Still alive and other random thoughts

Man ... I can't believe it's been this long since I last blogged. I'm not going to try and make excuses; I've had plenty of opportunity over the last 4 months to post, I just haven't felt particularly bloggy. Not that I've really been doing anything particularly productive in that time .... just letting myself slide back into my old lazy habits.

Likewise I'm not going to say that I'm going to get back to blogging regularly, though I do plan to try.

Well ... what can I say. President Obama is doing about as well as I expected. He is poised to grow the government more in 1 year than it has grown under Carter, Regan, Bush Sr., Clinton, and Bush Jr. combined. He is setting up to push us forward into 'universal health care' and is slowly seizing the financial sector of this country. He is doing in 2009/2010 what, less than 30 years ago we would have run people out of the country for even suggesting.

Seriously, what previous administration would have had the gall to ask Congress for the power to 'seize control of troubled financial institutions whose failure could harm the economic situation' without oversight or approval by any other branch?

Here again we see the government grossly overstepping its bounds and trying to protect us from any and all forms of failure. Look sometimes we NEED to fall on our backsides and pick ourselves back up, it's how we learn and improve. This whole 'we need to bail out industry 'x' so they don't go bankrupt and harm the economy. The problem is, of course, that the bailout itself harms the economy ... and at some point those companies are, more than likely, going to fail anyway. Because eventually the government is going to go broke and it won't be able to bail them out and they will fail; and it will probably be a lot worse for everyone than if we just let them fail now and let a newer, stronger, company fill their shoes.

But that would be the Free Market solution to the problem ... and it seems that more and more people don't like that whole 'free' word and would like it replaced with 'government controlled'. Move to a 'government controlled' market and you don't have to worry about anything because the 'government' will have everything under 'control' and you can go to work happy every day in your government job with your government provided meals, and health care, and housing.

You won't have to worry about your house payment, the government will provide you the living space they believe that you need. No need to worry about your raise this year, the government will make sure you have what you need. Won't life be grand when all we have to do is let the government tell us what we want to be happy?

Wake UP people. This pipe dream has NEVER worked because it runs against the grain of human nature.

The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other peoples money. - Margret Thatcher.

A government big enough to give you what you want, is also big enough to take everything you have. - Thomas Jefferson.