Let's get cynical about government and intelligence.
1. Why does the government want an intelligent population? It doesn't. Too difficult to manage and govern.
Therefore, it is acceptable to allow the schools to continue failing their mission. It is fine for incompetent teachers to stay in place.
2. Why does the government want an intelligent congress? It doesn't. Too difficult to manage; to willing to compromise; to practical about human activities. Too liable to do something of lasting value.
3. Why does the government want an ample and well trained military. It doesn't. This is too risky for its personal security. The military lives mostly outside the walls of government and is clearly a threat.
4. Why does the government want efficient and fair federal agencies? It doesn't. This increases the expectations of the population to fair and effective treatment. It is better to keep people slightly off-balance and definitely without high expectations.
The government has now become a systemic force unto itself.
a. It appears to be not responsible to the people, but it follows its own code.
b. It demands a universal PPM manual (Policy and Procedures Manual with massive regulations) to function.
c. It demands huge legislative measures that not a single congressman can understand.
d. It makes decisions outside the scrutiny of overseeing public officials.
e. The government wants and has arranged a totally polarized governing body. This implies little is done.
f. The government seeks control to manage and dictate all measures of man.
g. With the new ACA now linked with the IRS, the government becomes a powerful intimidating force against its citizens - thereby required desired behavior.
h. With the recent suspension of the Senate rules, the government can exploit to make appointments sustaining and enhancing government power. This will diminish some congressmen from proper considerations on the basis of their state. States' power is now drastically reduced.
i. The government has developed such an array of regulations, it is virtually impossible for any general oversight, and even local intra-agency oversight is diminishing.
j. It operates essential outside the traditional three branches of government.
Possible flaws in the complete absorption of the citizenry to this new reality. It seems to be essentially a non human agency, without sensitivity to the maintenence and long term health and well being of the populace.
1. The government essentially views itself as if in a cocoon isolated from the world.
2. It is blind to external threats.
3. It assumes that whatever it does, prosperity will sustain.
4. It cannot comprehend public deterioration from within, whether spiritual, moral, or financial.
5. It views every social or fiscal problem has a regulatory solution.
6. It believes the country it inherited can be fundamentally changed, and vastly improved within its vision.
7. It reacts to problems with solutions without consideration of unintended consequences. Basically, it treats a symptom of a problem, leaving the problem in tact.
In brief, this monolithic, almost all powerful government seems to be totally naive about the nature of the people it governs.
