The best government is the government that governs least which can only be if we better self-govern ourselves.

Gardening is a form of self-governing.

Gardeners reduce the need for many government programs and bureaucracies as people engage in a free enterprise that rewards in dollars, happiness, family and work ethic, that is, more freedom from the problems of life.

It should be noted that all governments originated within an agricultural society as moving hunter/gatherers became sedentary growers. With the latter, rules were needed to optimize production by eliminating the losses and insecurities of various forms of theft. One can see this in the histories of Greece, Rome, Babylon, China, Japan, India, etc. The origin of most, if not all, currencies was based on the production of food: shekel, dinari, and yen.

In many cultures, Rome and Greece, opportunities for elected office were govern by one's productivity in food production: The more one produced, the more eligible one was for higher office. One's right to govern others was based on practicality: If you could not produce enough to feed yourself, why should you be allowed to tell others how to live their lives? With unqualified schooling designed as paper mills, we suffer educators who cannot educate ... leaders who can not lead ... parents who are parenthetical. Morality without practicality is immoral like the roads to hell paved with the good intentions of bad values.

The basis of Western law as well as many legal, economic and moral terms derive from the Latin word for "gathering"--legere/legein--

1. acknowledge
2. allegations
3. allegiance
4. allegories
5. analogies
6. anthology
7. apology
8. backlog
9. belligerent
10. calligraphy
11. catalog
12. collect/collection
13. college
14. delegate
15. dialects
16. diligent
17. eclectic
18. elections
19. elegant
20. elegies
21. eligible
22. elite
23. epilogue
24. eulogies
25. idiologies
26. illegalities
27. illegitimate
28. intellect
29. intelligent
30. knowledge
31. language
32. large
33. largesse
34. league
35. lecture
36. ledgers
37. legacy
38. legal
39. legalities
40. legate
41. legend
42. legerity
43. legible
44. legislate
45. legitimate
46. legumes
47. lesson
48. letters
49. lex
50. liege
51. lignum
52. lignite
53. lingua
54. literacy
55. local/locality
56. lodge
57. log
58. logging
59. logic
60. logistics
61. logorrhea
62. malignant
63. monolog
64. neglect
65. negligee
66. negligent
67. negligible
68. neologism
69. obligation
70. oligarchy
71. phylogeny
72. privilege
73. prologue
74. relegation
75. religion
76. sacrilege
77. selective
78. syllogism
79. theologians
80. topology

The best government is the government that governs least. A lean-to is better than no house in a rising storm of wind and rain. Destroying the lean-to with the belief that the storm will go away is the message of the TEA Party--lapdogs of the very economic and political pupeteers that they decry. Only when the powers-to-be initiating true human and state rights will our problems be solved. Individual rights only exist when the individual is given the power to solve his individual problems--and required to exercise that power to right. Likewise with family, community and state rights.

The best government is the least government which is only possible when level rights are defined and required of the level of responsibility. If the individual has the ability to respond then is right to require responsibility by stick if carrot will not do. Likewise with all other levels. To not enable and require the responsibility to do right is to do wrong and suffer wrongs.

The US national debt of at least $15 trillion in 2013 can be described in many ways. It is a testament to how election-addicted habitual politicians have repeatedly bought their incumbency by abusing the power of purse, that is, borrowing money in the name of the public to "entitle" the public to live beyond the public means. Rather than require citizens to self-govern, incumbents have borrowed money to babysit the electorate long after the voters should have been self-solving or self-governing their own problems.

If the US had had term limits

1. in which the public policy-makers knew they would have to live under the laws they passed as private citizens
2. rather than luxuriate in the power and privileges of controlling the public purse,
3. then they would not have run the US into unpayable debt that will be canceled only by a combination of financial collapse and civil war.

If you like worsening habitual problems then vote for worsening habitual politicians who are supposed to make "policy to solve public problems," e.g., When politicians make good policy then the polity in the polis will be polite without police. Apathy on a sinking ship is suicide.

Also see Legere/Legein

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Afterthought:

1. The February, 2013, "sequestration" is another example of worsening problems from worsening habitual politicians.

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