What is in a “corporation?” What lies within a corporation other than bosses, subordinates, paper-shufflers, logistics, marketing, administrators, accountants, paperclips, staplers, water coolers, and workplace gossip? How would you define it? Would you define it as an entity which makes up it’s own rules for it’s own employees within a culture of it’s own and for it’s own structural operation? I’d say that would paint a fairly accurate portrait. But, how would you define our Federal Government? Bear in mind that I’m not talking about the political body which was formed 230 years ago, nor am I talking about the political body which diligently respected the rights of citizens all through the constitutional implementation process which lasted until the 1830s. I’m talking about the government today. I’m talking about this authoritarian product which has resulted from 180-years of steady encroachment. I’m talking about the “nature” of a contemporary beast–one which wages campaigns against assembled citizens such as the Tea Party; one which plunders the piggy-bank of funds earmarked for certain programs to fund another; one which kowtows to conclaves of international bureaucrats such as the United Nations; one which tells us how to produce energy; one which tells us what kind of light bulbs we’re allowed to use; one which, well, you get the picture…the list of encroachments is a scroll of Dead Sea proportions.

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