Fleece-Lined Political Pockets
I know that you’ll all sleep better tonight knowing that your future is being watched over by a whole new crisis center. Yessiree, the White House has created a Y2K crisis center that will watch over the world and see if there are any crises caused by Y2K. Well, perhaps it is less of a crisis center and more of a watching-out- in-case-there’s-a-crisis-somewhere-in-the-world center.
Gotta stay on top of things. Wanna know right away if the Northwest Suburban Bank of Namibia has a Y2K problem, or the electricity goes off for five minutes in LaPaz. Surely if there is a problem with nuclear missiles going off, it would be good to know, even though there wouldn’t be a thing we could to about it.
This Y2K crisis watch center is just the latest example of the White House policy of irrelevant prevention. Or is it preventive irrelevance? In any event, the tab for this nonsense is 50-million of your tax dollars. Bye-bye.
Yes, there will be some screw-ups as a result of people not getting their computers millennium-ready, but it’s hard to believe that we need a crisis center to watch it happen. As someone said about something else, "It’s a wrong solution to a non-existent problem."
Indeed, Washington has lost all sense of fiscal integrity. For the past three decades, they have spent trillions of dollars from various federal trust funds and lied incessantly about balancing the budget. They have passed laws that have made the rich richer and the poor poorer, and widened the gap between rich and poor so that it is the worst in the developed world.
I saw a bumpersticker the other day that said "There’s no government like no government." Which reminds me of the most famous lie: I’m from the government and I’m here to help you.
Folks, what government is doing in our names is a disgrace...from the wasting $50-million on a Y2K crisis watch center to $30-million the military spends every hour of every day. But the problem is that we elect the dim bulbs who formulate the policies that consume our hard-earned dollars. And they further stick it to us by staffing their useless programs with idiots who more often than not helped them to get elected.
But hey, that big ole nasty Beltway crowd is not as awesome as it would like to pretend. Eighty percent are up for re-election every two years. The problem is that we continue to send the scoundrels back to represent us. If they do in fact represent us, with their corruption and incompetence, then we deserve them. If not, then we need new representation.
And that’s SetonnoteS...I’m Tony Seton.
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