| Tuesday, May
29, 2001
I see the courts have decided that a monument with the Ten
Commandments on it is a violation of the provision that Congress shall not
disestablish the established churches of the states: that is certainly
what the Framers thought the First Amendment did, forbid the Congress from
forcing an Established Religion on the States, and forbidding Congress
from disestablishing the Established Churches in seven of the thirteen
colonies. Over time they all disestablished their churches on their own,
but if there is any single item that should be left to the states it is
religion. Established atheism or established polytheism, which seem to be
what the Courts prefer, is a thorough violation of the founding principles
of a Federal Republic. Of course the Republic is pretty
well gone anyway. We continue overseas adventures and other Imperial
activities, while consolidating Imperial rule from Washington, and it's
pretty clear that's what the people want. The Tax Cut is the key: if we
cannot prevent the national government from absorbing -- and spending, for
it they have it they will spend it -- revenues comparable to the
extraordinary levels we raised taxes to in order to win World War II, then
we cannot prevent the consolidation of everything in Washington. As
to the argument that we can't have a tax cut (beyond the token measure
just enacted, and even that has the Imperialists screaming in fury)
because we need to pay off the national debt, poppycock: it wouldn't take
a heck of a lot of chopping at useless national programs to retire the
debt, and it doesn't matter anyway: if the money goes to Washington there
will always be high priority matters that require it to be spent. Depend
upon it, the tax eaters will always find ways to eat taxes. The only way
to kill a monster that size is to starve it, but since the monster doles
out pittances back to us, we find it better that everyone plunders
everyone than that no one plunders anyone. That is what is really
happening. Take education: would you like the federal
government to do more for education? How? By throwing more money into a
system that has got worse every year since we started what used to be
known as Federal Aid to Education (and there are few of us who remember
that any Federal Aid to Education used to be opposed on principle by a
majority on both sides of the aisle in Congress)... Throwing
money from Washington at education has done little to nothing to improve
education. But there is something Washington could
do, and I will tell you what it is. The President, if he
wants to be the great educator, should go to the District of Columbia
Committee of Congress and say "Give me the Washington School system
and the money that is to be spent on it plus a bit more. Give it to me in
fee simple, absolute control for my DC Education Czar. In return I will
support every damn pork bill for your home districts that you can manage
to get your party managers to agree to." Then turn the
DC education system into a shining example, something the nation can be
proud of and the states will want to emulate. Will that be
difficult? Yes, but far less difficult than doing it for the nation from
far away. If it requires turning out half the teachers and
3/4 of the administrators on half to full pay -- take your money and GO
AWAY -- then do it. Tell the education establishment in the District that
"You will lead, follow, or get out of the way. We will no longer
tolerate failure. We do not believe the problem is the kids, the problem
is you, and if we have to replace you with officers and non-coms from the
Washington garrison we will do that. If you do your job we will reward
you. If you cannot do the job, lead, follow, or get out of the way." That
is Constitutional. And that would work. And if we had good schools in the
District then the rest of the nation would see how it is done. That
is not what we will do, of course. What we will do is reward failure, give
even more to the establishment that has reduced us to a nation half
illiterate, and say we are helping. Never ascribe to malice
that which is adequately explained by incompetence, but in the case of the
schools, after this many years of clear evidence that what we are doing is
producing lots and lots of people fit to be hewers of wood and drawers of
water, can we be THAT incompetent? Enough. I have to work.
Enjoy the new education bill. It will send even more money to those who
caused the problems. Welcome to Imperial America. 1700:
More wonderful news. Seven justices of the Supreme Court now believe the
Imperium has the right to set rules for a professional golf tournament.
Understand, I have no opinion on whether the rule that allowed this chap
to ride in a cart while everyone else had to walk was a good or a bad
rule: what is clear is that even the smallest details of life do not
escape the National Government. Meanwhile, the Governor of
California is suing the Federal Government to get the Feds to impose price
controls on electricity. Having spent the state surplus (paid by everyone)
to keep the rates from going up for some, and the rolling Greyouts
continue, we will now go to court. California forced the local companies
to sell their generating capability to outsiders; now California complains
that these companies are beyond their reach. Insanity? Incompetence?
Idiocy? No, politics as usual. "Always remember that
democracy is a fleeting thing and never lasts long. There never was a
democracy that did not commit suicide." John Adams
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