On National Review’s blog, the Corner, today there has been some discussion of how government is just too big, particularly the Federal government, and of how or whether a financial firm (such as Goldman Sachs) can be too big to fail. Mark Steyn refers to the thousand-pages bill that Rep. John Conyers feels he shouldn’t have to read before voting on it, as a very good reason why the government needs to be limited in its size and power. And Nicole Gelinas notes in the ‘Too Big to Fail Recovery’ that even Ronald Reagan used governmental powers to save a business from failing whereas it might just be a good idea to let market forces prevail and if a business fails, let it fail.
Those big bailouts last year and all this talk of whether a business needs a government bailout is just so frustrating now, especially with Goldman Sach’s high times profits. It was governmental interferences in markets that caused the Great Depression in the first place, and then FDR’s (Fascist, Delusional and Regressive) New Wheeling and Dealing
Bonnie ans Clyde (Wikipedia)
came in to save the country, even though all that did was prolong the Depression.
Ronald Reagan promised to cut whole cabinet level posts and departments, but he not only didn’t do that, he added several more departments! He also signed many pork-filled budgets into law, including the very first trillion-dollar budget.
Ronald Reagan
Do you remember that, when he was sitting there and waved that phonebook-sized thing in the air? If he was really serious with his agenda of cutting government back down to size, he would’ve, or should’ve vetoed that budget.
And now that the fascists and corrupt pols want to have government do a complete takeover of the health care system, with bills upon bills for that and other proposals, thousands and thousands of pages long that no one reads, who knows just how much longer this country will survive. Just as governmental interferences caused the Depression of the 1930s, that is also one of the main causes of our dysfunctional health care system. Perhaps we should just let the Federal government “fail,” just as we should let businesses fail in the market economy. And as far as I’m concerned, let financial firms and other businesses get as big as they can, without any government involvement, because they are the actual producers and genuine jobs-creators of our society. But the government needs to get smaller. It’s just too big.
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