Posted by
A Fool for Rules on Wednesday, May 14, 2008 1:00:00 PM
We can rest easier now. Senator Obama is going to
change things. He's got a brand new approach. He'll hire armies of
arrogant bureaucrats who will have a million committee meetings, issue a
trillion new forms for us to fill out, and force up to stand in long lines.
With that approach, he'll give us better schools, hospitals, houses,
cars, and whatever else we need. Heck,
he’ll even improve the weather, from what I hear.
I haven’t done any big studies funded by a government grant or anything, but
isn’t this the same formula we’ve tried in most of the big cities like Detroit,
Los Angeles, and New Orleans where guys like Obama have been running the show
for years and basically invented urban decay? And Europe
has been on this track since well before the last world war. Over there, unemployment is about twice as
high as it is in the US. And let’s not forget most of the third world,
which is really big on big government. It worked out real well in the Soviet Union, which we all know didn't lose the Cold War
to Ronald Reagan but just sort of collapsed from its own economic dynamism.
What I can't figure out is why the economies of countries that reduce
government oversight, like India
and China,
are growing like crazy.
So the brilliant Senator Obama is going to change things, I
guess. He’s going to make our country
more like the old Soviet Union.
I know Obama and his followers are really, really smart. What I can't
figure out is why they cling to so many foolish ideas.