Years ago, Ronald Reagan said this, and it has stayed with me since I heard it: "Government is not the solution to our problems. Government is the problem". Yet, in our current troubles, the president proposes naught but more government programs, thinking after the Keynesian equation that to raise GDP and elevate society he can simply increase government spending.
The fact of the matter is, that Government programs don't work efficiently if they work at all. When people complain about the facilities at this college, several faculty have boiled it down to "lowest bid" as the excuse. It's a government institution, and much of what happens here doesn't give you good value.
Michigan started this great "green jobs" initiative. In a rare moment of candidness, the Washington Post reports today that Granholm's panacea produced problems. Since 2003, under her watch, the state has lost 630,000 jobs. She claims that "she" has created 163,000 jobs in that time, and she promises 40,000 more in the next 11 years, but that still leaves 400,000 people net out of work, assuming that between now and then NOT A SINGLE ADDITIONAL JOB IS LOST.
Liberal fiscal policy has driven companies out of that state, like it does all around the country. The fastest way to create jobs is to cut taxes, but in Nevada, they just raised our sales tax, our car registration tax, and expenses for state employees like myself. Politicians talk about "unrestrained capitalism", but that has never existed in my lifetime, and I suspect that it hasn't existed in theirs either.
No government official understands or cares about your situation as much as you do. You are not real to them. How can any senator know all of his constituents? It boggles my mind in this state, and yet the californians, with 30 times our population, claim to know the minds of all those people. Wow, they must be so efficient with their time. I've seen "Bruce Almighty", and if I had 2 million emails to answer every day, I am certain I could not answer them all. I am a great man, but I'm not that great.
I believe in Federalism as defined by the Founders. They knew that the concentration of power at the head was the soil in which tyranny takes root and flourishes. They intended the Township, and at worst the State, to be the seat of most power, where the people could influence the policy enacted by people they could actually reach, and if not, they could move to another township or state. By the time of FDR, the Township was dead. By the time FDR died, the States had been emasculated. FDR, if not for his death, might well have been, as was Ceasar, elected Dictator for Life.
There may be great men in office, but remember that they are still men. No man is perfect in his knowledge, his motives, or his actions. That's why the Constitution's firewalls, as Madison said, provided controls on politicians as a means to protect the people. Besides that, most of these men never have to deal with unexpected consequences. They are not in office when the bill comes due. Said Mark Levin: "The government cannot do this- all these phony promises. They never live up to them, and 20 years from now if they institute this crap, where will Obama be? He’ll be retired, living the good life, historic president…while other presidents are struggling with it."
Government is the problem. It always has been. We have too much of it and an insufficient amount of internal self-control.
Proper government begins with proper behavior, and proper behavior is taught in the home.
The fact of the matter is, that Government programs don't work efficiently if they work at all. When people complain about the facilities at this college, several faculty have boiled it down to "lowest bid" as the excuse. It's a government institution, and much of what happens here doesn't give you good value.
Michigan started this great "green jobs" initiative. In a rare moment of candidness, the Washington Post reports today that Granholm's panacea produced problems. Since 2003, under her watch, the state has lost 630,000 jobs. She claims that "she" has created 163,000 jobs in that time, and she promises 40,000 more in the next 11 years, but that still leaves 400,000 people net out of work, assuming that between now and then NOT A SINGLE ADDITIONAL JOB IS LOST.
Liberal fiscal policy has driven companies out of that state, like it does all around the country. The fastest way to create jobs is to cut taxes, but in Nevada, they just raised our sales tax, our car registration tax, and expenses for state employees like myself. Politicians talk about "unrestrained capitalism", but that has never existed in my lifetime, and I suspect that it hasn't existed in theirs either.
No government official understands or cares about your situation as much as you do. You are not real to them. How can any senator know all of his constituents? It boggles my mind in this state, and yet the californians, with 30 times our population, claim to know the minds of all those people. Wow, they must be so efficient with their time. I've seen "Bruce Almighty", and if I had 2 million emails to answer every day, I am certain I could not answer them all. I am a great man, but I'm not that great.
I believe in Federalism as defined by the Founders. They knew that the concentration of power at the head was the soil in which tyranny takes root and flourishes. They intended the Township, and at worst the State, to be the seat of most power, where the people could influence the policy enacted by people they could actually reach, and if not, they could move to another township or state. By the time of FDR, the Township was dead. By the time FDR died, the States had been emasculated. FDR, if not for his death, might well have been, as was Ceasar, elected Dictator for Life.
There may be great men in office, but remember that they are still men. No man is perfect in his knowledge, his motives, or his actions. That's why the Constitution's firewalls, as Madison said, provided controls on politicians as a means to protect the people. Besides that, most of these men never have to deal with unexpected consequences. They are not in office when the bill comes due. Said Mark Levin: "The government cannot do this- all these phony promises. They never live up to them, and 20 years from now if they institute this crap, where will Obama be? He’ll be retired, living the good life, historic president…while other presidents are struggling with it."
Government is the problem. It always has been. We have too much of it and an insufficient amount of internal self-control.
Proper government begins with proper behavior, and proper behavior is taught in the home.
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