Publius Maximus
2010-03-21 01:41:16 UTC
http://bit.ly/a60JF2
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One can make arguments for permitting porn and for banning porn, but
there isn’t a lot to be said for the bureaucratization of porn. Hard
to believe there will be dull, bespoke California bureaucrats looking
forward to early retirement on gold-plated pensions who’ll be getting
home, sinking into the La-Z-Boy and complaining to the missus about a
tough day at the office working on the permits for Debbie Does the
Fresno OSHA Office.
Meanwhile, Obamacare will result in the creation of at least 16,500
new jobs. Doctors? Nurses? Ha! Dream on, suckers. That’s 16,500 new
IRS agents, who’ll be needed to check whether you — yes, you, Mr. and
Mrs. Hopendope of 27 Hopeychangey Gardens — are in compliance with the
15 tax increases and dozens of new federal mandates the Deemocrats are
about to “deem” into existence. This will be the biggest expansion of
the IRS since World War II — and that’s change you can believe in.
This is what “health” “care” “reform” boils down to: fewer doctors,
longer wait times, but more bureaucrats. And, when you walk into the
Health Care Enforcement Division of the IRS, the staffing levels will
make Madelyne Hernandez’s group-sex scene look like an Equity-minimum
one-man play off-off-off Broadway.
Barack Obama, a man who not so long ago had time to jet across the
world to make dreary Olympics-losing speeches about how his kind of
town Chicago is, has now postponed his presidential visits to
Indonesia and Australia in order to make sure “health care” passes
this week — or, at any rate, is “deemed” to have passed, which is
apparently the way a quarter-millennium-old constitutional republic
does things.
The president, his press secretary informs us, regrets having to
postpone his trip for three months, but “passage of the
health-insurance reform is of paramount importance.” Whereas Australia
isn’t.
...
Investor’s Business Daily argues that the “health” debate is really a
proxy fight on the size and role of government. According to their
poll, 64 percent of people think the federal government has “too much
power.” Correct. But a big chunk of that 64 percent voted less than 18
months ago for a man and a party explicitly committed to more
government with more power, and they’re now living with the
consequences. Obama is government, and government is Obama. That’s all
he knows and all he’s ever known. You elected to the highest office in
the land a man who’s never run a business or created wealth or made a
payroll, and for his entire adult life has hung out with guys who’ve
demonized (deemonized?) such grubby activities. Many of which
associates he appointed to high office: Obama’s cabinet has less
experience of private business than any in the last century. What it
knows is government, and government’s default mode is to grow, and
grow.
...
- - -
Although news reports have it that the Democrats have, as of today,
dropped the Demon Pass strategy (we'll know soon enough if that's
true, but it hardly matters since either way they're strong-arming
this monstrosity down everyone's throats, including the
soon-to-be-axed-by-the-taxpayers gullets of their own caucus), this
(yet another) Steyn classic really puts the whole boondoggle in
perspective.
BTW, I discovered in this article something I agree with Barack Obama
about: namely, the importance of Australia. Imagine that! ;)
- Publius
--
"It ought never to be forgotten, that a firm union of this country,
under an efficient government, will probably be an increasing object
of jealousy to more than one nation of Europe; and that enterprises to
subvert it will sometimes originate in the intrigues of foreign
powers, and will seldom fail to be patronized and abetted by some of
them. Its preservation, therefore ought in no case that can be
avoided, to be committed to the guardianship of any but those whose
situation will uniformly beget an immediate interest in the faithful
and vigilant performance of the trust." [Federalist Papers #59]
- - -
One can make arguments for permitting porn and for banning porn, but
there isn’t a lot to be said for the bureaucratization of porn. Hard
to believe there will be dull, bespoke California bureaucrats looking
forward to early retirement on gold-plated pensions who’ll be getting
home, sinking into the La-Z-Boy and complaining to the missus about a
tough day at the office working on the permits for Debbie Does the
Fresno OSHA Office.
Meanwhile, Obamacare will result in the creation of at least 16,500
new jobs. Doctors? Nurses? Ha! Dream on, suckers. That’s 16,500 new
IRS agents, who’ll be needed to check whether you — yes, you, Mr. and
Mrs. Hopendope of 27 Hopeychangey Gardens — are in compliance with the
15 tax increases and dozens of new federal mandates the Deemocrats are
about to “deem” into existence. This will be the biggest expansion of
the IRS since World War II — and that’s change you can believe in.
This is what “health” “care” “reform” boils down to: fewer doctors,
longer wait times, but more bureaucrats. And, when you walk into the
Health Care Enforcement Division of the IRS, the staffing levels will
make Madelyne Hernandez’s group-sex scene look like an Equity-minimum
one-man play off-off-off Broadway.
Barack Obama, a man who not so long ago had time to jet across the
world to make dreary Olympics-losing speeches about how his kind of
town Chicago is, has now postponed his presidential visits to
Indonesia and Australia in order to make sure “health care” passes
this week — or, at any rate, is “deemed” to have passed, which is
apparently the way a quarter-millennium-old constitutional republic
does things.
The president, his press secretary informs us, regrets having to
postpone his trip for three months, but “passage of the
health-insurance reform is of paramount importance.” Whereas Australia
isn’t.
...
Investor’s Business Daily argues that the “health” debate is really a
proxy fight on the size and role of government. According to their
poll, 64 percent of people think the federal government has “too much
power.” Correct. But a big chunk of that 64 percent voted less than 18
months ago for a man and a party explicitly committed to more
government with more power, and they’re now living with the
consequences. Obama is government, and government is Obama. That’s all
he knows and all he’s ever known. You elected to the highest office in
the land a man who’s never run a business or created wealth or made a
payroll, and for his entire adult life has hung out with guys who’ve
demonized (deemonized?) such grubby activities. Many of which
associates he appointed to high office: Obama’s cabinet has less
experience of private business than any in the last century. What it
knows is government, and government’s default mode is to grow, and
grow.
...
- - -
Although news reports have it that the Democrats have, as of today,
dropped the Demon Pass strategy (we'll know soon enough if that's
true, but it hardly matters since either way they're strong-arming
this monstrosity down everyone's throats, including the
soon-to-be-axed-by-the-taxpayers gullets of their own caucus), this
(yet another) Steyn classic really puts the whole boondoggle in
perspective.
BTW, I discovered in this article something I agree with Barack Obama
about: namely, the importance of Australia. Imagine that! ;)
- Publius
--
"It ought never to be forgotten, that a firm union of this country,
under an efficient government, will probably be an increasing object
of jealousy to more than one nation of Europe; and that enterprises to
subvert it will sometimes originate in the intrigues of foreign
powers, and will seldom fail to be patronized and abetted by some of
them. Its preservation, therefore ought in no case that can be
avoided, to be committed to the guardianship of any but those whose
situation will uniformly beget an immediate interest in the faithful
and vigilant performance of the trust." [Federalist Papers #59]