The Government Giveth And The Government Taketh

A predictable Pavlovian precedent by the United States senate today in response to the housing meltdown was, as usual, incoherent, incompetent and more than likely unconstitutional. Think equal protection clause. As usual, what congress is doing, in the simplest terms, is creating another problem to solve the problem they created. And, let’s not kid ourselves; the housing crisis is entirely the responsibility of the elected idiots we have duly elected. First congress passed the fair housing act, requiring lenders to lower their standards and loan money to deadbeats, degenerates, déclassé and the defalcate then they disallowed the common and “fiducially responsible” practice of red lining, a system designed to keep loaned money out of blighted areas because of the enormous risks involved to investors, the real loaners of capital.

Combine the ineptitude of congress with the enabling of the Federal Reserve and you have a co-dependence of idiocy addiction and by God it’s time for a twelve step program for these elected and appointed arbiters of economic policy.

Today the Senate approved a 300 billion dollar bailout for those idiots working at MacDonald’s, moving into a $300,000.00 dollar house and for lenders like Countrywide who not only loaned money to illegal Hispanics but also loaned money to the homeless for new refrigerator boxes.

I know I’ve done this often, yet it bears repeating; the government doesn’t have a job, they create no revenue and they never have to fill out a W-2. Every damn dime they have they took from us, we the people, under the threat of jail.

I don’t know about you but I don’t want to bail anyone out, ever. Well, not ever. My wife has a friend, a single mother working her ass off to support two kids with a deadbeat dad somewhere out there in the ether. She’s bucking up, she works two jobs, she has never taken a dime from the government and on occasion we, “because we choose to” not because my government forces me to, we help her. We want to. But it’s our choice and not forced upon us by government fiat.

And, let’s consider this, a pertinent and prescient posit. Under our constitution our federal government is charged with maintaining a common defense, printing a national currency and settling commerce disputes between the several states. Read the tenth amendment.

So, what we have here is a failure to communicate. Our elected monolithic, moronic, manic, and malicious congress has taken upon them the very thing our founders fought against. We are now oppressed with 535 King George the thirds and it is my fear that it will take another Lexington and Concord to again proclaim this the land of the free and the home of the brave. Let me remind you, we are endowed by our creator, not by government. By the way, Wal-Mart is having a sale on pitchforks, I’m just saying.

Conservative Springfield 10Jul08