Energy giant Enron crumbled under its own weight of lies, deceit, diversification, incompetence and top-heavy greed... Wait a minute! That shoe fits the federal government too.

Enron's core business was pipelines and power plants, then it created the energy trading business, and diversified into areas where it had no business, such as $billions in broadband communications. Enron simply had its fingers in too many speculative pies, filled with bureaucratic drag and money manipulation.

Government, on the same hand, was formed by the American people to provide basic services and protections defined and limited by the Constitution, but it ignored the Constitution with unbridled diversification, wild speculation and expanded into areas where it has no business. Its fingers are in too many lives, it's filled with top-heavy power and greed, bureaucratic drag and intrusive regulations, and it lies and deceives as a matter of course.

Enron is simply a snapshot of the way government works, on the backs of the people who worked for and invested in it, not the people who ran it. Government operates substantially the same way, however, it survives on perpetual taxation, forcibly funded by the very people it's supposed to protect. Now, look who's judging who...

Daniel B. Jeffs, founder
The Direct Democracy Center