Thursday, June 25, 2009

The President Is An Idiot

I had a really long diatribe about how Obama doesn’t understand anything about:

1. what it takes to run a business
2. the economy, either in general or specific circumstances
3. climatology
4. pretty much everything else

but the sheer pithiness of the Title above says it all.

Look, Bammy, here’s a quick primer: when Government meddles with things, such as the economy, it will screw it up. Every time, without fail. That isn’t a rule of thumb, because those can be wrong every now and then. This is a fact of nature as inescapable as gravity and as predictable as the tides.

I can think of nothing - NOTHING - that Government can do to an economy that does not act either as a brake (taxes, tariffs, penalties, regulations, oversight, bureaucratic inertia, etc.) or positive feedback (which will cause ANY system to oscillate wildly and explosively out of control). I do not speak only of our type of Government, but of all types of government. It is true no matter the age, size or type, and is true regardless of the scope of the economy with which it is seeking to meddle.

I pointed out a story a while back (I’m not going to bother looking through the archives for it) about how the Government couldn’t run a brothel at a profit. They couldn’t sell ORGASMS and show a profit, folks. What makes you think they can sell health care and make a profit? A largish fraction of our economy (I’ve seen estimates ranging from one-fifth to one-twelfth), and with their only experience being the bankruptcy that is Medicare and the medical heaven-on-earth that is the VA medical system? Does this inspire confidence?

Moving on…

We also note with extreme sorrow the passing of Farrah Fawcett earlier this morning. She died after a long struggle with cancer, and I pray for peace for her family and her friends, because Farrah finally has her own. 

I will not grieve, because she is feeling better now than she has for a very long time, and I will remember her in her prime.