Extended Shit I Don't Get #3

After some time to think, I've found that I don't entirely understand something (BREAKING NEWZ). I don't understand these politicians that proclaim the government to be this enormous, inefficient, hulking bureaucracy that's a cancer on our society, and then seek elected office. Now that takes fuckin balls. If I were interviewing for, say, an information technology job, and I told the interviewer that I thought IT folks were pale, sexless freaks who were more familiar with crafting recipes in World of Warcraft than with even rudimentary aspects of a vagina, I probably wouldn't get hired. I probably wouldn't get hired because I'd probably do a shitacular job if I hated the position so damn much.

Going even further, beyond the apparent contradiction of "government sucks, put me in charge of it," is something I don't understand about the ideology itself. The anti-government folks seem to believe that, if there is a government (God (TM) forbid), it should be focused on staying out of our lives. The government should be focused on doing nothing, essentially.

This view of what the purpose of government is makes these less-government folks absolutely correct, in a perverse way. Having a president, vice president, 9 Supreme Court justices, and 535 members of Congress sure is inefficient and wasteful if what you think the government should be doing is nothing. I mean, Jesus Christ, I can do nothing all by myself! At home! While jerking off! I don't need a bureaucrat to do that for me. But let's see how this do-nothing government idea is monumentally stupid.

This might be a bit esoteric, but remember when you were doing a math problem, and it asks you to find the volume of a fuckin cube or something? And you solve the equations and shit, and you finish with a few possible answers for the volume of the cube. So you need to eliminate some of the answers, because the cube can only have one value for the volume. And one of the answers you have is negative, and you immediately throw that one out. Why? Because it's negative, and a cube can't have a negative volume. While it may be a solution to the equations you used, it doesn't make sense within the context of the problem.

That's exactly what this government-should-do-nothing crowd is proposing. To me, government was created to solve those big capital-letter-type issues: War, Poverty, Justice, Peace, Equality, Race, etc. Large, universally human issues need a large, society-wide force with the strength and backing of the people to act upon those problems. To look at these predicaments and ask "What should the government do to solve those problems?" only to have folks go "OH! OH! We can do nothing!" is the same as that negative value for cube volume. It's only an answer in the most technical, trivial sense. It doesn't make sense in the context of the problem.

I mean, Jesus, you think we can solve global warming just with you screwing in a few of those neat fluorescent lightbulbs? Fuck you. A politician wants to cut back the government? I say let's start with the part that employs his stupid ass.