For the last year and a half, I have pondered the following question: Exactly what kind of a government do we have ?
One one hand, we have experienced a horrible power grab that made the Founding Fathers do 360's in their graves. We have seen:
•The Big Mommy Regime seize GM and Chrysler
•The Big Mommy Regime seize the student loan industry.
•The Big Mommy Regime seize the banking industry.
•The Big Mommy Regime seize the health care industry.
All and all, a reasonable individual not named "Olbermann" or "Maddcow" could see the handwriting on the Berlin Wall. We as a country are heading down the path to socialism, if not out and out communism. I, like many others, spent the last year and half hoarding food, building a bomb shelter, attending Tea Parties, and boring anyone who would give me 30 seconds of their time explaining the latest government plot to rob us of our freedom.
Then, it struck me. What the hell am I afraid of ? The morons in the federal government couldn't lead ants to a picnic, let alone establish the Fourth Reich. Keystone Kops on an acid trip could do a better job running the country. In addition to the abominations I've listed above, we've also seen:
•Janet From Another Planet Napolitano, the Secretary of Homeland Lack of Security, say "the system worked" after the Christmas Day Skid Mark Bomber almost blew up a plane over Detroit.
•A beer summit to smooth over Chairman Obama calling small town cops stupid.
•A Stimulus Package that included $198 million dollars for Fillipino World War II veterans.
•Turtle tunnels and fish ladders being built with Stimulus money.
So which is it ? Off to the FEMA camps for a "shower" or a rapid slide into anarchy fueled by sheer stupidity ?
Sadly, dear reader, we are on the path towards both, As Yogi Berra once famously quipped, "When you come to a crossroads, take it!" Apparently, the federal government has taken Yogi's advice to heart because that's what they're doing. Our country is becoming an Incompetent Tyranny. The government has become larger and larger while becoming less and less competent. Naturally, this trend can't continue. There will be a breaking point. I don't know what that point will be, however. Maybe it was the Bay of Rigs disater in the Gulf. Maybe it's the international incident that's on its way from Obama's gangster shakedown treatment of BP, which is not an American corporation that can be bullied like the rest of our Dear Leader's victims. Maybe Kim Jong Mentally Ill will find a missile that can reach Hawaii after all. Only The Big Conservative Upstairs can answer that, and I hope He's in a good mood when He does.
The moral to this demented tale is this: We need change. No, we're not talking about Obama's "Hopey Changey" crap on a stick, we're talking about honest to God change. We must, as Americans, reject the tyranny of the Big Mommy Regime as well as hold it accountable for its blunders. This requires some work on our part. We have to be vigilant and well informed. (You've made the first step by reading my column, so keep up the good work.) We have to resist listening to the Sarah Jessica Parkers of the world who tell us who to vote for. We have to look at our elected "leaders" once and a while and say, "Bullsh--! You work for us, not the other way around." If we don't, it will be an endless cycle of being hauled off to a FEMA camp and being released because some bureaucratic clod didn't fill out form IG-88 in triplicate.
God help us all.
(Yes, I know there are no such thing as FEMA camps. I like to say that to freak out Progressiveviks and make them huff and puff. However, we no longer no longer live in a time where we could sit back and say, "That could never happen here". We live times that require us to say: "Well, I hope that's not true. I really do".)
Showing posts with label obama big government. Show all posts
Showing posts with label obama big government. Show all posts
Friday, June 18, 2010
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Nothing Good
Back in high school, an old football coach I had told us this after every game: "Nothing good can happen after midnight." (That is, after he was done cursing at us for losing every game we played.) He was right. Every Saturday morning, he was always getting phone calls from the angry townsfolk, "You'll never guess what your barbarians did last night," or my personal favorite, "Maybe if your quarterback wasn't paying so much attention to my daughter, he wouldn't throw so many interceptions." (No, that wasn't me. I was a big, ugly fullback.)
Now, let's use this piece of advice in a political sense: Nothing good can happen when the federal government expands.
When you look back at the history of recent government expansions, not one of them has worked out even remotely well. Social Security ? Bankrupt, trillions of dollars in the hole. Medicaid ? Only slightly less in the hole, trillions of dollars in debt. Department of Energy ? Billions of dollars in their budget, and we're still begging the Middle East for oil. Department of Education ? Billions of dollars in their budget, kids are only qualified to work at McDonald's or march in a San Francisco demonstration upon graduating. Of course, there's no need to mention the Stimulus, or the Veterans Administration, is there ?
