Stupid or Evil – Pick One or Both

George Rebane

Boy, are we getting what we deserve.  The USSR in the depths of the Cold War could not have prescribed a more draconian regimen of self-destruction for the United States than the one we ourselves are putting in place.  Its architects are the terminally corrupt politicians in Washington who are cheered on by at least half the population.  Now for some current particulars for those still harboring doubts about the premise –

• The ObamaCare bill coming out of Congress is the first of several poison pills we are concocting.  Its yawning flaws are becoming apparent even to some (but only some) of the faithful.  Jeffrey S. Flier MD, dean of the Harvard Medical School, explains here.
• Waxman-Markey (cap’n tax) should be dead on arrival, but it isn’t.  Copenhagen will not replace Kyoto, but Obama will seek to shoot us in the foot in any case.  The pious Europeans have yet to meet any of their carbon cutback targets, yet carping about ‘US leadership’ is keeping our environuts in a high level of agitation shouting their mantra, ‘The debate is over, the debate is over, hurry up and pass the goddam thing before they catch on!!’
• The first three tranches of unfunded stimulus monies have not worked, now let’s get set to launch another one as election season approaches.  Never mind the definition of insanity, there are votes to be bought.  Besides von Mises’ ‘Do nothing, sooner.’, there are alternatives for government intervention that may actually help (see here)
• Washington’s crash and burn policies are performing so badly that government lying has been switched to the wholesale level.  As an example, witness the nationwide reports compiled by the White House on Obama’s patently ludicrous jobs ‘created and saved’.  If there are none in real congressional districts, then let’s make up some virtual districts.
• Internationally, China is lecturing us on how to run an economy and advising against ObamaCare and cap’n tax.  As our biggest creditor, they have a vested interest in our economy, so their advice is more than sincere.  Don’t hold your breath, the DC dolts have tin ears and sinecures to maintain.
• Anyone who has tracked Iran’s wily ways knew last spring that the mullahs were going to take the community organizer for a ride on the next round of ‘oh sure, we’ll just send our uranium out of the country and it’ll come back all civilized and peaceful’.  Even the eternally negotiating defenseless Europeans wouldn’t hold their breath for this one; but not the junior birdman from Chicago.  So now the towelheads have stiffed us again.  We’re messing with a culture that was proficient in duping naïfs like us before Caesar drew his last.  (Notice how quiet the MSM is on this.)
• As a final shot in the shorts, the Potomac pinheads still don’t know the difference between illegal aliens and H1-B visa immigrants.  As soon as they dust themselves off, to the former we grant more civil rights and benefits than to our citizens.  But going through legal channels, the latter have to wait ten to twenty years to set their boots on US soil.  The trouble is that our industries need the H1-B guys something fierce, why? Because they can push squigglies (you know, those funny looking equations and stuff) and create wealth, which our kids don’t do so good no more.  But have we got self-esteem.

So this is the current course of our ship of state – pick your own iceberg, we’re sailing into a passel of them.  Oh yes, our President is still trying to get that pesky eightball with the little window to give him the correct answer on Afghanistan.  What did Thomas Jefferson say?

A nation ignorant and free, that never was and never shall be.

Comments

[Mikey McD]

Chin up Rebane! America's liberty and greatness were earned by underdogs! Those with common sense are waking up... it seems our politicians forgot an important protocol relating to their "bought and paid for" agendas... "never wake a sleeping [under]dog."

Our economy would have been much better off (today and down the road) had our government allowed a 2008 income tax holiday instead of the American Redistribution and Re-Election Act (stimulus). The ARRA was never about stimulating anything but the size and scope of government.