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I have a friend ( Kenny ) who complains about the government all the time,  ( So do I )   He claims that everything could be made much better if....  ***WE JUST GOTTA GET THE RIGHT PEOPLE*** ...or the right programs .....or correctly tuned laws    He believes that meaningful reform will occur by tweaking government projects and ***JUST GETTING THE RIGHT  PEOPLE***   *** Just implement the right ideas ****

Sorry ... These ideas will not work

#1   No one is smart enough to run a big government program.   No one........
#2   No one ever does SOPM   ( Spend Other People's Money ) without getting sloppy and greedy.  ( Spend Other People's Money )  Only an individual knows their path to happiness. 
#3   Government attracts losers , evil trolls and mediocre idiots.  People who are hubristic ... on par with an imaginary god.  People who make make another person a means to an end.  ( Sacrifice the individual for the good of a collectivist idea ) .

for more thoughts....
IPPP
Emerald Rule

A closely related item is "Hubris Syndrome"... This is where the individual thinks they are smart enough to run the world.  Examples:  Obama, George Bush, the Clintons , Newt Gingrich ( an extreme case ) ....  the Republican and Democratic parties , my son Collin .........

So what to do if one wants to make the world better ?
#1 Smaller is often better.   Big organizations are often a total disaster.  the smallest organization is one person ... an individual.
#2 Don't steal from others because you think your ideas are better and you want funding.
#3 Don't enforce your ideas on others.  Let them alone.   # The EmeraldRule  # ZeroethCommandment

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"congressional 'insider trading'"

SEEING DOUBLE – “congressional 'insider trading'” – double-dipping + legal double-standard (congressional ‘insider trading’ is NOT illegal) – within the insanity that congress is a village of idiots whose main virtues are greed and selfishness -- why is “congressional insider trading” not covered by ‘conflict of interest’? because the logic of greed trumps the logic of conflict. In other words, if you are greedy enough, you will feel no conflict.

Toward the end of 2011, 60 Minutes disclosed the story that members of Congress, including House leader John Boehner and former House leader Nancy Pelosi, were trading stocks and options based on inside information. (http://seekingalpha.com/article/315814-congressional-insider-trading-no-wonder-america-disapproves)

The most unacceptable thing about this double standard where Congress awards itself immunity (no need for anything like ‘judicial immunity’ that must be grounded, say, in a jurisdictional element), is that they also resist the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act. (http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/bill-to-ban-insider-trading-in-congress-is-suddenly-popular/2011/11/30/gIQAn193DO_story.html)

This is not to say that since Congressional insider trading is acceptable, then wall street insider trading should be also. Nor is the reverse to be automatically accepted – that since wall street insider trading is illegal, then Congressional insider trading should be illegal, The important thing here is that whether in the arena of business, of politics, or of any other arena, when individuals abrogate moral responsibility to the dustbin, they should pay restitution to parties they have injured.