GOVERNMENT ISN'T JUST CORRUPT,
IT'S INSANE!

OR!
Are they as smart as a Fox?

By Ron Ewart
Copyright May 6, 2012 - All Rights Reserved
From a Parallax Prophecies Column of the same date.

Senate Bill 1813
AN ACT
"To re-authorize Federal-aid highway and highway safety
construction programs, and for other purposes." or
"Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act"

NOTE: The actual Senate Bill 1813 is available in PDF format by clicking on the "Cuckoo" image above. We encourage you to take the time to read some or all of it.

Some of the passages and clauses in the Bill are un-intelligible and they appear to be written by one or more inmates from the movie, "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest." But what becomes very apparent after reading each page is that this is way more than just a "Highway Safety Construction Program" Bill, or "Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century" Act. The name is just camouflage. If you will take the time to read the Bill you will see that it includes changes to the Internal Revenue Service code that have absolutely nothing to do with Highway Safety. They just threw it into the Bill because they can get away with it. After all, no one reads these bills anyway. Right? You'll never know it until you try to leave the country and the State Department revokes your passport because of unpaid taxes. You might even have your guns confiscated if you owe the government any money.

In fact, this whole Highway Safety bill is a laundry list of left-wing causes. It includes social justice issues, radical environmental protection requirements, United Nation's Agenda 21 policies, Metropolitan Planning Organizations, or MPO's and "pushes" the Hell out of mass transit. It contains education grants to promote social and environmental curriculums, energy conservation considerations and it even mandates that every new passenger car in America be built with a "black box" event recording device, just like our commercial airline fleet. What will that cost? There are even health care mandates, pension requirements and minority business assistance. Then there are the carrot and stick incentives to the states and local jurisdictions which amount to legalized black mail. "Do it our way or you don't get the money." Oh! And let's not forget the money. We're talking bilions upon billions of dollars here and much of it is being spent on items that have absolutely nothing to do with Highway Safety or Construction. With $15 trillion in debt and climbing rapdily, where is the government getting the money? Borrowing it from China maybe!

Ladies and gentlemen, these politicians and the staff that "feeds" them, are either really insane, or as dumb as a fox. Legislation coming out of all legislatures, local, state and federal, are nothing more than a clandestine method to insert every little or large social or environmental agenda item they can dream up, along with clever revenue enhancement clauses (taxes) that they can load into the legislation. They purposely make the entire legislation extremely complicated and difficult to read, so that they can camouflage the buried items.

Obama Care and the Dodd-Frank Bank Regulation bills are loaded with "laws" that have absolutely nothing to do with what the name of the legislation implies. Every new bill that comes out of the U. S. Congress today, now contains hidden laws or nuances of laws that implement a socialist or environmental agenda, many new government agencies, or new taxes, hidden from view. These laws are so complex and so complicated that it will take a gaggle of high-paid lawyers to unravel or interpret them, lawyers who can argue for decades over the meaning of the word "it" and get filthy rich in the process.

This is what your "insane" politicians are doing to you every day, on both sides of the political aisle. You are being enslaved and bankrutped by a thousand microscopic cuts with every new law that is passed and you don't even know it. This doesn't even include all of the old laws that never see a Sunset. America has become an insane, out-of-control spider that is spinning an airtight web of laws from which none of us will ever be able to escape.

Republicans and Democrats will pass this damn thing and you won't be able to stop them, because you and they have no idea what's in the Bill and most of you and they don't care anyway. The Senate has already passed this Bill and it is being debated in the House right now. It will probably pass there too.

Meanwhile, illegal aliens get child tax credits at $1,000 per child and it doesn't even matter that the alleged "child" lives in the United States. This boondoggle is estimated to cost the taxpayers $4.2 billion dollars per years. But hey, it's only money! Right? Oh, and by the way, the IRS says about this little hickup, they are only following the law. Yeah, the IRS is probably following some law that was buried in some piece of legislation that had nothing to do with taxes or illegal aliens, much less with trying to reduce the size of government or reduce government spending.

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And speaking of government spending, U. S. Senator Tom Coburn (Oklahoma) just released a report on the waste of 100 government projects entitled a "Guide to the Most Wasteful and Low Priority Government Spending for 2011". Senator Coburn calls his report "Wastebook 2011". Just reading the Table of Contents is enough to make you lose your lunch. Click on the above image to read Senator Coburn's "Wastebook 2011" report.

Besides Congress writing law, after law, after law, filled with un-intelligible legalese, anti-American agendas and just generally unconstitutional on their face, these laws are also laced with pork, political payoffs and party pandering. And this doesn't even begin to consider the "rules" and "regulations" that are being promulgated by the federal bureaucracy, on a daily basis. The laws and rules never stop, local, state, or federal. The American government, at all levels, has become an insane, out-of-control spider that is spinning an airtight web of laws and rules from which none of us will ever be able to escape. This is slavery by any other name.

What a mess! Government is out of control and there isn't a soul on the planet that has a workable solution to the problem because of party politics. Can the steep cliff to destruction not be far down the road?

Perhaps the reason for all this "insanity" is that conservatives refuse to unite around some basic principles, much less the reality of the two-party system and their continued divisions will be the conservative's downfall and the liberals victory. This is hardly a recipe for reclaiming freedom and restoring our Constitutional Republic ..... is it? Conservatives either unite with one voice, or freedom as we know it, will die a strangling, writhing death. And you can take that to the bank!

Unfortunately, based on the responses to our last two "Parallax Prophecies" columns about conservatives coming together, it appears that unification is a long way off. We are still receiving responses from people who believe that Ron Paul is the answer to all of conservative's problems. That is myopic, if not mis-guided. First, Ron Paul can't win and second the policies he wants to implement would never receive congressional approval. Others have responded saying they will never vote for Mitt Romney. He's not conservative enough, or he's a Mormon, or ......! And even more say they will vote for a write-in candidate. Some are hoping for a Republican Convention upset in August where either Ron Paul somehow replaces Romney, or some charismatic candidate will come from out of no where and be anointed. Some say they are being guided by principle and conscience and either won't vote, or they will vote for a third-party candidate. Each of these positions, if done on a large enough scale, will only secure an Obama 2nd term.

While conservatives fight with each other and take their eyes off the ball, government goes on being corrupt, or insane ..... or as smart as a fox.