June 2, 2011

Congressional spending it differs in degree, but not kind, from that uglier part of our history where black people were forcibly used to serve the purposes of their slave masters.

The language Congress uses to describe their spending is corrupt beyond redemption. Think about the term entitlement. If one American is entitled to something he didn't earn, where in the world does Congress get the money? It's not Santa or the Tooth Fairy. The only way Congress can give one American a dollar is to first take it from another American. Therefore, an entitlement is a congressionally given right for one American to live at the expense of another. In other words, Congress forcibly uses one American to serve the purposes of another American. As such, it differs in degree, but not kind, from that uglier part of our history where black people were forcibly used to serve the purposes of their slave masters. -- Do We Deserve Our Fate? - Page 1 - Walter E. Williams - Townhall Conservative
Posted by Vanderleun at June 2, 2011 9:43 PM
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And who was it that voted in the band of shysters who currently inhabit Congress?

All citizens of the USA are responsible for this mess. For not voting at all. For voting in corruption. For voting in the candidates, if you happen to be in one of the parties. For not bringing forward someone more attractive than the crooks and crazies as candidates.

The GOP, for example, is one of the culprits here. There are some candidates who should never have been brought forward as Presidential candidate, for example, because they are zealots whom nobody whatsoever who is not strongly religious is ever going to vote. As an example, if I was American Mitt Romney would NEVER get my vote.

GOP candidates in 2012, most likely? A devout Mormon (whom most people in the rest of the world and many people in America think is a crackpot cultist simply by being in the LDS church) and an airhead who can't point out major countries on a map - but will have authority to bomb them, nonetheless, should she ever get into the big chair.

By the way, the USA is not the only country similarly cursed. In the UK we voted in Blair, three times, after all. And currently we have an upper-class twit as PM, a watermelon green as deputy and a dull-as-ditchwater party apparatchik as Opposition leader. And it's our fault.

Posted by: Fletcher Christian at June 2, 2011 11:14 PM

This is very true, very frustrating, and very disheartening. This situation can almost push certain people over the edge.

Posted by: Cilla Mitchell, Galveston Texas at June 3, 2011 4:08 AM

I see Fletch is an avid consumer of Progressive propaganda, which of course is only to be expected.

I keep seeing complaints that our political/ruling class is unexpectedly incompetent. Bullshit. This is what a political and ruling class looks like, people. This is what rises to the top, whereupon we're obliged to call it "cream". When Hammurabi invented record-keeping and regulations, this is what he got, and nothing but technicalities has changed since then. Courtier for Louis Quinze or apparatchik under Stalin doesn't matter. Either one could slide into White House or Congressional staff, or the management levels at EPA, and not cause a ripple once he'd learned the terminology.

We don't notice them because they're uniquely bad. We notice them because they didn't used to matter much. It is the basic argument to justify limiting Government.

Posted by: Ric Locke at June 3, 2011 5:50 AM

Well said Ric, and justification for a generational culling.

Posted by: Casca at June 3, 2011 7:16 AM

The architects of the American experiment held the belief that the best way to control government power was not to grant it, and for those limited functions which must be exercised, to bind each power down through competing interest of government. But branches of government are no longer hostile to the interests of one another, quite the contrary--all dog and pony shows aside.

I wonder if the Founders would be unnerved at where we have arrived, or instead give credit that it took us so long to get here.

Posted by: james wilson at June 3, 2011 8:48 AM

Listen to yourself, Casca.

Who gets the handle of that knife, and who the blade? The question answers itself. Anybody who'd volunteer to do the "culling" isn't fit to associate with human beings.

Regards,
Ric

Posted by: Ric Locke at June 3, 2011 10:32 AM

We don't even need to go back as far as slavery in the U.S. to find examples of the evils of Big Government. I think we are being primed for an even bigger government than the the monster in DC.

Posted by: RedCarolina at June 3, 2011 2:06 PM

Cesspool theory of management holds true for gov't and large bureaucracies = the biggest pieces float to the top.

Holds here it seems.

Cream. Ooookay......

Posted by: Robohobo at June 3, 2011 2:13 PM

Ric, I should think that the same sorts who shouldered arms with Washington would do. I know a lot of them.

Posted by: Casca at June 5, 2011 7:00 AM