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    Following is a piece from Investors Business Daily. Absolutely nails it, as far as I'm concerned. The more people understand just how ordinary these schmucks are, the more likely it is that they'll be thrown out of office.

    No matter who he is, the president of the United States has far too many powers over our lives and livelihoods. So do members of Congress.
    Even if the holders of these public offices were capable of correctly performing such a vast multiplicity of complex tasks, which they aren't, and even if their intentions were always honorable, which they often aren't, it is absurd that a handful of exceedingly ordinary, highly fallible people should be telling 300 million Americans what to do, say and think — and even more ridiculous that we let them.
    Are they smarter than we are? Are they morally superior? Are they better able to run our affairs than we are? Are their intentions toward us better than our own? Do they make us better or better off? Of course not. Just the opposite. Their record of failure is manifest.
    Why should we pay them exorbitant salaries to ruin the economy and abridge our liberties? The current incumbents should be fired. Their jobs should be downgraded in power and scope. The staff of nearly 3 million civilian bureaucrats should be redeployed.
    Those of us who add value to the national balance sheet should not be ruled over by those who don't. We should not have to stand in line and ask permission to enjoy the inalienable rights given us by our Creator.
    Civil governance in America is not supposed to be intrusive, much less oppressive. Left alone, all we really need is for government to perform a few simple jobs under our close supervision and on a strict budget. Yet we are painfully bound from head to foot in reams of expensive federal red tape that our captors in Washington pull ever tighter.
    With tens of millions of federal interventions occurring every minute, the machinery of government is so vast and complex that it can no longer be operated safely — especially not by politicians inured to the daily process of destroying lives, jobs and wealth.
    The politicians we put in charge of our lives and livelihoods are by no means the best and brightest people among us. Typically they are meddlesome by nature and given to high-risk experimentations, using us like guinea pigs. Most are inveterate spendthrifts.
    America's presidents and members of Congress are selected by election — but elections are not divine rites that make the unqualified qualified or convert ordinary individuals into paragons of virtue and superior intellect.
    No matter how many votes a president gets, he is still the same man, no better after the inauguration than before.
    President Obama is a reasonably capable young man with a good education who is especially skilled in the art of motivational public speaking. But he is not the man of transcendent wisdom and omniscience that he pretended to be during the election — and that people hoped for.
    There are scads of people who could do his job better. Their intentions would also be more in line with the values and traditions that built and still sustain America . But, as he and his votaries are quick to point out, he got the most votes and has the football.
    The theatrical nature of modern elections tends to produce inferior presidents and members of Congress who are better at creating an impression than doing a job. The few superior specimens who slip through are pressured by the weight of low group standards to conform — and most ultimately do.
    Even if we always elected the most talented people among us, they could not understand or effectively manage the gigantic federal empire, with its millions of contrary influences for good and ill that manipulate our lives and livelihoods. The job is impossible. It's too large. It is also totally unnecessary that it be so large.
    The federal government was built by politicians — and it is by politics that it can be reduced in size and power to a level that can be effectively and safely managed by ordinary human beings with good sense.
    Prove it to yourself. Go to the polls in 2010 and vote out every incumbent politician. Tell them why. And if the government is not 30% smaller by 2012 and headed downward to 50%, vote out everyone again.
    You'll see how quickly government will shrink — and how much better off we all are when Washington minds its manners and keeps its hands to itself.

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    Very good read there.

    Too bad its 180 degrees off from all the ideological soulmates of EB and his statist progressive thugs that want to control everything.
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    Quote Originally Posted by LBM View Post
    Very good read there.

    Too bad its 180 degrees off from all the ideological soulmates of EB and his statist progressive thugs that want to control everything.
    Lets see how he spins this one.

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    Agree, well said.
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    Quote Originally Posted by LBM View Post
    Very good read there.

    Too bad its 180 degrees off from all the ideological soulmates of EB and his statist progressive thugs that want to control everything.
    I have never known EB to have any "statist progressive thugs". This is a complete shock to me! Everyone should be entitled to their own opinion though.
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    [QUOTE=pescatore;987161]Following is a piece from Investors Business Daily.
    Why should we pay them exorbitant salaries to ruin the economy and abridge our liberties? The current incumbents should be fired. Their jobs should be downgraded in power and scope. The staff of nearly 3 million civilian bureaucrats should be redeployed.


    Maybe they are following your lead! Look at how many CEO's have run the big corporations in the RED and still stayed in their position with HUGE salaries and even received HUGE bonus's besides. You don't think that might be sending a message to the politicians!

    pescatore; if you want to cut the size of Gov down than go to YOUR State Senators and Congressmen and tell them they are no longer needed. That would be a start anyway. We will all follow your lead. Just like the Tea Party, everyone thought was a great idea, but no one wanted to carry the torch to get it done. They always want someone else to take the lead. How many that wanted or thought it was a good idea, volunteer to take charge of it. Where was Limburger or O'wrongly or the Beak. Why didn't they step up and take control of it and get it organized. Aren't they your brains anymore, for the non-thinkers. They certainly aren't an Al Franken, that's for sure. He put his money where his mouth was, and is now a politician from Mn. EB
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    Are you serious? Al Franken? The guys a joke! You know these people that wanted change are getting EXACTLY what they asked for. Bush didnt do everything right but you forget WE were attacked and instead of doing what libs wanted he fought back! I dont know that being in Iraq was a good idea or not, but some of OUR boys that have fought over there and think it is and thats good enough for me! This administration is trying to rewrite the constitution! Where does it say our government is supposed to provide,or force, healthcare for us. It doesnt! Al Franken come on. The guys another puppet that got elected through a liberal loophole! The problem is we have a bunch of GOVERNMENT DEPENDENT americans that are to lazy to get theyre crap together! They are exactly what these libs want backing them. Stimulus plan? Tell you what next time thye want to bail someone out why dont they start with the actual taxpayers! Give us the money and watch us pay things off and buy things! Obamas a joke. Hes more worried about crammin this health care down our throats than sending support to our troops that are dying for us and our freedom!!!! How can you be over something youve never served in!

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    Al Franken has an identity problem. He believes every one is his daddy. He constantly looking for his daddy. Call most men mother? He confused feller.

    Yep. Fine specimen of humanity. Duly elected by "The Corns".
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