Poll: people displeased with boots on their necks

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Odd as it may seem, people are unhappy with government.  So found a recent Washington Post-ABC News poll.  It is almost unimaginable that people would be displeased at being ruled by an impossibly large Beast that exists parasitically off of their labor, puts them in cages for victimless “crimes,” lies to them every second, forces itself into regulating every aspect of their lives, assumes it knows much better than do the people, disobeys its own rules, and has, almost from its inception, held the chilling distinction of being the greatest murderer, most prolific kidnapper, biggest thief, and worst polluter.

As shocking is the belief that the bulk of money stolen collected by Washington is frittered away rather than used for some meaningful purpose.

On average, the public estimates that 53 cents of every tax dollar they send to Washington is “wasted.”

Comically, despite having an inverted Midas’ Touch in that everything the state comes in contact with turns into a putrid, steaming pile of wholly digested sustenance, government proposes to fix every problem, none more pressing than those created by government itself.  In order to repair that which is both in reality and imagination, broken, government forces the people to pay, regardless of the reality that less could easily be paid for better services or repairs on the open market.

So backward is the thinking of those that comprise government, that the disapproval itself will have to be addressed with a combination of increased revenues, and a surrender of additional liberties.

Note: In typical fashion, the referenced article, which started out making a serious and important point about the evolving attitude of Americans, once thought terminally complacent, shifted gears mentioning the manifestation of the angry and disenfranchised before equating the “tea party” movement with the quasi-statist, neo-neocon ramblings of alleged rogue Sarah Palin.  Ignoring the plain reality, the Post writers even suggested that Palin is the Tea Party crowd’s first choice for the GOP nomination in 2012.

Add comment February 11th, 2010

Time Team’s Subject of Choice? Mindless Crap

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In an apparently attempt to publish important news, the brilliant, thumb-on-the-nation’s-pulse minds at Time have not only constructed an article informing us that some “senior officials” in the new administration drink Coca-Cola products, ut managed to have this dedunged excrement published by allegedly professional news outlets.

Important stuff, that.

This might be forgivable were we in a slow news year with readers tire of hearing about the social and economic utopia, lack of dead Americans, jobs apleanty fed by diminutive taxations, etc.  But with a plan at the cliff’s edge that will finish off the dollar, a fresh new “surge” in the works for the abysmal failure that is the Afghan war, and statist policies offering endless kicks to the ribs of Liberty, Time is seriously reporting on governmental soft drink preferences. And it isn’t a two-sentence blurb, either.

Michael Scherer cranked out a detailed nine-paragrapher–The Obama Team’s Drink of Choice? Coke, Not Pepsi–that chronicled his investigative journalistic skills, telling of his exploits in the White House recycle bins, revealing the product of crunched numbers, and gifting faithful readers with in-depth analysis of carbonated beverage choices among those currently sporting the jackboots of power.

It is good to know that is such perilous times, the watch dogs at the world’s last (fairly) free press are doing their jobs.  Riveting stuff.

But lest Time be alone relegated to the ninth circle of journalistic hell, this writer would be blissfully ignorant that this steaming pile of irrelevance existed were it not for comanies like Yahoo, whose “news” division thought this tripe to be not only newsworthy, but the sixth most important thing happening in the world as of 2:13 am, February 28th.

Add comment February 28th, 2009