Take Down

Why do some liberals think that increasing the federal government's power is a cure to most problems within the US? 

People seem to believe that the "godlike" government will is more capable of doing professionals' jobs than the actual professionals, which seems 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 our helplessness all too eagerly, creating departments with fancy names and  ratcheting up  tax rates to pay for this new bureaucratic waste.

Increasing bureaucracy is the government's "cure all." Today, the government is hard at work increasing its power in areas such as health reform, government bailouts and taxes.

Government run organizations have such a great track record' it's no wonder that the Democratic Party wants to expand the already obese bureaucracy! Wait a second…

Let's look at the Department of Energy, for example.  A typical government bureaucratic pigeonhole established during the Carter Administration, the Department of Energy was established to ostensibly decrease our dependence on foreign oil. It's been pretty darn efficient and effective, hasn't it?

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? Good ole' bureaucracy – just made everything entirely 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, it feels free to do it again, and again, and again…

A great example would be the government bailouts issued this year and last 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 take over the car companies completely?

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

Like the Post office, compared to UPS. Or the DMV compared to a privately-owned company like Masterdrive.

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!