Yet, Chairman Obama wants us to trust the federal government with the most valuable things we have: our bodies and our health.
I honestly can't think of one thing the government does well, other than collect taxes. Sure, there's going to be those who say the military is run well, but anyone who's served day one will have horror stories about "hurry up and wait" and "fill this form out in triplicate." When it comes to Uncle Sugar, he's never met a dollar he couldn't waste and a bureaucracy he couldn't grow. Ronald Reagan was right and he was wrong. "I'm from the government and I'm here to help" aren't just scary words, those are codewords for "Build a bunker and hoard food."
Nevermind the cost of Obamacareless, the monumental bureaucracy that it promises is really what's frightening, to say the least. The legislation will be huge and no one will be able to comprehend it, adding to an already burdened system. It won't just be the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing, it will be the left hand thinks it's the right foot. Doctors will be unsure of what to do next. Insurance and billing coders will become utterly confused, as will nurses, surgical technicians and anyone else who works in the health care industry. If you think there's waste and stupidity now, just wait until this monster rears its ugly head. Ambulance chasers all over the country are licking their chops. If you think lawsuits are a problem now, wait until you see the lawsuits attatched to Obamacareless. There won't be any "economic downturn" for trial lawyers, you can bet your last dollar on that, for sure.
It looks like Chairman Obama and his Merry Band of Socialists are going to push this through come hell or high water, so we as the voters and the doers of this nation have to make it point to vote for candidates in the 2010 Midterms who run on a platform to repeal this insanity, and hold them to it. For me, this will be the biggest factor in deciding who to vote for. I won't care if the candidate makes Barry Goldwater look like a Woodstock hippie. I won't care if they drone on and on about the Constitution. If they're unwilling to repeal Obamacareless, they're not worthy of my support or the support of anyone with a functioning brain stem. The bottom line is, if you can't take a stand on this horrid government intrusion in our lives, you're not not even worthy of having the letters of your name capitalized, let alone have the right to call yourself a Conservative. (Got that, charlie crist ? susan collins ? olympia snowe ? lindsey grahamnesty ? john mcpain ?)
Oh boy, it looks like 11:59 pm. Do you know where your elected officials stand ?
Now, let's use this piece of advice in a political sense: Nothing good can happen when the federal government expands.
When you look back at the history of recent government expansions, not one of them has worked out even remotely well. Social Security ? Bankrupt, trillions of dollars in the hole. Medicaid ? Only slightly less in the hole, trillions of dollars in debt. Department of Energy ? Billions of dollars in their budget, and we're still begging the Middle East for oil. Department of Education ? Billions of dollars in their budget, kids are only qualified to work at McDonald's or march in a San Francisco demonstration upon graduating. Of course, there's no need to mention the Stimulus, or the Veterans Administration, is there ?
Yet, Chairman Obama wants us to trust the federal government with the most valuable things we have: our bodies and our health.
I honestly can't think of one thing the government does well, other than collect taxes. Sure, there's going to be those who say the military is run well, but anyone who's served day one will have horror stories about "hurry up and wait" and "fill this form out in triplicate." When it comes to Uncle Sugar, he's never met a dollar he couldn't waste and a bureaucracy he couldn't grow. Ronald Reagan was right and he was wrong. "I'm from the government and I'm here to help" aren't just scary words, those are codewords for "Build a bunker and hoard food."
Nevermind the cost of Obamacareless, the monumental bureaucracy that it promises is really what's frightening, to say the least. The legislation will be huge and no one will be able to comprehend it, adding to an already burdened system. It won't just be the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing, it will be the left hand thinks it's the right foot. Doctors will be unsure of what to do next. Insurance and billing coders will become utterly confused, as will nurses, surgical technicians and anyone else who works in the health care industry. If you think there's waste and stupidity now, just wait until this monster rears its ugly head. Ambulance chasers all over the country are licking their chops. If you think lawsuits are a problem now, wait until you see the lawsuits attatched to Obamacareless. There won't be any "economic downturn" for trial lawyers, you can bet your last dollar on that, for sure.
