I’ve never been huge Neal Boortz fan — sometimes I agree, sometimes not. But man does Boortz absolutely nail the way I’m feeling heading into 2008.
I think I’ve made a bit of a mistake over the past few months. Trying to be a bit to nice to the people I think are destroying this country. I’ve been trying to cut them some slack…be a little understanding. You know, the compassion thing. Well, something must have clicked during the last two weeks off. No more free passes. Identify the leeches. Call them out. They’re destroying the greatest system of governance this world has ever known, and they should not be allowed to go unchallenged.
If you squandered every opportunity for an education to end up an unemployable semi-literate loser, that’s your problem, not mine. If you’ve destroyed your health with cigarettes and fast food…then by what right do you demand that people who lived their lives more responsibly than you cover the cost of your medical care. You cry about your “right” to health care. You dare to claim a right to the services of another human being to correct problems you created for yourself? Further, if it is more important for you to spend your money on a cell phone, flat-screen televisions, the best new car, meals at expensive restaurants and fancy vacations than it is to spend your money on a health insurance policy…then you should be on your own. Don’t beg the government to steal from someone else so that you don’t have to change your lifestyle.
And that’s about half of it. I am so very, very tired of the criminal class we have embedded in all layers of government — from the petty to the gross. It is so manifestly obvious that you can assume that those you deny this fact also somehow benefit from the graft and corruption.
For example, it is patently obscene that we are going to vote tonite to hand about $40 million in public subsidy — $8 million in cash — to a minor league baseball team when perhaps the basic function of local government — locking up dangerous people — remains broken and dysfunctional. Positively pornographic.
“Once this is done we will have created a center city that will be unequaled in this country,” crows Parks Helms.
Assume that huge absurdity from the little man is 100 percent true. Why? Why create such a thing? To what possible end? How did we possibly get to a point where some fool can think this stuff is the primary purpose of government?
By letting it happen. By playing nice.
Update: Jerry Reese has followed through on his threat to sue the county and the Charlotte Knights should local officials move ahead with the baseball financing deal and associated land swap. Reese has also asked the Local Government Commission look into the merits of the proposed deal instead of rubber-stamping the lease-purchase elements of the project.
He is not playing nice.
