Government

There's a You Tube video going around with a committee hearing that shows an incredibly stupid exchange between a Congressman and a federal inspector general. If you have any friends, you've no doubt seen it, since it is being sent all over the place. My comments:

This shouldn't surprise anyone, not at all. It doesn't matter, Dem or Rep--it's not their money! (Of course, Gov Jennie disagrees.) As Nobelist Milton Friedman once wrote, "It's easy to spend other people's money."

There are many problems here. One, how can anyone give away more than a trillion dollars and not know or not care who has received it? (Well, it's easy--see above.) Two, this kind of person is our government leadership. She's not an anomaly. Three, if anyone needs any evidence that government cannot be a solution to anything (or, at least, not to very much), here it is. And this kind of stupidity can be found every day, on every level of government, from Washington, DC and the state capital to the local school board and administrators. Four, these people are not even ashamed of their incompetence (if they even recognize it). Of course, they are going to "save" the United States from itself, a nation, that despite its flaws, grew into the freest, most prosperous country in history. Five, we, that is, voters and citizens, have allowed this to happen. Why do we keep electing the same stooges or types of stooges (Iacocca calls them "Bozos!")? Why do we so blindly accept the crap for candidates the Dems and Reps keep throwing at us? Why do we accept, without questioning or even any scrutiny, what our school officials tell us (it's not as if many of them know anything)? What is it that is more important than paying attention? That is, unless we are fine with what government is doing for us, although I prefer to say, to us. Unless we think these folks are perfectly fine in their positions--and I'm talking about Cabinet members, elected local officials, school administrators, the whole bunch.