Mar 19 2009
Boy, are they good!
It dawned on me today as I was listening to and reading reports about our so-called representatives in Congress that they are good at something. There are none better than they at blaming everyone else for their screw-ups! No matter how clearly it can be shown that they are responsible for something happening due to legislation they passed, they will point the finger every which way but at themselves.
The law of unintended consequences is working overtime in the current Congress. That is just one thing that’s working overtime there.
I just finished reading a fiction, written about and set in Moscow, Russia before the Soviet Union collapsed. As I was reading it, I thought about how horrible the politburo acted to get rid of dissidents and people who had fallen out of favor (not to mention all their anti-citizen and pro-ruling class laws). What I finally realized is that we have our own politburo called Congress and they are every bit as bad, except they have not yet resorted to executing their detractors (yet).
Apparently it is now a crime against the state to be a capitalist. While I still do not think anyone is worth a million or more dollars a year, IT IS NOT A CRIME TO GET THAT KIND OF COMPENSATION. Congress, led by Barney Frank, is demanding to know the names of the people in AIG who had LEGAL contracts, and were authorized BY CONGRESSIONAL LAW, to receive hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars in bonuses.
The House of Representatives today passed a special law to confiscate most of those bonuses. Not only does the US Constitution not permit such laws, IT EXPRESSELY FORBIDS THEM! But then when did Congress let a little thing like the Constitution get in their way?
If you want to see where our country is headed under our new socialist government, read some books about the Soviet Union. Once the Communists took power, it took 70 long years to get rid of them.
Our government meddles too deep in our lives now. Do we really want them meddling and digging ever deeper and deeper into our lives?
Franks and his cohorts remind me of McCarthy. I hope the folks Congress is going after aren’t too afraid to take the challenge to the Supreme Court.
America was always the land of opportunity. There was no limit on your goals or what you could earn. (Other than morals and ethics, that is.) Why should an independent work hard to get ahead if Congress has a right to take it all away?