Weekly Posting of the Conservative Cow Doctor

 

To The Rescue

Each morning over coffee, I skim the Drudge Report and then, more often than not, I walk out to the corral and bang my head against a railroad tie. The repetitive pounding conditions me for the upcoming 2011 Montana legislative session. To progressives, and we are surrounded by them, every societal problem could be solved with just a little more government power, tax money and regulation. Do you need proof?

For clarity’s sake, let’s ignore that fact 18 million stimulus dollars were sent to dead people and 4.3 million went to consumers who were in prison. (If you didn’t receive a $250 check it is probably because you are either alive, or not incarcerated. Do you feel better?) Also, please disregard the $4.6 million wasted, I mean invested, on a horse bridge over Route 24 of the Blue Hills Reservation in Massachusetts. Since almost 50 horses actually use the bridge, spending $92,000 per horse could seem wasteful, but instead of fretting, be thankful for the good intentions of the progressive ruling class who generously gave us these stimulus plans. The results of this reckless spending is in and with our national unemployment rate solidly above 9.5 percent for a record breaking 14 consecutive months, plus the number of Americans receiving food stamps hit a record 41.8 million, the data is clear; their policies have failed and something must change. Blind to reality, the left is offering the wondrous solution of…even more government. It’s called resuscitation by regulation.

Just last week, a committee of the progressive San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted 3-0 to prohibit toys in Happy Meals unless accompanied by healthy fruits and vegetables. On the opposite coast, New York Governor Patterson (D) and New York City Mayor Bloomberg (R) joined together to request the USDA ban the use of food stamps to purchase sugary drinks. (The party designation demonstrates progressive ignorance can be a bipartisan disorder; voters better learn the core values of candidates for public office or they will be bankrupted by progressive good intentions.)

Bureaucrats are also advocates of mindless regulation and October 8th, US Transportation Sec. Ray LaHood urged a national ban on all driver phone use in all 50 states. The state run media love this idea so recently, when a city cell phone ban was implemented in Billings, Montana, our progressive state paper ran a news story explaining how the new ban actually stimulated the economy by forcing residents to purchase hands-free devices. (Billings Gazette, 10-3-10). This wasn’t satire my fellow patriots, they were serious.

I apologize if my columns seem redundant, but the progressive regulatory attack is incessant and ubiquitous. There is absolutely no difference between liberals of the Treasure State, Golden State or Empire State. Their thought progress, or lack of it, is the same. Ronald Reagan explained it best when he said “The trouble with our liberal (progressive) friends is not that they are ignorant; it is that so much of what they know to be true, just isn’t so.” Care to borrow my railroad tie?

 
 
 
 
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