OH WHAT A BEAUTIFUL MORNING!
There's a bright, golden haze on the Capitol Dome
There's a bright, golden haze on the Capitol Dome.
My spirits are as high as an elephant's eye
And it looks like their climbing clear up to the sky.
Oh, what a beautiful mornin'
Oh, what a beautiful day.
I've got a beautiful feelin'
federal workers will be fired today!
My apologies to Rogers and Hammerstein, but boy do I feel good today. Remember when you were a child and how it felt the last few days leading up to Christmas. The hope and excitement that that magical day would soon be upon you? Well, that’s how I feel today boys and girls! Joy to the World!
My dear mother would wash my brothers’ and my mouths out with soap for directing the word “hate” at another person. But folks, it’s perfectly ok to use the word “hate” at an institution. Let’s try it together: “I hate the federal government. I hate the federal government. I hate the federal government!”
Elizabeth Browning once wrote “How do I love thee, let me count the ways,” as an ode to her husband, the poet Robert Browning. Liz baby, I hope you don’t mind, I’ve doctored your poem up a bit to reflect my glee on the promise of today:
How do I hate thee? Let me count the ways.
I hate thee to the depth of hell with all my might,
For Chuck Schumer, I cannot stand the sight.
For the sniveling bureaucrats, I’d spray them w Mace,
I hate the Leviathan and it’s brutish face.
Most quiet need is liberty and its light,
Oh, how I love thee, as men strive for Right;
I loathe the self-serving crooks, as they run on Praise.
I detest the misplaced power and the tyrant’s noose,
I believe in the Founders with childhood’s faith.
I abhor its unsatiated power, it’s lust and abuse.
I despise its malicious appetite, and its odorous breath,
Frowns, tears, the burdens placed on my life!—and, if God choose,
I shall loath and detest thee until my death.
The old adage “No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session” speaks to me as I have had a lifetime of senseless government policy interfering in my business transactions and can categorically state that the administrative state often creates the exact opposite effects than their supposedly noble intentions. The Department of Education is but one of a thousand glaring examples of a bloated government filled with self-righteous apparatchiks who actually think they serve some august purpose. In reality they just get in the way of Americans exercising their God-given liberties to solve problems for themselves without the burdensome “aid” of government. de Tocqueville understood what the self-interest of Washington insiders ignore:
“Americans of all ages, of all conditions, and all dispositions constantly form associations. … Americans use associations to give popularity to their ideas, to learn the use of authority, to gain experience in self-government, and to unite their strength in order to accomplish some great purpose. In Europe, men wish to be led; in America, they wish to act; and it is this eagerness to act together that enables them to solve problems and pursue objectives that governments would be slow or unable to address.” Democracy in America, Volume II, Part II, Chapter 8 (1835–1840).
Give me a list of government functions, and for 80% of them, I could design a better system of solving the “perceived problem needing fixing” through the private sector, at no taxpayer expense.
There are a million issues where all but the political class would be far better off if the government would just leave us to our own devices. As said a million times in this article, the private sector produces all wealth, and when the private sector employs the capital it creates great advancement and higher living standards emerge for all. The federal government exists to take the wealth out of these hands and put it into inefficient, wasteful, self-serving and corrupt hands.
Think of the federal government as a giant dragon trampling through neighborhoods bringing destruction wherever it goes. The great thing about this shutdown is the President is going to use his executive powers to try and slay this dragon by massively firing federal workers. Usually they get furloughed and then paid when the shutdown is over. But why should they get paid for not working? The president will wound and weaken the dragon, but not slay it. The real way to slay this dragon is to cut off its food supply, i.e., tax money flowing into Washinton.
Nevertheless, this is a day for boisterous rejoicing!
