Bigger government = more corruption
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Another “We hold these truths to be self-evident” moment.
But who will take care of all the dregs who refuse to take care of themselves? Who will control those who cannot or will not take responsibility for themselves?
It’s like an overbearing parent that never ages!
ops what happened to last thread are you being hacked again MM?
Jedd,
It is simply amazing how fast someone can find a job/support themself when the money that is confiscated from others ends.
Rocket science and brain surgery are now probably less complicated than government rules and regulations.
Great video, simple solution. Hard to implement, but now…. it’s worth the effort. Amazing.
This simple concept is completely lost on many.
Well Duh!
Next, some people will discover the sky is blue and the grass is green.
http://smilesunlimited.net/photo6/water.bmp
First:
Make it against the Law for lawyers to hold public office.
Ooo…as if the govt size only increased in last week or so…Where were these RINO hypocrites (including Malkin) in last 6 years when govt size ballooned?
tre–not in LA!
LOL
Not in today’s entitlement society. There would literally be hundreds of thousands who would starve to death on the street because they have no concept of what work even is. America would be better for it too.
In other news, sun to rise in east tomorrow.
Sorry.
Look, everyone with two brain cells to rub together knows government is the problem. I think the question at this point is; Realistically, what can we do about?
This is the message I have been sending from my web columns and from my internet radio show.
Government must be reduced to its bare bones — e.g., national defense, etc.
Small is beautiful!
Wow! A Stephen Hawking moment of clarity!
aside: By the way, Stephen, please get well. We wish you a speedy recovery.
brad_sk
I would encourage you to re-read past articles by Michelle Malkin. She has never glossed over, nor shirked from criticism of the abuses of big/bloated government.
If Obama can only look forward, so can we.
*brad_sk: MM was reporting on it constantly over those years; Get your facts straight by checking the archives.
Your welcome in advance!
1. Never vote for an incumbent.
2. Term limits.
3. Term limits.
4. hold them accountable at the polls.
5. Whenever a politician promises something, hold on to your wallet and be very skeptical.
6. Did I mention term limits?
We need the smartest people in the room to save us from ourselves. The problem is that they think they’re the smartest people in the room because they went to Ivy League schools. Now if anyone else goes to Ivy League schools, they either only got through because of their parents or don’t understand because they’re protecting the rich.
Either way, you’re wrong for questioning them.
Right said. Some years back the State Government in Western Australia decided they were going to have a little audit of the welfare rolls. Almost overnight, 20,000 people dropped from the public payroll. This is in a small (population-wise, not in geography) state with 2 million people (probably 1.8 million at the time).
STARVE THE BEAST.
Join me in a tax revolt…
Go John Galt.
A bigger pile attracts a bigger herd of vultures.
So, you are okay with the larger corrupt gooberment?
News flash:
Liberals/idiots are okay with all of the gooberment coorpution as long as they can point to conservatives/Republicans/Bush and blame them.
The problem there chief, is that no politician will ever pass a term limits law. And when it happens at the state level, it’s all to often challenged in the courts.
Term limits, if we could ever obtain them, would be an excellent start. I would also go for an amendment that said all bills passed must be “clean” bills. Another than put an 8 year sunset clause on all bills except tax cuts.
But again, no politician is going to go for anything that would limit their power and force them into the daylight. They have already shown repeatedly they don’t give a d@mn what the people think.
Dan,
There is not “legal” and illegal corruption – sorry.
Working on it. Already cutting back on income. Considering a job move that would cut my yearly income by a little more than a third. It will make things very tight since my wife is a stay at home mom. But it would be worth it since the decreased pay comes with a significant increase in time with my wife and kids.
Brad – MM catergorizes the posts for a reason. example – http://michellemalkin.com/2007/07/16/culture-of-corruption-gop-edition/
Please know what you are talking about before calling hypocrisy.
This is what I refer to (part of what I refer to) in talking about structural reasons why all normal civics responses to the condition we’re in CANNOT work.
We have to think…work…risk…outside the box.
STARVE THE BEAST.
Twofoot;
there’s a better way to do that…
The primary reason the Soviet Union collapsed was the degree of corruption and waste in a Central government. DUHHH
True. But look at the cost of allowing that to continue for so long…
Immense human misery, and human capital wasted…gone.
We can’t let that happen here.
