Government never lives up to our expectations. Out here in the real world, when we pay someone to install a toilet in our house, we expect the toilet to work when he’s done. But, we don’t expect the same results from government. I’ve always said that the reason people who have been in the military for any length of time are conservative is because we’ve seen the government at it’s best and at it’s worst and it’s been our experience that there’s hardly any difference between the two. We’ve depended upon the government to bring us our food and our clothes when we need it most, and the government is unable to do the simplest things in a timely manner. <\/p>\n
This whole Ebola thing should come as no surprise to anyone. The government is unable to protect us from the disease even though there is an agency with “disease control” right there in it’s name. Every morning, when I turn on the news, I feel like I’m in one of those bad movies where the government’s only concern is preventing panic in the population, rather than fixing the problem with which they are confronted.<\/p>\n
Actually, instead of “disease control” the Center for Disease Control has been tasked with researching things that have nothing to do with it’s mission – things like gun violence policy and fat lesbians – to bow to their political masters, rather than science.<\/p>\n
I’m not surprised at this particular strategy, I’m just surprised that no one else isn’t surprised that government is incompetent. Government is real good at telling we, the people, what to do, but they’re not so good at telling themselves what to do. We have government officials telling us not to panic and lying to us about the situation so we don’t panic, not understanding that the more they lie, the more panic they create. Just like in those bad movies.<\/p>\n
We learn that there are are a few hospitals that are supposed to be equipped to handle Ebola patients, yet two nurses contract the disease in one of those facilities because they didn’t have basic equipment to protect them from Ebola. <\/p>\n
The lesson of the last few years is that government is inherently incompetent, but, as we’ll probably see in the upcoming elections, no one has learned that lesson. In fact, we’re even willing to allow the same government that was unable to protect two highly-trained nurses in Dallas from Ebola infection to commandeer our own health care. Even after the government’s own health care system, the Veterans’ Affairs Department, has been nationally exposed as being incompetent – despite the fact that two presidents and four Congresses have been recklessly throwing piles of cash at the VA.<\/p>\n
The reason that it’s been especially incompetent this year is because all of the crises that we’re facing are being viewed through a political lens, you know, with the mid-term elections looming next month. The political implications of certain decisions must be focus-grouped first and by the time a decision is made, it’s really too late for the decision to have a meaningful impact on the problem.<\/p>\n
The only lesson of Big Government is that the more that you depend on the government in your life, the more you are going to be disappointed with the results. But, I’m pretty sure that isn’t the lesson the country is going to take away from this experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"