Smells like Socialism

Why is increasing the federal government’s power thought to posses the ability to cure most problems within the US?

People seem to believe that the ‘godlike’ government will do a better job doing their jobs than they will, seems more like a shifting of responsibilities. We don’t want to get our hands dirty so we pass the work on to the federal government. The federal government accepts only too eagerly, creates a department with a fancy name and ups the taxes to pay for this new bureaucratic waist.

Increasing Bureaucracy is the Governments ‘cure all.’ Today, the government is hard at work increasing its power in arias such as health reform, government bailouts and taxes.

Government run organizations have such a great track record its no wander that the liberal party wants to enlarge the already obese bureaucracy! Wait a second…

Let’s look at the Department of Energy. A typical government bureaucratic pigeonhole, established during the Carter Administration. The Department of Energy was established to, “lessen our dependence on foreign oil.” Its been pretty darn efficient, huh?

It’s 2009 – 32 years later – and the budget for this “necessary” (cough, cough)
department is at $24.2 BILLION a year. They have 16,000 federal employees and
approximately 100,000 contract employees. And look at the job they have done!

Why? We hardly use any foreign oil at all right ? uh...NOT
Good ole bureaucracy - just made everything way, way worse

The more power relinquished to the federal government, the less power the average citizen has and the more we must trust our mommy the federal government. If President Obama really wants to make us “even” he will enlarge the reach of government, something he is already hard at work doing.

Unfortunately, once the government interferes one time they feel free to do it again, and again, and again…

A great example would be the government bailouts issued by Obama. Now that the economy is still suffering, Obama’s regime is forcing these businesses to take large pay cuts. What’s going to keep the federal government from deciding that they would do a better job and taking over the car companies completely?

We all know that once the Federal government takes something over its way better off than a free market business, right?

Like the Post office compared to UPS.
Or the DMV compared to an independent driving company.
Seeing how wonderful these function, let’s go ahead and give over the banking system, healthcare, and the auto industry to the all wise government.

Sounds like a plan!