Other than the occasional multi-billion-dollar Mars landing, from a famously-bloated federal agency which has impeded manned space exploration with politically-motivated safety requirements, what have we got?
While Obozo pursues his retreaded class war against the rich (which was old when FDR did it in the 1930s), his preferred Big Government is spending our money with careless abandon. Not to mention he and his extravagant wife and their pricey vacations.
The worst part is how obvious the federal thievery has become and that it’s the “little guy” Democrats who are profiting the most, not the “rich” Republicans:
“As the average net worth of Congress has increased since 2004, and held about even from 2007 to 2010, the average American family net worth dropped 40 percent from 2007 to 2010 to an average of $77,300.
“In 2010, the average net worth for a U.S. senator was $13,224,333. The average net worth for a Democratic senator was $19,383,524, compared to $7,054,258 for a Republican senator. That’s a difference of $12.3 million.”
These guys are stealing, plain and simple. They’re allowed to do such things as “insider trading” for which they have passed laws that would send the rest of us to prison. We need to make them all one-termers stat.
It hardly matters whether there’s a Big Government-promoting Democrat in the White House or a Big Government-diminishing Republican. Just as FEMA will screw up (again) if a hurricane hits New Orleans (again). And how will Congress react? Why, they’ll pass more laws to make FEMA even bigger, of course, and to create more opportunities for insiders to spend (and steal) tax money.
Via Instapundit.
Here’s irony for you: All of this was old news more than two hundred years ago. It can actually be found in the Declaration of Independence: the Brits of the day were continuing to erect “a multitude of new offices” and sending “swarms of officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.” —from the late conservative economist Milton Friedman’s ever-popular book Free To Choose.
So popular that the TV series of the same name is still available on YouTube. The vid is long on emotion and short on ideas, though. Get the book.
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