Congress in Wonderland

American Thinker ^ | 05 25 2007 | Gerd Schroeder

[MPforeignER]

May 25, 2007

Congress in Wonderland By Gerd Schroeder

The children's book Alice In Wonderland, tells a charming story of a girl trying to make sense of a senseless imaginary world. Our national defense seems to be caught in an oddly similar story, which is, unfortunately, not a harmless imagined child's story, and not at all charming

In the story the white rabbit (the Military) is at the Mad Hatter's birthday party (the Capitol building). The white rabbit tells the Mad Hatter (Congress) that we are late (we need to fix the Military). So the Mad Hatter breaks the rabbit's watch (the military budget), puts jam and butter into the watch (cuts the funding), then tells the rabbit that the watch will still work.

The third rail of politics is Social Security. A US politician is loath to even talk about cutting Social Security, or any other entitlement program. What rail is the national defense? According to the vote that just came out of the House of Representatives, defense funding is not a constitutionally mandated requirement; instead, they view the military budget as a cookie jar, to be raided at will by politicians looking to buy votes. Confused politicians will fight tooth and nail for the entitlements that they use to buy votes; but in their one, enumerated, single most important constitutional duty, "provide for the common defense", they view national defense as nothing more than a suggestion.

[OneLoyalAmerican]

Greetings MPforeignER:

Great comparisons. Unfortunately, pandering politicians fail to understand that when our enemies chant “Death to America,” they really mean death to America.

What our Nation really lacks today are Statesmen.

Cheers,
OLA

[neverdem]

BTTT!