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Thursday, February 7. 2013

Leviathan


Althouse asks Is government an "impetuous vortex" or a "hideous monster [with] devouring jaws"?


I go with monster, myself.


From Henninger's  Obama's Colossal Politics - His laws are so big there are parts no one has ever seen:



Years back, a popular notion among liberal thinkers was something called
"imperial overstretch." This was the idea that America's far-flung
foreign-policy commitments could bankrupt the country. Mr. Obama
believes this, and before Chuck Hagel started talking the other day, he
was supposed to explain it. In his State of the Union speech next
Tuesday, Mr. Obama will say again that Washington, after Iraq and
Afghanistan, needs to "invest" at home. But isn't the federalization of
pretty much everything in a diverse country like the U.S. just another
exercise in imperial overstretch?




Posted by The News Junkie in Politics at 13:24 | Comments (4) | Trackbacks (0)

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I say, Both.
#1 Sam L. on 2013-02-07 14:48 (Reply)
Let's see, impetuous vortex as in a black hole. Or a hideous monster with devouring jaws as in T rex. And you consider either a viable choice? Let's consider a third path, a dragon with a severed head.
#2 indyjonesouthere on 2013-02-07 18:37 (Reply)
No, no. See, there is an infinite pool of resources available for domestic entitlement programs, even if we have to borrow to fund them and even if they're destroying the economy and therefore the very source of the wealth that's supposed to fund them. But anything we do overseas in furtherance of national security is spending money we don't have. 'Cause imperial ambition is mean, but Nanny State ambition is very, very nice.
#3 Texan99 (Link) on 2013-02-07 21:24 (Reply)
Investing..... Their "investing" sucks and never ever seems to give us much of a return. Our government is just a macro version of Bernie Madoff.
#4 Hoss on 2013-02-07 22:21 (Reply)

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