OH MY GOD! The sky is falling. Kevin McCarthy has been ousted as speaker of the House! The Republic is in shambles. The Republicans are going to lose all of their seats. Why, this looks really bad!
GIVE ME A FRIGGIN BREAK!!
We all know why McCarthey was ousted. Certain members of Congress read my article last Saturday: The Government Is About To Shut Down, Pop the Champagne Corks. They all said “that Smith fellow has never been wrong about anything, I think we should listen to him.”
What in the world is wrong with principled disagreement? I want my representatives to get into heated debates over every nickel of spending. I want them to cane each other, pull hair and gouge, not to mention a few slurs and “yo mama” insults. The Beautiful Set and the establishment Republicans are afraid of getting their heavily starched Brooks Brothers shirts wrinkled. Why it would be such “bad optics!”
You know what are bad optics? Drunken sailors? No, drunken sailors spend their own money. Bad optics are squirrelly guys in suits and ties who sell out their country because it is easier than having courage. For the past 25 years, Congress has failed to do its job. Not once in 25 years has it passed its appropriation bills on time! Now in my world if you don’t do your job just once on any single day, you are subject to getting canned. These clowns have not done their job in 9,125 days.
I listened to Kevin McCarthy’s exit speech. To me, it was clear that the government is his blanky, his Teddy Bear; he wants to snuggle with it, kiss its cute little head and sleep with it. He stated several times that he had “served the people” by reaching a compromise with the Democrats and not shutting the government down. I happen to think the people are best served by having an absolute showdown over an out-of-control government freight train barreling down the tracks with no engineer and no brakes. “All Aboard! Next stop: Fiscal Ruin. After that the tiny but rapidly growing hamlet of Anarchy. Last stop on the Drunken Sailor RR line is Republic’s End.”
I heard some Republican talking heads stating, “well yes, the government is out of control, but now is not the time to have the disruption. We can’t afford to have a government shut down before the election.” And of course, this is what the backboneless blatherers always say, which is why there have been 200 continuing resolutions over the last 46 years.
Here’s the way it works. Congress doesn’t do its job. Instead of fighting over how every penny in an appropriations bill should be spent (and in my world having knife fights and bloody brawls), it doesn’t pass any bills. It then waits to a few days before Christmas and in the dead of night passes a 3,500 page omnibus spending bill loaded with obscene waste and special interest favors. The vacuous airheads for the Deep State and their minions in the media all prate, jabber and patter telling us how little Cindy Lou Hoo is going to have a terrible Christmas if the omnibus bill isn’t passed in 8 hours. All 435 members of Congress vote on a bill that not one, let me repeat, NOT ONE of them has read. In a sane world, the enraged citizenry would set up gallows on the Washington Mall and hang all of these pettifogging weasels.
Now what’s wrong with the federal government spending enormous amounts of money that it doesn’t have? Giving money to drunken sailors is not a good idea. Giving money to tyrants is an even worse idea. Enriching government apparatchiks allow them to create all sorts of ways to strip you of your liberties, such as taking away your gas stoves, making you buy oversized golf carts as opposed to cars and forcing you to be injected with experimental drugs in violation of the Nuremberg Treaty. The more money they have, the more trouble they cause.
Equally as damaging is the destruction to the economy born of government spending. Look around you. Everything you see is a result of people in the private sector being productive. Governments don’t have their own money, they take it from those that produce goods and services that others voluntarily purchase. The more money the government takes in, the less money left in the sector of the economy that produces everything. Here is what history proves. It is an absolute truth. Take notes. Governments keep growing until they implode. It gets pretty ugly when this happens. Chaos, destruction, death and of course totalitarianism fills the vacuum. If you don’t understand this, you are a dumb ass and a menace to society. Thus, the most important function of Congress is to restrain spending, and it has failed in a monumental fashion.
People get confused about what inflation is. Inflation is devaluation of the currency. The United States doesn’t “just print money” as many suggest. It sells bonds. In a vast, growing and vibrant economy selling bonds to finance the government is not in and of itself bad. What’s bad is government waste and how counterproductive it is to growth. Government spending does not stimulate the economy. Indeed, in many instances the economy would be better off if the government borrowed money and then created a huge bonfire and burned it all on Pennsylvania Avenue. That’s because much of government spending creates perverse incentives. The more money the government takes, the less there is for the private sector; over regulation and perverse incentives mushroom until the economy cannot keep up with all the borrowing. The government’s access to the private sectors’ hard-earned money is an aphrodisiac. It can’t stop spending. Sooner or later, it always happens, the government devalues the currency and then it is goodbye America and hello Venezuela.
One of the famous lines of jurisprudence is Oliver Wendell Holmes’ famous quote in Buck v. Bell (1927), “3 generations of imbeciles is enough.” Well, nearly 3 generations of massive overspending by the federal government is imbecilic and enough is enough.
Have you ever had your children refuse to do their family chores, perhaps they feel entitled and don’t respect you? Then you call up Verizon and tell them to suspend your child’s cell phone account. It gets turned back on when they do what they are supposed to do. All of a sudden, little Johnny and Suzie are busting their ass doing what they haven’t done in weeks and being polite to Mom and Dad.
Well Matt Gaetz took away Congress’ cell phone.
