Quick Takes

In a world of peace, there is no freedom.—Rachel Evans Darling

A few quick takes-

A limited war cannot be won. We should have learned this in Southeast Asia. It is a lovely notion to fight just enough, but it is not possible. We are still in Afghanistan because shortly after the first successful campaign it was decided to pull back and just do a little here and a little there the result is that the enemy leaves here and there and sets up camp in places we are not fighting at. War must be decisive. Hit fast, hit hard and come home.

Bureaucracy is a dinosaur and should go the way of all the dinosaurs. It lumbers along eventually stomping any who wander unwittingly into its path. Case in point: technically federal bureaucracy is under the direction of the executive office, but a few years back, the EPA sued then President George W. Bush because he overruled them and the court (another problem) ruled in the EPA’s favor! That’s right; they sued their leader and won. G.W. got stomped. If the courts will not let the legally designated leader control his own bureaucracy, then it is time to make that bureaucracy extinct. Bureaucracy has become a black hole of tax and spend legislation, with apparently no accountability to anyone. Bureaucracy truly represents taxation without representation! Let’s get rid of 99% of it and put those people back to work in productive jobs and get their footprints off our backs.

The eyes of the Tea Baggers are fixed on the federal spenders, and rightfully so, but they need to broaden their view. It is no longer enough for," we the people" to vote out the big spenders in D.C., we need to also look closer to home. In the election of 2010, we need to vote out every piggy who stepped up to the trough. Every school board member who took federal funds, every college administrator who accepted federal grants, and every state representative who spent federal stimulus dollars should be kicked to the curb in 2010. All who spend our, yes our, money must be held accountable.