Broken Things

We have things that are unsustainable and unworkable. An inordinate amount of time, money and effort goes to things that don’t work. Things that take too long and don’t solve the problems they were designed to solve, things that are designed intentionally to not solve the problems and things that are designed intentionally to cause problems.

There are reasons for broken things that stem from ignorance to malice.

Mistakes that stem from ignorance are made as we experiment by trial and error using the scientific method. Edison did thousands of experiments, but only patented things that worked.

But there are half-baked ideas that are codified in law and continue to be enforced, but unworkable. There is ample evidence that legislatures are prone to passing laws that do more harm than good and that legislatures are the biggest broken thing we have to fix.

Things that can’t be fixed by government are referred by legislators as “a challenge”. The rules legislators impose on themselves are designed to allow them to pour sugar in the gas tank to gum up the works.  The filibuster rule and the 60 vote requirement are designed to deny the majority to pass any bills.

The problem in Congress is the infiltration of Democrats into the Republican Party. These Liberal Republicans may live in a District or State with a 50-50 split population of voters. In addition, these politicians need to do the bidding of their campaign contributors. We call them “Establishment Republicans” or Republicans in Name Only (RINOs). They campaign like Republicans, but vote with Democrats

Life is easier for Democrats. They just want to “fundamentally transform” the US into a Socialist country and are skilled at hiding land mines inside the laws they pass. The “unintended consequences” that arise from these laws give them new issues to pass even more bad laws. This flow of bad law invariably leads to socialism. Their strategy for having government take over everything is to make it too expensive for consumers. Healthcare and Education are industries that excessive government subsidies made unaffordable.

Another problem is members of Congress, who escape their dilemma by becoming more loyal to Congress and government than they are to the voters or their Party Platform. Those who run for office believe in government and are blindsided to any efforts to reform government. They accept the corruption because these people have become their friends. Most of the people we really need to be in Congress won’t touch it with a stick.

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader