Government is unnatural

Something that I've considered writing about, but I found someone else's thoughts which are just as good. Stuart Feild from Arkansas wrote on Facebook:

'"In nature, the weak are weeded out and don't get to reproduce. You'd think essentially the same thing would happen with policies that don't work at all? Or am I too full of wishful thinking?"

Actually the opposite tends to happen with bad policies and programs, and it is precisely because government is unnatural.

In the free market it's easy to tell if something is working because it makes money. The money can be used to sustain the program and if it makes enough money it will grow. If it doesn't make money, it will go away because it can't sustain itself. That is also what happens in nature. The weaker animals can't feed themselves or keep up with the environment and they die away or fall victim to others species. The free unregulated market is a direct extension of the natural order.

A government policy or program doesn't need to make money, it's already funded, so it doesn't matter if it works or not, it can continue indefinitely. If it makes a politician look good, they will spin it and it will get more money. When it doesn't work, the politician can claim the program is under funded. Either way the tendency in government is always to grow. Since success is not directly linked to the growth rate, the growth is always unnatural.'