Democrats AND Republicans (For The Most Part) Want The "Nanny
State" To Save Us
Its remarkable when the liberal infestation in our government
makes itself so clear that no one can deny it. Sure the
infestation is so pronounced on the Democratic side of the isle
that it is hard to ignore but we also have to stand up and take
note when the Republicans (often mislabeled "conservatives")
also show how liberal they really are too for the most part.
They might not be as far down the dark path to socialism and
unconstitutional government as the Democratic Party, but they
are not that far behind.
This past week former FEMA chief Michael D. Brown was in the hot
seat on Capital Hill taking it from all sides over Katrina. You
have so-called Senators like Norm Coleman (R) Minnesota saying
of Mr. Brown "You're not prepared to put a mirror in
front of your face and recognize your own
inadequacies"
and"Perhaps you may get a
more sympathetic hearing if you had a willingness to confess
your own sins in this."
Excuse me Mr. Coleman - I'd
call you "Senator" but I seriously wonder if you are worth of
that title with this political kowtowing. Mr. Brown and the
entire administration have claimed they could have done things
differently and perhaps better. But the one issue that was never
really spoken was was it their role in the first place? I'm
still waiting, to this day, despite asking many times, to have
someone, anyone point out to me where in Article I of the United
States Constitution the federal government is supposed to even
have an agency like FEMA!
I can however find CLEARLY in the Constitution a section that
says "The powers not delegated to the United States by the
Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved
to the States respectively, or to the people." It's Amendment X
in case you can't find it yourself.
So, the Federal Government is not supposed to be a source of
"disaster relief" because it isn't a "power" delegated to it.
That means that it is the state and local governments, along
with the people that are to handle this.
Mr. Brown gave it good to the so-called representatives. In
response to Mr. Coleman he stood up and said "That's
very easy for you to say sitting behind that dais and not being
there in the middle of that disaster watching that human
suffering and watching those people dying and trying to deal
with those structural dysfunctionalities, even within the
federal government."
It's true. And it is
symptomatic of most of the problems with Washington and the
federal government. They sit in Washington and tell people what
is and is not good for them and then they scold anyone that they
think hasn't done what they think is good for them.
Brown also came under fire for lack of buses to get the people
trapped in New Orleans at the Super Dome out. What? Why did they
need buses? The city had a whole parking lot full of them! The
pictures don't lie.
What is troubling in all this is the focus being put on the
federal government as the nanny state and not years by local and
state officials who ignored the problems they were well aware
of. Those problems were that if a big enough hurricane hit New
Orleans the city would be flooded and people would get hurt.
Those problems were that these same local officials knew well in
advance that there was a massive storm coming. Those problems
were that these officials sat on their hands and let busses sit
idle while their constituents were in danger. Those problems
were that everyone kept waiting for the federal government to do
something - any thing. Those problems are that to this day
people still do not recognize the proper role of the federal,
state and local governments and are still looking to the federal
government to "do something", create a bigger government
bureaucracy and give so-called Senators something to rant about.
All while Mayor Ray Nagin and Governor Blanco sit around with
flooded busses that they themselves failed to use and will
probably be re-elected when the time comes. We must recognize
the problem, which is that there are a great many people in this
great nation that don't want to accept their own roles in this
Republic. And until we do this nation will continue to slide
ever to the left politically as more and more people look to the
federal government to "save them" from their own failure to act
with a large and lumbering bureaucracy that cannot possibly do
so.