TRAGEDY OF BIG GOVERNMENT -- Whether It's A Hurricane Or Home Security, Why Failure Is Guaranteed!

ICONOCLAST ^ | by R. Bastiat

[Apolitical]

"The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design."
--Friedrich A. Hayek, The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism, 1988

After the Hurricane Katrina debacle, the Medicare drug bill fiasco, the pork barrel spending explosion, the dubious federal takeover of education, the dysfunctional war on drugs, the 9/11 intelligence shortfall, the homeland security paralysis, and countless other policy malfunctions dating back to the New Deal and the Great Society, does any American still believe that big government can improve our lives and protect our freedoms?

Sadly enough, the answer seems to be "yes" -- and apparently now more than ever. With lunatic fervor, statist ideologues have seized on these monumental screw-ups -- not to acknowledge the futility of government interventions, but to argue, in total disregard of logic and evidence, that the only remedy is even bigger and more-intrusive federal action............

[Apolitical]

We are heading for national disaster unless someone in Washington comes to their senses -- which, unfortunately, isn't likely! Is this how the decline and fall of the American emprire begins?

[kjo]

VOTE LIBERTARIAN!

[deport]

The system however flawed is still better than the other options......

Vote 3rd party that ought to fix it.

[TSchmereL]

It seems like George W. Bush, whom we would expect to be working to fix some of these problems, is actually part of the problem.

[rob777]

It seems like George W. Bush, whom we would expect to be working to fix some of these problems, is actually part of the problem.






I never expected that he would work to fix the problem. He ran as a big government "compassionate conservative" in 2000 and has been delivering the goods. We need to change directions in 2008.

[OldFriend]

We need to rely on our own selves, not the government.

We can be prepared for just about any emergency with a small amount of common sense.

The government is not my nanny, thank you.

[Jacquerie]

VOTE LIBERTARIAN . . . and elect a rat.

[i.l.e.]

Been there, done that, bought the ranch and got 8 years of Clinton. If we hadn't voted for Perot - we could have avoided Clinton.

Blaming Bush for the problems of 400 million people makes no sense. The presidency is not designed for micro-management. Vote third party and you will get what you deserve. More death, more taxes and Hillary Care.

[deport]

Vote third party and you will get what you deserve. More death, more taxes and Hillary Care.

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Some on this forum swear that voting 3rd party is the only way. Others swear that sitting out the process this time is best.

Sure you can blame the President for all the failures.... Don'tcha know he's a dictator with ironclad control over all of government? Heck we don't need the legislature nor judicary if you believe some around here. The President runs it all.

[Owl558]

Those who forget their Reagan are doomed to repeat it.

Government IS the problem!

[rob777]

Blaming Bush for the problems of 400 million people makes no sense.





True, but neither does exempting him from sharing part of the blame. He has been more a part of the problem than a part of the solution. People like Mike Pence have at least tried to be part of a solution.

[Reagan Man]

>>>> .... never expected that he would work to fix the problem. He ran as a big government "compassionate conservative" in 2000 and has been delivering the goods.

I don't remember Bush running as a big government Republican. Compassionate conervative, yes.

"Gore offers an old and tired approach. He offers a new federal spending program to nearly every voting bloc. He expands entitlements, without reforms to sustain them. 285 new or expanded programs, and $2 trillion more in new spending. Spending without discipline, spending without priorities, and spending without an end. Al Gore’s massive spending would mean slower growth and higher taxes. And it could mean an end to this nation’s prosperity."

---- George W.Bush, Speech in Minneapolis, Minnesota Nov 1, 2000

Cut national debt by $2T in 10 years; leave $1.2T in debt

"President Bush’s budget plan will seek to put the nation on a course to pay off $2 trillion of the national debt over the next 10 years, leaving $1.2 trillion of debt at the end of that period. After several years of bipartisan consensus about the desirability of extinguishing as much debt as quickly as possible, with the goal of bringing it to zero in a decade or a little longer, Bush will say that bringing it below $1.2 trillion in that period, much less wiping it out entirely, will be all but impossible."

The debt ceiling was just raised to $9-trilion, up from $5.7-trillion when Bush took office.

[Irontank]

Those who forget their Reagan are doomed to repeat it.

The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help
--Ronald Reagan

[Just another Joe]

Vote third party and you will get what you deserve. More death, more taxes and Hillary Care.

Vote anything else and you're gonna get more of the same, whether it's from the DemoncRATS or the Republicrats.

If no one votes third party, do you really expect to change either of the other partys from the inside? Good luck.

[mancogasuki]

Owl558 for President.

[Thom Pain]

I agree. The approach is to vote for the closest fit (Republican) and then pummel them to move more and more to the conservative policies/programs. I believe the Harriet Myers and Dubai ports episodes proved the merit of raising our voices.

[deport]

There are 435 little chiefs and 100 big chiefs that control and run this government to a large degree. They stay in office most of the time as long as they desire. Few get voted out in any one cycle. It is their power, ego and pork projects that ultimately keep the cycle going.

Yes, I agree that hammering on them as hard as you can will help when it is organized across the nation. But it is so hard to have much impact on a congress critter that has some 635,000 constituents and usually something less than 35% or so of them continue to send him/her back every two years.

[deport]

Avoided Bill Clinton? What good would that have done?

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Don't know for sure but it may well have been that a second term for #41 would have meant that #43 wouldn't have ever been elected.

[Stat-boy]

Can’t disagree with your facts; but you did omit at least one important matter: Supreme Court nominations.