowhere; its like here in Tijuana, people complain about crime insecurity and corruption, but they will bribe a cop out of a ticket, they will buy the drugs from the same drug lords they condemn; if society doesn’t move in the right direction, then how can we ask such a thing form the government? People try to do everything with what little effort possible as I said before, and this brings them to take the easy route with all of the problems of the society: blame the government.
That is the easy route we all take, passing the ball to the other, and what better scapegoat than the government. While I’m not saying our government is innocent and just peachy what I’m saying is that its not a government that actively steps on our neck and keeps us down but we blame it for such, out of convenience, out of fear of admitting that its not the government that step on us to impede our growth, but our own lack of dedication and effort, our fear of building a masterpiece, a great monument in science, art, or whatever you desire, and in whatever way destroy whatever limitation, be it anyone else, or ourselves.
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