It looks like Chairman Obama and his Merry Band of Socialists are going to push this through come hell or high water, so we as the voters and the doers of this nation have to make it point to vote for candidates in the 2010 Midterms who run on a platform to repeal this insanity, and hold them to it. For me, this will be the biggest factor in deciding who to vote for. I won't care if the candidate makes Barry Goldwater look like a Woodstock hippie. I won't care if they drone on and on about the Constitution. If they're unwilling to repeal Obamacareless, they're not worthy of my support or the support of anyone with a functioning brain stem. The bottom line is, if you can't take a stand on this horrid government intrusion in our lives, you're not not even worthy of having the letters of your name capitalized, let alone have the right to call yourself a Conservative. (Got that, charlie crist ? susan collins ? olympia snowe ? lindsey grahamnesty ? john mcpain ?)
Oh boy, it looks like 11:59 pm. Do you know where your elected officials stand ?
Saturday, January 2, 2010
The Black Hole Known As Government
Before our illustrious Imperial Senate begins its "investigation" of the failed Underwear Bomber attack in Detroit, I'd like to hand over the real culprit of the caper:
The Black Hole Known As Government.
Yes, like one of those looney tune Truthers, let me be the first to officially blame the the whole Underwear Bomber affair on the federal government. No, I don't think it was distract us from the Obamacareless debate, nor do I believe it was intentionally done, so we can be dragged into a war. (I may be fat, but I'm not the Right's answer to Michael Moore.) No, once again, just like every problem we've had since the beginning of the 20th Century, this problem was caused by a federal government that has become a black hole--a tear in the space/time continuum. Now, unlike the black holes in space, this black hole sucks up money and common sense into a place so dense nothing can escape.
I don't really think at this point we can blame one person. There's too much blame to go around. That's because, like a black hole in space, the federal government has gotten so big and destructive, one can not honestly just blame one person for this foul up. For example, Chairman Obama, like an automaton, blamed his predecessor Bush, claiming the security system we have in place was four years old and it was something he inherited. (Hmmm...Where have we heard that before ?) The Democrats quickly blamed Jim DeMint, who held up the confirmation of Obama's head of the TSA, Erroll Southers, who wanted the TSA workers to unionize. It's sort of like a game of "telephone" that doesn't end when you get to the end of the room, it ends when another 3000 Americans die needlessly.
The bottom line is this: A mistake was made because the government has become massive. The left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing. When bureaucracies become so ridiculously massive, agencies can't coordinate their efforts. That's obvious because The Underwear Bomber's own father ratted him out in Nigeria and yet, our impotent government did nothing. The NSA intercepted al-Qaeda communicades about using a Nigerian man for an attack---umm....Hello, Mcfly! The worst part of it is, Abdulmutallab was already on a terror watch list!
How much longer until we're all sucked in ?
The Black Hole Known As Government.
Yes, like one of those looney tune Truthers, let me be the first to officially blame the the whole Underwear Bomber affair on the federal government. No, I don't think it was distract us from the Obamacareless debate, nor do I believe it was intentionally done, so we can be dragged into a war. (I may be fat, but I'm not the Right's answer to Michael Moore.) No, once again, just like every problem we've had since the beginning of the 20th Century, this problem was caused by a federal government that has become a black hole--a tear in the space/time continuum. Now, unlike the black holes in space, this black hole sucks up money and common sense into a place so dense nothing can escape.
I don't really think at this point we can blame one person. There's too much blame to go around. That's because, like a black hole in space, the federal government has gotten so big and destructive, one can not honestly just blame one person for this foul up. For example, Chairman Obama, like an automaton, blamed his predecessor Bush, claiming the security system we have in place was four years old and it was something he inherited. (Hmmm...Where have we heard that before ?) The Democrats quickly blamed Jim DeMint, who held up the confirmation of Obama's head of the TSA, Erroll Southers, who wanted the TSA workers to unionize. It's sort of like a game of "telephone" that doesn't end when you get to the end of the room, it ends when another 3000 Americans die needlessly.
The bottom line is this: A mistake was made because the government has become massive. The left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing. When bureaucracies become so ridiculously massive, agencies can't coordinate their efforts. That's obvious because The Underwear Bomber's own father ratted him out in Nigeria and yet, our impotent government did nothing. The NSA intercepted al-Qaeda communicades about using a Nigerian man for an attack---umm....Hello, Mcfly! The worst part of it is, Abdulmutallab was already on a terror watch list!
How much longer until we're all sucked in ?
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