The people who run government are in control of gigantic, unstoppable machines. Their actions have the force of law. They are just humans — but with the whole power of the state behind them.
This is a good reason to be very careful who we have at the levers of power in government — and to try to keep the role of government as small as possible. Power will be abused, writes Ben in
The American Spectator.
Ben Stein is a writer, actor, and lawyer, who served as a speechwriter in the Nixon administration as the Watergate scandal unfolded. He began his unlikely road to stardom when director John Hughes cast him as the numbingly dull economics teacher in the urban comedy, "Ferris Bueller's Day Off." Read more reports from Ben Stein — Click Here Now.
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