“It is the responsibility of the patriot to protect his country from it’s government.” – Thomas Paine
The government needs to relearn its place.
Big Brother is not about to “relearn” his place until WE THE PEOPLE teach him what that place is in NO UNCERTAIN TERMS.
Pass it on.
“It is the responsibility of the patriot to protect his country from it’s government.” – Thomas Paine
Wow. That first paragraph pretty well sums it up. Thanks for posting.
I am sorry. To the people like this author who hint at "Buyer's Remorse" only now, I say this:
Anyone who even remotely believed that Obama would not have been anything beyond a raging Marxist Liberal when he got into office is either too stupid to vote, or mentally ill.
There was ample evidence of his ideology, associations, and lies well before the November election.
Excellent post. Thanks.
Terrific.
Everyone should put this up on the front of the refrigerator and read it once a week.
Blame enough to go around for both Dems and Repubs. Enough of the clueless blooksuckers in Washington.
Imagine the citizens of this country as the owners of a company, and our elected officials, as the managers of this company.
In the business world, managers can suggest or encourage the company owners on a course of action, but should they act in a manner that damages the company, without approval of the ownership, they would be fired.
If our government were a business, many of our elected officials would be up on charges of embezzlement. If it were up to me, I'd fire them all and start fresh.
Here is a case were “management” gives itself raises with no ties to increased production or general benefit to the company. Where “management” constantly spends more than is budgeted and then has the gall to tell the owners that the issue is not that they are overspending, but that the owners did not give then a big enough budget to begin with.
We have a case where the “management” is telling the owners that they are just too ignorant to know how to run their own company and that the owners shoud just sit down, shut up, and hand over their wallets.
If “management” hadn't made themselves exempt from many of the laws they themselves enact, I think it wouldn't be too hard to prosecute them on RICO grounds.
The real job of “management” is to make the company better. When was the last time this happened?
Can you tell how disgusting I find the current “management”?
Good post, I think the author makes an excellent point about Bush governing as he said he would. In fact, Bush made an honest effort to “change the tone” and be “bi-partisan”, but it did not survive the actions he took after 9/11.
And for that I don’t blame Bush, but the left and the dems. They saw Bush becoming very popular and they determined that he must be destroyed. Not that Bush doesn’t deserve some blame for his own failures, but mostly he deserves blame for not fighting back against the campaign of hatred against him, which started before he ran for re-election.
I really thought on 9/11 that we’d never have a democratic president again in my lifetime, now we have the big O. He’s enough of a left wing, soft on terror, soft on crime, democrat for 3 lifetimes at least.
Hopefully after him we’ll be done with them.
Excellent.
This is an excellent article that needs to be distributed far and wide. I’ll do my share.
bttt
“The government needs to relearn its place.”
I believe that message is beginning to resonate: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rRE5UK6NQU
Not to sound like a curmudgeon or anything, but as a member of the 28%, I actually listened to what the man said and had said in the past, and saw no reason to doubt that he would be exactly what he has shown himself to be.
The article dances amid bromides and refuses to state a single actual principle.
The people want all the hopey changee good stuff without any of the mean paying for it. Then they can't understand why the glad handing pols fail to give them both.
If the people don't want to pay for the boondoggles, all they have to do is vote for men promising to zero them all out. Instead they smear every such person as mean or as a hypocrite and vote for the hopey changee liars.
It is reality that the populace can't handle, not the pols. Sure the pols are no better. But realism is nowhere to be found among the politically powerful, whether pols or the even more powerful voters.
A few experts know what is actually feasible, and everyone dumps on them and calls them names.
At bottom, the frustration is simply this - political power cannot avoid reality in the slightest particular. But men are interested in it for nothing else than escaping from reality.