Big wants to get bigger.  In the private marketplace, the mechanism works only so long as a business continues to compete and run its concern profitably. (Except, of course, when government declares otherwise)   When it doesn’t, big doesn’t get bigger. In some cases it shrinks, implodes, even disappears. Unfortunate for the management, employees, shareholders and remaining customers, yet generally good for everyone else.  Government, however, doesn’t play by market rules. Especially when it’s in the hands of those who believe” big” government is a benevolent force for good.  They see the market as messy and unfair, a very frightening place. People and things fail there. Bad goes boom. Stupid goes unrewarded.  The role of government, in their view, is to be the center of the moral universe, the risk remover, the determiner of more pleasant, pleasing outcomes.

We have, at last count, over 30 czars. I doubt the President and his staff, if pressed, could name them all.  There are car czars, school czars, executive pay czars respiratory gas czars, czars of every this and that who are tasked, within their various czardoms, to use their wisdom and magical powers to make our lives better. Not one faced a voter. Not one has a constitutional reason for being.  The idea seems to be borrowed from the big city community political model, where you create boards and commissions to park your supporters, who then in an orgy of  stupidity, wreck havoc on local business and citizenry.  Just ask any small businessperson or entrepreneur who needs a permit or license in virtually any city in America.  The obstacles are many, the costs burdensome, the hassles a house of horrors.  And now each of these Czars can tap into the Federal gusher for a near limitless supply of freshly printed dollars to accomplish their various charters. Like all gushers, however, the wellhead will, over time, begin a gentle decline. Yet the Czars, their minions and their supplicants will not rest. Because the mission is never done, our lives never fixed.  They will go before Congress for more. Because “big” is a glutton. A gobbler of what’s individually ours. Big does not like diets.  Business will be drilled for new sources of income.  Regulations will be imposed, taxes levied, fees collected, all extorted in the name of fixing what needs to be fixed.

People who have never made things, who have never run things, who have never lived their lives exposed to a marketplace economy, are leading the assault on American business.  The vast majority of the current crop of what passes for elites are the products of heavily subsidized, artificially concocted cocoons, either in academia or government. Accomplished gluttons, they will do anything to keep the troughs full.  Troughs slopping over ? Lets build new ones.  We can always recruit new feeders.

The only way to stop runaway big government is to broom its practionioners. At every level. Find candidates of either party who reject big government as the solution. People who want to cork the porkfest. Who know excessive taxes crush job creation and innovation. Who know a return to prosperity is not likely to be accomplished by government, but by the real job creators who have an idea, and who are willing to nourish it and take risks with no one but the marketplace in their way. 

2010 looms large.  The” Bigs “, and all their piggy friends need to sent back to their non-productive, utopian ,  academic dens for another generation or two.

We can’t afford them or their ideas.