The Leveller: A modern day regulator

Evil under the sun

Unparalleled detriment too depressing and tedious to contemplate with the systematic plundering of the productive states by the unproductive federal bureaucracy.

This is a back breaker. I can’t even put words together to describe the enmity I have towards these cowards. Just as cowardice as members under Bush leadership who feigned strength only out of ignorance as it belied their true character.

And now I’ll be the first to not only predict him as a candidate but also eventual winner of the next presidential election in the U.S. in 2012. I also intimated during the 2008 campaigns that we are in for a series of one term presidents due mainly to a degrading economy and a dissatisfied public. I’m aware of Cheney’s recent “bold” prediction of Obama being a one term president but he is unaware of the cause. It won’t stop with Obama.

The American people spoke decisively against a big government, high tax, Washington knows best, pro trial lawyer centralized bureaucratic health system

No, they didn’t speak decisively, Gingrich. They spoke, at best, decisively in 2008 against Bush more than for Obama which simply invited only more big government after the precedent landmarks achieved during eight years of the Bush administration and only to be bested by the next 4 years of Obama. So the folly of big government continues until it fails on all sides.

Until that failure no matter which party rules Washington the American people will always be the losers.

Following the letter of the law but not the spirit is also a tactic used by oppressive governments such as the modern United States through a looser interpretation of the Constitution.

This “rules lawyering”, currently by the Obama administration and the majority in Congress is only the latest in a sequence of a long line of abrogation of the intent of the Constitution itself. Therefore, it is the document itself that is the problem. It was an unnecessary aberration in another wise magnanimous historical time during the late 1700’s.

However, here we are today with nitwits regardless of party affiliation that rule the day. Why anyone still considers differentiating people by political party affiliation as if that makes the person different in any useful manner is simply dumb.

I’m not a professional economist, a lawyer, a doctor, a military general, or a politician. But I have known people that have chosen to dedicate their entire life in pursuit of a career in either of these fields and none of them, “friends” or “associates” have ever demonstrated an appreciation of the principles of a limited government but rather have more or less melded into one of two sides of a political coin. While successful in their respective life long endeavors they also like most people think they are “smarter than average” when in fact they are only average, thats what most people are, just average, and therefore why it is called average. Even so, smart people make dumb decisions all the time. Moreover, it is not unreasonable to say that only a small segment of people currently understand and appreciate the merits of a limited government. May be we aren’t any smarter. But I feel we were smart enough to know the gargantuan mistakes being made in each major case of outlandish federal government action better than any lawyer, economist, doctor, politician, or military member I’ve ever known.

Here is the justification for some of the most outlandish Statist decisions in the last 10 years.

Bush on bailout “the right thing to do”.
Bush on Iraq war “the right thing to do”.
Cheney on Iraq war “the right thing to do”.
Obama on health care “the right thing to do”.
Pelosi on health care “the right thing to do”.

When these people are engaged in a “lively debate” on the respective topic they all ultimately retort, when pushed for justification, by saying “well…wasn’t it the right thing to do?” Instead of exercising restraint morally and ethically they, like most average people, refuse to acknowledge the inconsistencies of a beatnik political philosophy and become sophist. Committing egregious blunders without ever really owning up to a their dumb decision.

What we have is a continuation of the pathology of the normal or let us say average and with it a more salient angle noted here:

…the idea that what seems normal can actually be pathological, and the psychologist Abraham Maslow, who said that healthy individuation requires resisting unhealthy enculturation. We are swimming in unhealthy enculturation at the moment…

One problem is not only congressional representatives and the executive branch support universal health care but rather a large portion of the public supports it. Not only have elected leaders ignored or flubbed the constitution but a large segment of the American public are actually encouraged by it. That to me is a especially worrisome.

But the same symbolic narrative that “led” the duplicitous public to support malfeasance and Constitutional misdeeds in the last administration is employed yet again to lead this nation into the abyss. Tea parties be damned, many people are enticed and invite this type of largess the Democrats are enacting.

More people are getting sicker and older and need increasing medical care so therefore these people, mostly of the baby boom generation, first and second generation immigrants, who are comfortable with a large central government role think the notions of an allegedly free society and highly coupled federal authority are compatible. However, the way of life that led people to leave their native land in pursuit of happiness here in America could not have existed with such a large central governing body that dictates just about everything. It has only lasted until this moment in spite of an ever growing federalization.

Clearly if America’s own home grown population doesn’t understand the guiding principles that contributed to America being known as the land of the free certainly foreigners won’t understand it either. Or if they do, tacitly reject it anyway for what they know, central control and authority, just as many destitute Russians are living today, pining for a return of Lenin. Better to have lived in darkness than die in the light. Russia today

The constitutional underpinning such as it exists in form in the U.S. is unique compared to other contemporaries. Remember other nation-states started with dictators and draconian rule or some type of large central authority and morphed to adopt some constitutional document post Napolean and incorporated voting at some point that merley serves as window dressing by substituting one form of central authority for another.

The U.S. instead started with less, far less of a central authority that became what is known today in attribution to the outcome of the civil war and Lincoln himself. And has ever since grown into the behemoth that we can now observe, far exceeding its original authority and even surpassing that of its contemporaries. No more is such uniqueness as it once existed.

We instead have killed off “Americanism”.

Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me:
I lift my lamp beside the golden door.

A lamp, just a lamp was offered and a chance. A chance that existed like no where else on earth. It was never a guarantee but at least a chance was offered for you to differentiate yourself from being ‘average’ against fewer predilections and bigotry that seemed to belong viscerally in other nations but not here.

For some reason by guaranteeing health care for all no matter how you lead your life of debauchery and ill-repute, by guaranteeing an education no matter how stupid you are, Obama declares anyone anywhere has a chance. But this ‘chance’ existed before Obama was president. The burden was simply your own not everyone else’s. Obama didn’t discover it or create it.

The government was created simply to preserve that a ‘chance’ continued for all. Defining success and achieving it was left up to its inhabitants and not the central state.