Exactly how much does it pay to be a internet shill? Your positions are pathetic. You must be being paid to write this drivel because no one on earth is actually as stupid as you pretend to be.
lol... Insult is not an argument.
When you can find a way in which power given to one man over another can be prevented from being used for personal gain, then you can make a case for honest government, but you can't, and thus, honest government can never exist.
lol... Yes, nothing quite like setting up impossible standards.
Deception, lies and cheating are a standard part of human behavior. Everyone lies. Most people can't go more than an hour without lying.
We know that things like rules, and the mere belief that someone is watching, tend to improve behavior. (See Daniel Ariely's work for more detail.)
We also incorporate a variety of mechanisms to keep government in line, including but not limited to:
• Transparency
• Accountability
• Elections
• Balance of powers
• Competition between branches and levels of government
• Rule of law
Thus:
1) Demanding that we have a perfectly "honest government" is like saying "everyone should stop having sex for 2 years." It's not going to happen.
2) Your impossible requirement does not eliminate the fact that a modern society needs government -- and that it is far from a given that "less government" somehow provides better functionality than a larger government.
Food safety is an obvious example. We have seen, over and over, that industries like meat packing cannot be trusted to supervise themselves. The threat of lawsuits is obviously not enough, as it merely becomes part of the cost of business. Regulation and oversight will never be 100% perfect, but it produces substantially better outcomes than leaving them to their own devices.
3)
Somehow, your analysis completely ignores societal elements like
common goods, or that elected governments rarely add services and functions which no one asks for.
Yes, there are inefficiencies in government -- as in any endeavor. Yes, our political leaders lie -- as do CEOs and doctors and bankers and
everyone else. Yes, it's not perfect. However, the reality is that governance is human and a human need. Merely proclaiming "government is evil, therefore it must be as small as possible" is ultimately a half-baked argument that lacks a basic understanding of human nature.