Why do we Have Government

Why do we have a government? What a government is good for? Like in a family where there is someone who leads, people choose to find someone who can guide them as a group. At the beginning the father was the one guiding the whole family, but countries got bigger and bigger. Then it was necessary to find someone able to be the head of the country. A really stupid guy came with the idea of the royal family, and that the kings or the pharaohs are the representation of God on earth. Thanks to that smart idea every country in the world was governed by a kind, a pharaoh, a Cesar, or whatever name they decided to put as the “representation of god”.
These first governments didn’t care about the people of their kingdoms. They just cared about themselves, which is something that have not changed, but on that time the injustice was more direct. Time went by and people started to think on another way of government. That is how the first congress was born. Congresses had the power of making some decisions and the original idea was to help poor people, but congresses were just more people who looked for their own interest.
The way to govern has improved with the time but the same idea remains. Individuals in control of everything in the past were called king, imperator, and pharaoh. Today they are called presidents, or dictators. The president is not more that a guy who is looking for his own interest and the interest of people who help him or her to be in power. Today, politics also have the congress. The congress has not improved as the presidents have. The basic idea is to lie and to bring promises to people that will never been fulfilled. As always, the most general opinion is the worst one, so all the politics that are selected by people are the most terrible ones.
Let’s be honest, it is hard to select a president or a politic who is suppose to fight for our best interests if we have never seen that person face to face. The worst thing is that candidates to the presidency are not in the same social or economical level as about 85% of the population is. Therefore, how do we expect that these presidents seek for the best of the greater number of people? I believe that the best business philosopher is Hobbes. In business, people only look for their own benefits. I apologize for breaking the bubble where many people live, but politic is business. What I want to say is that the individual chosen as the president, who is selected to represent the people and the country, will only represent his or her own interests. An example is the actual president, George W. Bush. Bush was elected president in order to do what is best for the country. USA is a country that has more than 301 millions of people, but Bush is only looking for the benefits of his family and people in the petroleum’s business. Bush the father tried to invade Iraq on 1991, but he failed. Then, Bush the son looked for any excuse in order to fulfill his father war’s desire, and he found the way. Also, in the Clinton’s administration, there was a global convenient about the reduction of CO2. However, Bush is not interested in this reduction because the main cause of the CO2 in the world derivates from the petroleum, and as we all know Bush loves petroleum.
As we can see, the government, in fact, doesn’t do anything good for its people, it just help the small group of individuals that are close to the person who is in power. The only right that the government offers to its people in a democrat system is to pay taxes and to vote for some corrupt candidates. At the end, that doesn’t help anyone. What is the best way of government? There is none. The only thing to do is to find a person that sometimes thinks more in others than in him or her first.