Down With the People

Blame the childish, ignorant American public—not politicians—for our political and economic crisis.

The author berates Scott Brown's belief that spending can be reduced by looking for waste, fraud and abuse. I agree with that berating, but only because a former state legislator like Brown isn't looking hard enough at the big picture.

Here in Oregon we have:

A Department of Education, so either the federal or the state version is redundant or wholly unnecessary.
A Department of Agriculture, so ditto.
A Department of Veteran's Affairs. . . .
A Department of Transportation. . . .
An Office of Medical Assistance Programs. . . .
An (Un)Employment Division. . . .
And that's just the tip of the iceberg.

I'm thinking that were I to find myself in the US Senate, that most of these programs, if not totally useless, do not require double administration and bureaucracy to run effectively. So which one should be gutted? The federal one of course. The central government was supposed to have few and limited powers and the states much less restrained as the local voters could more ably hold their own governments to account unlike the distant one in the swamp.

Scott Brown needs to wake up to the possibilities and the liberals can just suck it.

The socialist are so out of touch with the people that they cannot ans will not see that it isn’t that we simultaneously want things but reject solutions, it is that we reject THEIR heavy handed, one size fits all approach to everything. For instance, their solution to people without health care is to FORCE people to buy it and then threaten them fines and jail if they don’t.

“...free Scooter from the Scooter Store.”

I’ve wondered about that for a long time. Can’t find any research on how that works. Did find it mentioned in one of the “health bills” proposed. The gov of course would take over all scooters.

There’s a story in there I know there is.

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