Comments for Who Is To Blame: The REAL--And Surprising Source of America's Woes at http://www.ldsfreemen.com , comment 1 to 2 out of 2 comments http://www.ldsfreemen.com Thu, 20 Nov 2008 20:58:02 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.ldsfreemen.com/guest-columnist/who-is-to-blame-the-real-and-surprising-source-of-americas-woes.html#comment-131 The (apparently willful) ignorance level is massive, I must admit, but I was born much after the constitutional usurpations of power after the Civil War and the New Deal. The shear size of Big Government (the vast maze of bureacratic nannying, propaganda creation and intervention in all aspects of our lives) is ITSELF unmanageable given limited time and resources. Scholar Charlotte Twight (who works for a think tank I work for) has documented a sort of veil of shear complexity under which politicians work-including intentional manipulation of complexity in the law (she calls it "political transaction cost manipulation") in order to hide the real effects of policies. The humble, limited roll of government ITSELF is necessary for citizenship to have ANY MEANING AT ALL. (This is something that so-called "progressives," who naively envisioned a well-educated citizenry keeping government in check, even while expanding government into many new areas, COMPLETELY OVERLOOKED.) - Brother Joseph Sat, 12 Jul 2008 15:19:13 +0100 http://www.ldsfreemen.com/guest-columnist/who-is-to-blame-the-real-and-surprising-source-of-americas-woes.html#comment-118 You will remember that Alma (the younger) was both the chief judge and president of the church and when he noticed his culture degrading made the correct decision to improve the people (with the gospel) rather than try to improve their behavior by remaining chief judge. By throwing all his efforts to the gospel he made the only rational decision for real change which would be reflected in the government. Thanks for offering such a fine article. - least of these Thu, 26 Jun 2008 20:43:39 +0100