It’s been disheartening reading the news looking for things to post on this blog. Topics should be newsworthy, but there’s nothing newsworthy about the same old thing. For example, the UNCA Blue Banner reports Congressman Heath Shuler and others are trying to allocate $75 million from the federal deficit to purchase 50,000 more acres for the Blue Ridge Parkway. In a failing economy, it is a bad idea to take land out of production. Government shouldn’t be spending money it doesn’t have to take land off the tax rolls so it can spend more money it doesn’t have subsidizing local governments. As you might suspect, the rationale is “to allow continuous economic flow to the state”
Such actions are often referred to these days as “sustainable” and “fiscally responsible.” Now, if Cousin Jeff has a spending problem and he keeps coming to you asking for cash, do you call that a sustainable activity?
The bottom line is, if you want this blog to be interesting, people need to start stemming the tide. This isn’t a call to plant trees to stop the climate-change tidal wave that will engulf the Smoky Mountains; nor is it a call for kamikazes. The president, undaunted by the last incident, continued to maneuver for a greater share of the automobile industry and reopened the debate on socializing healthcare. It shouldn’t be hard for one of you geniuses reading this to find a way to convince at least one politician that what is happening in Greece is not good.
Pontification: The government is like Wiley Coyote. It ran off the foundation that supported it a long time ago, and it is now propped up only by its delusions of grandeur. When it looks down to see the absence of money, production, etc. in this country, it faw down go boom. Unfortunately, it will take a whole nation with it.
