You Handed them the Hammer, And Now You Complain That They're Hitting You With It? - Granite Grok

You Handed them the Hammer, And Now You Complain That They’re Hitting You With It?

If you’re upset that a service or function that you depend on is not available because of the shutdown, then do the right thing: work to privatize it, or move it local and free yourself from the whims of temporary, remote politicians.

You trust her with delivering your needs?
Would you trust her with delivering your needs?

Why on earth would you subject the delivery of an essential need to political winds? Have you seen the way these people operate?

They’re the same people that oversee and repeatedly exacerbate Leviathan’s follies. Like the employment of 96% of nonessential personnel to run a Federal Department? Who does that? How does that make sense?

Or how about a more pedestrian example: the Post Office.  The Post Office has been going bankrupt, slowly swirling down and streaking the bureaucratic porcelain for decades. And get this: the Post Office is a MONOPOLY!! It’s a monopoly that can’t figure out how to make a profit or even break even. When have you seen that? Now of course an apologist would say, “well there’s email now”. That’s partially my point. They’ve been going broke long before email. Shoot, they even spent a butt-load on advertising about the delivery of mail to the point where they changed their entire marketing material–doing so on every Mail Car, Mail Truck, and Mail box (like it’s the shape of the Eagles head is the origin of their woes).  They’re a MONOPOLY! They don’t need to advertise. They are the only ones that are legally allowed to use a mailbox, and they are unable to figure it out! Sheesh.

By depending on government for a need, you’re only asking to be disappointed, antic, or stressed for fear it will disappear every two years or more frequently.

Think I’m crazy?

Have you thought about it this way. Regardless of which party or political philosophy you subscribe to or none at all, think about it as a purely practical matter. By depending on government you are placing a vital need in the hands of…wait for it… POLITICIANS!! Federal politicians at that.

Have you seen these people over the past few years/decades?

You trust this guy?
Would you trust this guy?

They’re not statesmen that can spin a noble yarn about the virtues of man, we’re talking about people who stand too wide in the urinal stalls looking for gay hookers, send pictures of their genitalia to strangers, have plastic surgery so bizarrely extreme that it makes her look like she’s perpetually witnessing the Hindenburg docking (h/t Dennis Miller for that one), heck even look at the weird tobacco peccadillo of the Democrat President that preceded the current narcissist that’s so enamored with himself to the point that he actually doesn’t know he’s completely out of his depth.  At the Federal level, the politicians are more weird, odder, more bizarre, delusional and quite frankly freakish to the point of being sociopaths.

Why on earth would you trust any of them with delivering an essential need of yours? Why put the cudgel in their hands to bludgeon you with? Actually, you are kind of responsible for that if you’re a Democrat, Liberal, Progressive, Big Government voter… you asked for it. And now you’re getting it… good and hard. (h/t HL Menken)

Now, I’m not saying there’s no need for government, there is. But I think it’s much better that many of these essential services are done at the state and local level. That way, if, say, State Rep. Anthony down the street starts texting his privates all over town, you can actually go talk to him and his wife and straighten him out. If that doesn’t work it’s much easier getting him out of office, as opposed to relying on the media to do it to some stranger in some remote state.  A State that doesn’t care about your state or your town, and has elected some screaming perve who will affect the needs you depend on (he obviously has a lot of other more pressing matters on  his mind).  Get my point?  Keep it local.  Keep them responsible. Keep things that matter out of the sociopathic bubble on the Potomac.

Now, as far as the shutdown…I’m not that upset about it… actually, kind of like it.  Somehow, I’m sleeping better:0)

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