Shocker! Politicians/Governments Abuse Power!!!

Is anyone really surprised when a story breaks about a politician that abuses power? Or how about when a government agency begins targeting various political interest groups? It seems like every few months a politician falls from their position of power.

Chris Christie is the latest politician to fall into scandal. Before him, the mayor from Canada who was smoking crack.Not long ago, IRS targeting, and the state departments negligence in Benghazi and the cover up that followed. If there is one thing to take away from these events it's that people abuse their power and will spin a story to make themselves look innocent.

In the case of Chris Christie, I'm not sure if he did in fact know of the shutdown of the George Washington Bridge, but he might have known. What's amazing is that Democrats defended Hillary Clinton and President Obama in the Benghazi debacle saying that they didn't know and that other people are in place for those types of situations. But when a scandal comes out of a Republican administration the Democrats immediately reject that same defense.

The only thing to take away from all this scandal is that politicians are going to abuse their power. It doesn't matter if they are Democrats or Republicans or Libertarians. There is only one way to reduce the  temptation to abuse power, downsize the government. It's precisely because the government, at the state and federal level, is so large that abuse occurs. This isn't to say that there will be no scandals with small government, but it's less likely.

If the state of NJ privatized the roads and gave the authority of them to private companies, Chris Christie's office never would have been able to shut down those lanes. If the IRS didn't have such broad authority and power there wouldn't have been any political targeting. 

As the government grows larger, so does the abuse. At the current rate of government expansion, expect to see many stories like these.