That wouldn’t be fair. Everybody should be able to run for office. I’ve toyed with the idea of term limits for a long time, but the only effect I can see would be that they would stuff their pockets even faster due to the shortage of stealing time. The only solution seems to be let them all serve 4 years, and then hang’em.
Mr. Obvious says, “The bigger the sceptic tank is, the more turds it can hold. Bigger sceptic tanks are more stinky than smaller sceptic tanks”.
I tend to be sceptical of that.
As a person who maintains a healthy skepticism…
I’m not just sure how I feel about that…
The other problem is rotating pols. When they are termed out of one office, where term limits exist, they seek out another.
A service limit has to go along with term limits. Otherwise we have insufferable people graduating from local to county to state to federal offce. One can still serve 20 or more years holding various offices.
Not a bad idea…and make ‘em pay for their own rope : )
We could put the whole slimy matter to bed by completely wiping out any kind of retirement for their service, nevermind no medical or other benefits living on for their widows. They’d bail like flies off a huge pile of dung. As long as they live on an alternate universe from you and I you’ll get no better. Making it illegal to double dip on govn’t retirements now would be a start.
his premise is exactly correct. everyone knows the congresses from the 70’s, both republican and democrat, have spent more on their pet projects than they should have. presidents don’t spend money, congress does. the president asks 535 vice president slugs to spend the money the way he sees it needs to be spent. those 535 can say great, as this congress is saying with obama, or it can say hell no, as many congresses of different parties have said. BUT THE FACTS STILL REMAIN, IN 1963 KENNEDY FOUND THE BUDGET WAS 5% OF GDP, AND SAID THAT WAS REDICULOUSLY HIGH AND CUT TAXES. WE NOW HAVE 25% OF GDP, AND GOING UP BY LEAPS AND BOUNDS. YOU NOR I NOR OUR COUNTRY CAN CONTINUE TO SPEND NEARLY TWICE WHAT IT TAKES IN IN REVENUE. SOMETHINGS GOTTA GIVE!
The federal government’s size and influence, and the amount of people dependent on that same government, has reached the point where it will never voluntarily get smaller. There are simply too many systems in place, corruption being one of them, that will prevent this from happening.
Never vote for the incumbent? So you’re going to vote for a Dem in all races where a Republican is currently in office? And the Dems are going to vote for??? You and I and everyone else knows that in each and every election, the massive majority are going to vote for… dun tah da DAA – The Lessor of Two Evils. That’s what people always do.
Okay, seriously…. How are we the people supposed to enact term limits?
And I’ve been hearing about holding the politicians accountable at the pols for YEARS… how’s that working for us?
Rags is partially right… it is definitely time to think outside the box!
The way our government is currently going, there is no easy-peasy answer. A government THIS SIZE will not dismantle itself. Anyone who thinks it will is kidding themselves.
The only way I can think of is to put up candidates that pledge to fight for term limits and sign papers pledging to step down after “x” terms. Of course, politicians break these promises all the time, but it is a start.
What do you see as a bar to my idea of a tax strike?
Please, I’m asking for good critical thinking, and not asking for a fight.
I want people to think with me.
Sorry for the cliche, but…
been there…
done that…
REPEATEDLY
Yeah, I know.
So…
do we continue to do what we KNOW has not worked…every time it’s been tried?
Or do we, like our excellent war-fighters, adjust our tactics to find effective means to fight?
There is a difference between symbiotic and parasitic. Maybe just maybe we are being kind when we consider our relationship with Politicians as symbiotic.
On April 21st, 2009 at 8:44 pm, Ragspierre said:
Adjust.
Hive Mind Movie by FilmLadd, coming soon.
This is the answer. If millions of people can effectively vote with their paychecks this is it.
YES!!!
And thank you.
I believe, though, that with a number in the thousands, or tens-of-thousands, we can begin.
Millions…if an example has been set, and unfounded fears dispelled by demonstration…would follow. Eagerly!!
That is my faith. That is my hope.
That is my commitment.
FilmLadd,
Are you one of the Allen Ladd family…?
Both my Mom and Dad were “movie people”.
Rags – I misread you on the other thread and didn’t read all of this one.
Yes, I agree to the TAX REVOLT. I’ve been advocating this for years! I really thought you said in the other thread that come April 15th we’d pay our taxes. That didn’t make any sense to me at all.
