The problem is government


Looking through my previous posts
I was looking at some of my old posts, and some of them still apply.

Like part of this one from September 17, 2005.

It's still the All-Knowing Benevolent & Powerful Government swooping in to do That Which People Are Unable to Do for Themselves.

It's STILL statism.

LBJ would recognize it as a successor to the Great Society.

It doesn't matter what trappings it wears. Or what conservative costumes it has dragged from the closet.

It's still S-T-A-T-I-S-M.

"Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain."

Just for a moment, let's step back from the fact that this disaster was a compound case of human incompetence that we only noticed because the hurricane broke the levees.

Let's assume that your neighbor wants you to pay for his privacy fence. Well, that might not be so bad, you don't particularly want to look into his yard anyway.

Except the man is only your neighbor in the most general of terms. He lives across town.

And he wants you to pay for his car insurance too.

Did I mention that he has a seventeen year old son who likes to race the car?

Or the fact that the car is maintained by his fourteen year old niece who looks at it on alternate Tuesdays?

And that every weekend, he wants to switch cars with you?

Somewhere between a privacy fence and a levee and long before Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans ceased to be a local problem and a local responsibility.

And now, your government, without asking you, has decided to stick you with the bill.

Which might be padded just a bit.

Now, will any of the locals be able to decide how those billions will be spent?

Not very likely.

Will the Federal government still be expected to turn on the cash for the next major disaster?

Almost certainly.

How is this NOT statism?

I could change a handful of words and make that about the Imperious Leader Obama today.

Or there is this one from February 20, 2006.

The Democrats are different. It's not that their policy objectives or goals are all that different from the Republicans, it's that Democrats aren't calling the shots. That's enough to make them furious at George W. Bush.

There is no practical difference between the two major parties. Oh, one makes noises about the War on Terror, but that is only because their guy wasn't elected to make the decisions.

Both have abused government power in the past. And given the smidgen of a chance, both would embrace abusing power in the future.

The problem isn't the parties you see. The problem is government power.

Five words changed and it's instantly relevant.

Or this entire post, I do not trust in the wisdom of governments.

Sometimes I swear, I should just set up the site to randomly combine phrases.

I think that's all I have to say today.

— NeoWayland

Posted: Sat - January 31, 2009 at 01:08 PM  Tag


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