We continue to transfer more power to government, proving to ourselves that we lack the heart and brains to be trusted to ourselves. On the radio today, a news item told how the Buncombe County Sheriff’s Department (a.k.a., government, policing power, etc.) was making daily check-in calls to the elderly. The number to call to enroll for the service was given out hourly. I don’t think we have a shortage of love for the elderly. Rather, I think our negligence has something to do with everybody having to work two or three jobs to pay taxes for services like this.