Government, the necessary evil

One has but to open the first page of "Common Sense" to see yet another simple applicable truth to today's sham of a government. In his effort to show the distinction between "society" and "government" he says this:

"Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one; for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries by a government, which we might expect in a country without government, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer."

This is precisely the insult upon injury that we suffer today when our elected representatives feign deafness or attempt to minimize us with degrading rhetoric meant to belittle our cries for freedom as nothing more than some crazed half-brained cry babies that can't understand that "The Government is here to help you!". If we wanted to be hijacked by pirates, enslaved, and have our voices silenced - we could certainly get such treatment in some anarchic no-man's land. But we do NOT expect such treatment by those we elect and pay to represent our interests in what is supposed to be a free and representative republic. You WILL hear us, or you will be finding yourselves a new job. We will not furnish the means by which we suffer much longer.