In Search of Self Government
By: Doug Busselman, Executive Vice President
Only 76 pages in length, this wonderful book provides some very common-sense and easily embraced ideas which as much as anything summarize the values Americans hold dear – in spite of the elites who pursue implementing a system where they run the government and the government runs the nation. The author, Scott Rasmussen, is the founder and President of Rasmussen Reports – the independent media company specializing in the collection, publication and distribution of public-opinion polling information.
The book, In Search of Self-Governance, promotes the necessity of a strong surge of involvement by citizens to fix what is broken so that government may once again return to be consent of the governed. Once accomplished, the outcome would again be provided for citizens to return to their daily lives of governing themselves as opposed to long enduring the burdens of being chaperones in the political world.
Following my read of the Rasmussen Report’s identification that a strong majority of citizens believe the country is going in the wrong direction while those who think that they are in charge believe they have things going in the right direction, I ordered the book in Search of Self-Governance, not really expecting to get what I got when it was delivered.
Much more than a conservative manifesto appeal for eliminating government all together, the writing struck a common-sense balance which seeks to empower consumers to determine successful business enterprises based on the service and quality delivered – as opposed to what inside deal the business is able to strike with the “powerful” in government. Likewise government control is replaced with leadership who advocate for self-governance and actively work for letting people live their lives without supervision.
Although not a huge fan of government regulation – at least the approach of regulation for the sake of regulation, I found the ideas outlined by Rasmussen to capture some of the spirit for government’s proper role that I haven’t been able to adequately document. “Free markets don’t mean an unfettered laissez-faire capitalism where anything goes,” he wrote. “As with almost everything else in a self-governing society, there is an important supporting role for government to play. But, it is a supporting role and one that should empower consumers rather than replace them.”
“When regulators are in charge, those who can game the system win. When consumers are in charge, those who serve the consumers win.” Rasmussen observes, adding. “In a self-governing society, service to the consumer must be the driving force that determines success or failure for businesses.”
Needless to say, I strongly recommend the book and ideas for others to read, consider and share. I’ll be doing some more on it in upcoming posts.
“The American people don’t want to be governed from the left, the right, or the center. The American people want to govern themselves. In fact, they have been governing themselves for hundreds of years, continue to do so today, and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. That’s true regardless of whether Republicans or Democrats are running the show in Washington, D.C.” – In Search of Self Government by Scott W. Rasmussen
Only 76 pages in length, this wonderful book provides some very common-sense and easily embraced ideas which as much as anything summarize the values Americans hold dear – in spite of the elites who pursue implementing a system where they run the government and the government runs the nation. The author, Scott Rasmussen, is the founder and President of Rasmussen Reports – the independent media company specializing in the collection, publication and distribution of public-opinion polling information.
The book, In Search of Self-Governance, promotes the necessity of a strong surge of involvement by citizens to fix what is broken so that government may once again return to be consent of the governed. Once accomplished, the outcome would again be provided for citizens to return to their daily lives of governing themselves as opposed to long enduring the burdens of being chaperones in the political world.
Following my read of the Rasmussen Report’s identification that a strong majority of citizens believe the country is going in the wrong direction while those who think that they are in charge believe they have things going in the right direction, I ordered the book in Search of Self-Governance, not really expecting to get what I got when it was delivered.
Much more than a conservative manifesto appeal for eliminating government all together, the writing struck a common-sense balance which seeks to empower consumers to determine successful business enterprises based on the service and quality delivered – as opposed to what inside deal the business is able to strike with the “powerful” in government. Likewise government control is replaced with leadership who advocate for self-governance and actively work for letting people live their lives without supervision.
Although not a huge fan of government regulation – at least the approach of regulation for the sake of regulation, I found the ideas outlined by Rasmussen to capture some of the spirit for government’s proper role that I haven’t been able to adequately document. “Free markets don’t mean an unfettered laissez-faire capitalism where anything goes,” he wrote. “As with almost everything else in a self-governing society, there is an important supporting role for government to play. But, it is a supporting role and one that should empower consumers rather than replace them.”
“When regulators are in charge, those who can game the system win. When consumers are in charge, those who serve the consumers win.” Rasmussen observes, adding. “In a self-governing society, service to the consumer must be the driving force that determines success or failure for businesses.”
Needless to say, I strongly recommend the book and ideas for others to read, consider and share. I’ll be doing some more on it in upcoming posts.
Posted by Doug Busselman at 8/18/2010 1:40 PM 
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Categories: Government
Tags: Nevada 2010 Election Limited Government Government Subsidies
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