Mama, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to be Cowboy Poets

www.joytiz.com ^ | 3/9/11 | Joy Tiz

[jazminerose]

This is what Democrats mean when they wail about Draconian budget cuts being proposed by Republicans. Their leader, Harry Reid defined the debate perfectly when he simpered about the potential loss of taxpayer funding for a cowboy poetry museum.

Perhaps a cowboy poetry museum is a worthy addition to the community. That’s the wrong focus. The issue with any government funded program isn’t whether someone benefits from it. We have to ask whether the Constitution allows it.

Republicans have done a lousy job of defining the issue. Rather than point out that there is no Constitutional basis for most government programs, they get sucked into arguments about the merits of government programs.

If indeed the world needs a cowboy poetry museum–and who am I to say it doesn’t–it should be awash in private funding.

But, that isn’t really the core of the matter. We expect liberals to want to waste tax payer money on nonsensical or downright destructive feel good programs. Republicans should be taking the lead and begin the process of defunding programs not supported by the Constitution.

Had we done that all along, our economy would be just fine. And our culture would be far less putrified.

(Joy Tiz is the author of Obamanutz: a Cult Leader Takes the White House)

[andy58-in-nh]

I had to smile at that forgotten little piece of Americana, as immortalized by Dr. Demento.