The Capital Cities Curmudgeon -- All Criticism, All the Time

We are dedicated to ridiculing big government as best we can. We honor an ancient truism: "There are people who can slap you on the back with one hand and pick your pocket with the other." We assume they are all politicians.

Thursday, August 4, 2011

It Definitely Isn't Working

     Socialism, well-executed, may work.  We don't know because we've never seen it.

     Socialism, poorly executed, is a disaster. We know because we're seeing it being played out in our daily lives.

     Nationally, Barack Obama is an avowed Socialist and as such, his policies and practices are a menace to the economy. His ideas, centering on super-power bureaucracy in Washington, stifle innovation and business expansion.  Forty million people are on food stamps. Hospital emergency rooms are clogged with poor people whom the doctors and nurses are forced to treat at gunpoint. Major car companies were recently nationalized to rescue the workers' union jobs. Overall employment is going down, not up.  Payments to people who don't work just keep getting sweeter and sweeter.  It's all bad.

     Everywhere locally, idealistic environmentalist air-heads, tutored by the EPA  run roughshod over industry in the name of saving insignificant plants and animals from non-existent "perils."  At one state level, the California Air Resources Board is a monumental example of crushing regulations.  ARB  Their attitude: "We battle pollution without regard for who gets wasted in the crossfire."

     The Curmudgeon declares that, for 2012, it's Anybody But Obama.  Best slogan:  "Obie Must Go"

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