Gloomy Tuesday

It's cloudy out. Haven't seen the sun for a few days. I don't really feel like writing anything. Fortunately, I've got Ron to fill in for days like today.

As far back as I can remember, people have been grumbling that everybody complains about the weather but nobody does anything about it. Seems to me that's precisely what's wrong with government today: it's fatally flawed and becoming more dangerous by the day, but nobody's trying to fix it.

Examples abound to show us what happens when government gets too complex or too corrupt or too big for its britches, too quick to interfere in the business of the individual states or counties or cities, or individuals. We have histories of empires and kingdoms and republics and socialism and fascism and juntas and communism to show us what's good and what's bad about government, but we're either too stupid or too lazy to read the handwriting on the wall.

We've allowed our government to grow from a lean, loyal, efficient servant to a ravenous self-feeding parasite which is beginning to choke the life out of the very system that feeds it. The people who live here, in the meantime (both legally and illegally), are becoming more concerned with what they can get from the government in aid and benefits and relief than what they might earn through honest work.

The leader of our government today is clearly more interested in building and preserving his political legacy than in dealing with crucial issues that threaten the nation's economic health and physical security. He's more concerned about campaigning for his own future than for correcting problems for the country's future. His instinctive approach to every problem is to threaten and belittle those who disagree with his policies but offer no more than rhetoric and doubletalk where realistic solutions are needed.

In fact, instead of giving us ethical, intelligent, decisive leadership, our last three CEOs can be summed up in three words: corrupt, inept, and unprepped, each word applying to all three in one way or another.

Why did the mighty Roman empire fall? What led to the twilight of that Great British empire upon which the sun never set? And what will bring about the dismantling of the richest, greatest, most generous superpower the world has ever known? Oh, lots of factors. Here's a short list to consider:

Abandonment of traditional values

Contempt for cultural continuity

Total emphasis on rights of the accused at victims' expense

Political correctness replacing genuine respect and common decency

Disposal of all laws and regulations governing immorality and aberrant behavior

Scorn for time-honored moral virtues and ethical practices

Widespread approval of feminization of boys and men

Urgency for passing micromanagement legislation while failing to use laws already in place

Double standards for politicians and cronies

Obscene wastes of taxpayer money on boondoggles and pork

Boldfaced lies and equivocations during election campaigns

Welfare fraud

MediCare fraud

MedicAid fraud

Voter fraud

Social Security fraud

Insurance fraud

Deception in advertising

Abuse of power

Triggering capital flight by oppressive taxation of the wealthy

Service unions

ACORN

The RACE card trumping all other suits

Theft of states' rights by central government

Unelected "Czars" circumventing the Constitution

PotUS bowing to decadent kings and figurehead emperors

Spinmeisters

The nature of our problem with government is that it's totally beyond the control of the people from whom it derives its just powers in the first place. It's become so big and complex that no one can control it because no one is capable of understanding it. When a bill is introduced in the House that is so long and complicated that members would need weeks to read it, the process is no longer manageable. And when the President and House Leader demand a vote on it before its final form has even been determined, the process has become thuggish and laughable, like kindergartners trying to decide whether to play Texas Hold'em or duplicate bridge during recess when they should be outside playing baseball.

The cycle has achieved stable orbit around the Beltway and now derives its energy from the draft of its own passage through Congress. It will repeat itself over and over until the Chinese finally say, "O.K. That's enough. We want our money back."

The tree of liberty needs to be fertilized from time to time with the blood of tyrants, idiots, and seditionists. And something needs to be done with all those tons of unwanted feathers from Tyson Farms. I'm sure the big oil companies have plenty of sludge anytime we need it.

Speaking of the Chinese wanting their money back did you see the SNL video of the press conference between Jug Hussein Ears and the head Chinese dude? If not here it is.

Did Wolf Blitzer fact check this like he did the last SNL skit on JHE? We only owe China $800 billion? Too bad SNL couldn't use the real term, which is "zipless fuck".