I operate by some principals I call cowboy logic. To give you a smattering of the philosophy of cowboy logic in a thumbnail sketch, I usually list these three examples:
1) 2 + 2 is always 4
2) Water never runs uphill
3) If there's smoke, there's a fire somewhere.
Simple?
Yes, in a cut to the chase, common sense sort of way.
It's my belief that a big problem is almost always a series of small problems that have to be recognized, separated and dealt with one at a time. Most big problems, especially insofar as the government is concerned, start out fairly innocent sounding enough, a benevolent idea to help some underprivileged segment of the population or regulate some out-of-control industry for the greater good of all people.
So, a bill is introduced to remedy the problem, a simple piece of legislation, a small problem.
But, by the time it has passed through both houses of Congress, it picks up codicils, amendments, pet projects and all the other minutia the thumb-twiddlers can come up with - and it's snowballing downhill, a monstrous, complicated, uber-expensive, pork-laden catalog-sized stack of paper that could have been printed on two pages, a bunch of littler problems.
I understand personality cults and the fact that Barack Obama is the first American to ever break the color line, a tremendous feat and a source of great pride for, not just people of color, but for all Americans. Our society has come so far since the Jim Crow days I was born into, when such a thing would have been unthinkable and we should all be thankful that we have climbed that mountain and will never go back there again.
But, what I can't understand is how even the most tunnel-visioned Obama supporter cannot smell the smoke of America's fiscal demise drifting up from the national debt and Obama's adamant refusal to do anything meaningful about it.
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