Big Business Men vs. Big Government Men

Many distrust the former in favor of the latter.  Well, they both want your money.  The difference is, a business man must persuade you to give him your money by offering you something of value for it.  He must make it worth your while.  He can't force you.  He can't just take your money at the point of a gun.  And there it is.  The fact is, the big government man CAN forcefully confiscate your money and he does so, via taxes.

Why, then do we instinctively put more trust in the government man than in the business man?  Is it because the business man is only in it for the money?  Do you work for free?  Or do you collect a paycheck?  I guess you, too, are only in it for the money.  Again, you're just like that big business man.  You wouldn't show up at work if not for the paycheck.  Why shouldn't a business man be paid for his work, as well?  Is it all in the size of the paycheck?  You get to say how much is too much for one man to make?  By what right?  By the same right that allows someone somewhere who makes less than you to say YOU make too much?

My question becomes, if the big government men aren't motivated by money, what motivates them?  Is it that they're above the rest of us; they're as clean and pure as the wind driven snow?  They do whatever it is they do for us because they love us? 

I certainly don't know anyone as "virtuous" as that.  Or is it these bureaucrat's and politician's desire for power that drives them?  That seems a little more likely, doesn't it?  Well, then the two groups of men share common desires.  But again, there is legitimate power and then there is illegitimate power, as explained in Ayn Rand's "Capitalism, the Unknown Ideal."

With the business man's earned money comes power; the power to buy things he wants, the power to hire people to do things, etc.  You, at your level enjoy some of that legitimate power.  Big government men enjoy illegitimate power we've allowed them to usurp from us.  They're only supposed to act in defense of liberty; to react to threats and violations of our liberty.  They're to do nothing until those threats and /or violations are present.  In fact, they've got a lot to undo, to unfetter us, the people.  And it's we the people who must force them to give up their unconstitutional power.  They won't do it on their own.  They like forcing us to do what they think we should do.  And so that is what we must do: go to that caucus meeting, contact that congressman, attend that tea party event, get involved with "freedom works."  We allowed these problems to occur, but we can fix them.