Swine Flu was overly exxagerated... Shocking

Swine flu was not nearly the threat the WHO said it was. The WHO ties to big Pharma are now being blamed for helping fuel the fire of this threat. Of course, anyone who is skeptical of big government and big corporations is not shocked by this, but it does give me an excuse to talk about something that I feel is not discussed nearly enough.

A great deal of people who support small government do not do so because they love big corporations. We do so because we don't trust politicians because we understand the lure of the money of big corporations. We fear the government becomes a tool for the rich that can afford the influence people like me and you can only dream of.

The government becomes a weapon the rich wield while carelessly attacking the poor while destroying their freedoms one at a time. Sound like hyperbole? Hardly. Lets take a look at the H1N1 virus as it is our current example. The rich (big pharma) got millions of dollars of additional research dollars from the government, from our tax dollars. What do we get in return? A vaccine that seems like it was less likely than the government (influenced by big pharma) told us it was. People fell ill because of the vaccine that was not nearly as necessary as we were scared into believing.

The green movement is another example of this. Al Gore's company got a loan of more than 500 million dollars from the US taxpayers. He got a benefit from all of us. Why? He has influence that we do not have. He is forcing his will (of getting cheap or free loans) on us (who are taking a great deal of the risk for him). What rights of ours are violated? The right not to lend the money. This might sound trivial but it isn't. We each have the right to control our own proverbial pursestrings, and the government constantly interferes with this.

There are countless other examples of this being true. Obama covers up for BP while Louisiana suffers. No one can seriously argue that BP's influence over the regulators and the regulation process benefited anyone but themselves. Once again, a large government followed incentives. They get tons of gifts and campaign contributions from these corporations while we watch our wetlands disappear because of the careless acts of a government gone corrupt.