Viva la Tax Revolt! That’s what I was hoping this past April 15th Tea Parties would turn into.
We have planning and ground-work to lay down first.
But I love your spirit and mind.
How many of us are there out there, right now, waiting for this…?
STARVE THE BEAST!
Spectacular, and most informative video on lobbyists, and corrupt U.S. legislators yet.
Thanks, MM and http://www.freedomandprosperity.org/
That vid will be up at The LMC in no time!
Rags – I really wanted people to bring shredders to the Tea Parties and publically shred their tax returns and payments (unless they were getting a refund of course from paying too much in). Tearing them up would have worked too.
Wouldn’t that have been glorious? 250,000 people across the country shredding their tax returns instead of mailing them… sigh. It could have been just glorious.
The combined sound of dropping jaws and pants being messed would have been deafening in DC and NY…!!!
Now, THERE’S a visual…
I’m with ya’ll on a tax revolt.
I found this interesting blog…
American Glasnost
we won’t get term limits with most of our incumbents.
On April 21st, 2009 at 8:57 pm, Ragspierre said:
Nope, Ladd’s my first name.
See: http://www.HiveMindMovie.com
Videos every American should watch and learn from.
Ronald Reagan Articulates The Perils Of Big Government (aka The Democrat Party)
President Reagan – Government is the Problem
that’s the only way it can be done in a free society, then hold ‘them accountable.
Not so sure taking all the perks away will solve the problem either. Possibly pay them a lot more than they are making(payroll) now, everyone needs an incentive to work. All pork has to be cut out…all of it. They go back home and brag about how much good they are doing for the country not their district. or state.
Never mind I’m dreaming again.
Did I hear him say “legal corruption”?
Upon re-listening, it’s “legal & illegal corruption”. sigh
Legal corruption is that state in which you find the carcass by the road, a few days after the fatal event.
It’s actually a healthy, normal process in nature.
That illegal corruption…that stuff is really vile, unnatural, and without redeeming quality.
Why did I just get a visual image of Bwany Frank-lover….?
Eliminate police brutality: shut down the police. More wise conservative government.
I do believe that is actually the mantra of lefties, particularly the anarchist types. Now the liberal jackbooted thugs type liberals want more police, so they can persecute “radicalized” conservatives etc.
Freddie Mac official found dead in apparent suicide
This from someone who one day says the recent DHS report is the “plain truth” from the “Bushies,” then comes back a day or so later to say the report is not to be taken literally. Please check your continuity, LGM.
What happens when government is no longer constrained by its charter…???
http://townhall.com/columnists/JonahGoldberg/2009/04/22/the_epa_is_choking_democracy
Continuity…?!?!?
from a leftist…?!?!?
nunsuchthing
Love the idea of a tax revolt, but the question is does odumbo have enough cabinet positions for all of us? Seriously, whenever us peons get crossways of the IRS in any way, its jail time and confiscate your firstborn (and everything else you will own for the next umpteen years).
Impossible to lock up everyone if it goes into the tens and hundreds of thousands that do it. Of course they would lock a few up to set an example, but this would open their eyes a bit I think.
At least this would probably cause legislation to change the tax code.
I won’t tell anybody that can’t happen.
I can only tell you that people do it every year, for less pure motives. I represent some of them who have done it for years at a time. They are never charged with a crime. Often, under the right circumstances, they can discharge their IRS obligations…in part or completely…in bankruptcy. Other times, they settle for pennies on the dollar.
The IRS has us (American citizens) buffaloed. They are not what the mythology makes them.
And the system…top to bottom…could never handle a popular tax revolt.
And it would be VERY popular…
especially after it got going, supported by a relative few with gumption.
Rags,
Weelll, for those whose job depemds on security clearences, any issues from taxes=you need to look somewhere else for employment. I can’t not pay what I don’t make…. However, if/when layed off because of cuts, I will be the first to “withold” what wasn’t “arned”.
Kahuna,
OK, special case. You can be in one of the support groups, though…
The Washington Post of Jan. 24:
“Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack … learned that his new workplace contains a post office, fitness centers, cafeterias and 6,900 employees. But he remained uncertain about exactly how many employees he supervises nationwide. ‘I asked how many employees work at USDA, and nobody really knows,’ he said.”