Two Ways Individuals Empower Corrupt Government...

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Two ways individuals empower (even demand) corrupt government. 1) Blame them for your personal trials. Whomever you blame for your personal trials, you automatically empower. Whether they have ever met you or not, when you blame other people for the consequences of your choices, you are giving them power over your life. The worst part is you absolve yourself of any responsibility, which means you will never work to improve your situation. You have a ready made excuse, so there's no motivation. 2) Demand the government fix your problems for you. This has the exact same outcome as #1, just without playing the blame games. Worse yet though, it encourages even more corruption. You literally make them the guardians of your life. You make them the "go to" hero for all the other problems you face. If there is a problem, there is a government organization whose job it is to fix it. The School Lunch Program was set up to help kids have at least one hot meal a day. What it has ballooned to is millions of parents have turned the entire responsibility of feeding their kids to the schools. Families receiving hundreds of dollars a month in "Food Stamps" still complain about days that school isn't in session. "How are my kids going to eat?" Corporate leaders are more proof of these two points. They have relied on government "bailouts" for so long they have come to make them part of their regular budgets. They have also make donations to their political benefactors part of their normal business expenses. The same is true for the bigger "non profits" to the point that now people insist that the government "owes" those orgs that money. It's no longer a donation. People don't seem to want to stand up for ourselves anymore. As a society we want the government to take care of all our needs, so whatever time and money we have to spare can go to our wants. The problem is, we're so busy blaming and expecting, we don't even know the difference between needs and wants anymore.