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It’s the Bureaucrats, Stupid
It is hard to know whether Congressman Mike Kelly knew that his delicious diatribe on the House floor would be the perfect follow-up to Obama of Roanoke or not. But it was.
Thus, I submit that all you really need to know about the two general visions for America being debated in this election cycle can be summed up by contrasting the Pennsylvania congressman’s now semi-famous rant and Roanoke. Oh, it’s not all there is to know, but perhaps it really is all one needs to know — as it perfectly illustrates the progressive “you didn’t build that” government-centered mindset in action on Main Street, as that very mindset plays out every hour of every business day, destroying businesses, hopes, dreams, and lives.
Once the very foundational nature of this insidiousness is understood, everything else falls into place. Perhaps even in the minds of the precious moderates and independents. It’s the bureaucrats, stupid!
Vote Obama in 2012, and you have cast your ballot for more rules and more paperwork and more bureaucrats to answer to should you dare to try to carve out your little piece of the pie without government help. Vote against Obama, and you are at least saying “no” to the Roanoke vision.
Yes, bureaucrats, bureaucracies, red tape, endless and mindless regulations are the real cancer that is sapping the freedom from not only our economy, but also our very lives. As many are beginning to find out, and as Mr. Kelly so passionately described, red tape and bureaucrats cripple or destroy potential business deals on the surface every minute. But the more ominous impact is that below the surface, this dynamic depresses and numbs the human spirit of the would-be self-starting entrepreneur. And do not think for a minute that this is by accident.
True entrepreneurs naturally embrace the challenges of competition and marketing and of building a team, because those are inherent hurdles in a great game where the winners — and there are many winners — can achieve freedom and independence and self-actualization. And in this game, you win by having a good idea and by working hard and working smart and by innovation pursued with boldness. You win when your customers and your employees win, too. Win-win-win.
There is nothing in this great game that will ultimately defeat the entrepreneur. It is simple human nature. There is, however, one way to defeat the entrepreneur and thereby ruin an entrepreneurial economy.
Change the very nature of the game.
bitterclinger
July 29th, 2012
Meh. I’ll attribute half of it to the “We’re getting paid off by lobbyists to do X” and the other half to the relentless progressive mantra of Cloward and Piven. I believe most of them knew what they were doing all along.
Here’s a big bombshell, though:
http://bit.ly/MUmcEo
I’ve always liked Richard Miniter.
norman einstein
July 29th, 2012
Good article, and the Comments are worth reading, too.
e.g….
“In 1930 they started to build the Empire State Building. In less than 14 months it was complete. It may take twice as long just to complete the paperwork to open a restaurant in New York. That’s progress?”
Racist
July 29th, 2012
Once the very foundational nature of this insidiousness is understood, everything else falls into place. Perhaps even in the minds of the precious moderates and independents. It’s the bureaucrats, stupid!
Vote Obama in 2012, and you have cast your ballot for more rules and … more bureaucrats. Vote against Obama, and you are at least saying “no” to the Roanoke vision.
Yes, bureaucrats, bureaucracies, red tape, endless and mindless regulations are the real cancer that is sapping the freedom from not only our economy, but also our very lives. As many are beginning to find out, and as Mr. Kelly so passionately described, red tape and bureaucrats cripple or destroy potential business deals on the surface every minute. But the more ominous impact is that below the surface, this dynamic depresses and numbs the human spirit of the would-be self-starting entrepreneur. And do not think for a minute that this is by accident.
Actually even the Litardedest and the absolutely perpetual “Generational Welfare Dependants” already know that the govt makes and imposes ridiculous rules and regulations. In fact, they are typically some of the most vocal critics of regulations, they just don’t seem to associate the “Wear your seatbelt or we’ll make you pay us $150!”, or the “You can’t smoke here” type oppression with their beloved Obama. We just need to make the connection clear for them. Black people (generally speaking) distrust or even hate Police or other authority figures, as well as the Occutard and “Free Spirit” type Progtards, we just need to point out that Obama is the “Dumbass Rule-Maker” in Chief!!!
AvgDude
July 29th, 2012
I work at a company that contracts out to the Dept. of Health and Human Services. My company houses massive amounts of data for them as well as provides analytic data support. Everything we do is supposed to be done, according to plan, by the analysts who actually work for the government at salaries between $120,000 and $142,000 per year. But none of those people has the talent to do what is required; so they hire my company to pay people like me roughly 60% to 80% of what the government worker makes to do the work the government worker is supposed to do but can’t.
The don’t release the government worker for not being able to do their job. They just pay them sit around and have people like me do their job for them at an additional cost. I have to “support” analysts who, I can tell, can’t even do 5% of what their six figure job requires of them. Other’s can barely speak a word of coherent English, and these are US federal government workers.
Our country is quickly becoming a Europeanized money pit with high credit spending, low birth rates, and unsustainable pay and benefits for worthless government workers who can’t do their jobs. We’re becoming Greece on steroids.
Extirpates
July 29th, 2012
Your article cannot be considered until submitted in triplicate to every Federal Agency. Only typewritten copies are accepted. You do the hurry up, we will do the waiting.
even steven
July 29th, 2012
Hate is a strong word, but I pretty much hate unionized bureaucrats. They act like I work for them and owe them a huge portion of my livelyhood. They’re hardly “public servants”. Most I’ve encountered are wrapped up in the idiocy they’ve been hired to spread and actually believe their jobs are necessary, when in fact their “jobs” amount to little more than waste, destruction of the free market, and a general impedance to progress. Nealy all federal bureaucracies should be eliminated.
FreeMan - Chick-fil-A today
July 29th, 2012
It is all intentional and it is all about control.
UN Agenda 21 and LOST are about enslaving us
In the US the FDA, DHS, EPA, HUD, FED and more are slave owners pusing us into a corner.
When will we take a stand, speak up and fight back?
God please help us!
Billy Fuster
July 29th, 2012
For decades the republican party has been no more than token opposition to the tyranny we now face. They are like the Scottish lords in Braveheart bought off with their own promise of power and wealth. A true leader with BALLS would have told the citizens the TRUTH and to respond with the needed solution–TAX REVOLUTION.