From The Five:
Mr. Obama must have been scared by the Tax Day Tea Party rebels. At the end of their meeting yesterday, he asked his Cabinet officials to cut… (insert evil spy soundtrack)… $100 miiilllliion dollars from the budget.
$100 miiillliion dollars…
These radical cuts will come by “purchasing office supplies in bulk” and teleconferencing when applicable. And they account for roughly five one hundredths of a percent of last month’s — just March’s — $192 billion federal budget deficit!
Ooooh…
That’s like making a $5 payment on a $10,000 monthly credit card bill.
If your neighbor sent the bank a check for $100 on a $200,000 loan, he’d be a bum on the verge of personal collapse — the village idiot. In Washington, he’d be the leader of the free world.
The displaced community organizer has a very strange definition of the concepts of “patriotism” and what it means to “volunteer.”
Apparently, “volunteering” means having the government take your money and children and put them to work in the service of an unconstitutional arm of the government. “Volunteering” is using extortion to force public schools to put schoolchildren to work on government-approved projects, or suffer the loss of federal funding. “Volunteering” means becoming a paid government agent, to be sent to accomplish the will of the government.
And “patriotism” means spending billions of taxpayer dollars turning young and old adults into workerbots – taking them out of the private sector where they are actually able to contribute to the economy and society as a whole, and putting them to work in whatever lobbyist-friendly project the Kenyan Dictator or Congress can come up with. “Patriotism” now means ignoring supply and demand, means ignoring free-market economics, means wasting billions of dollars and lives on socialist projects. It means replacing freedom and private charity, which is exceptionally efficient at filling actual needs, with mandatory “volunteer” government-directed service, which serves only the political whims of the politicians in charge.
Rather than “connecting deeds to needs,” this program creates an awful lot of expense and work and then tries to find something to waste it on.
In Americorps, enrolees do not learn what it means to be an American. They do not learn anything about patriotism, the history of this nation, or principles of correct and just government.
Enrolees learn only to be government lackeys. Enrolees learn that it’s easier to be a public-sector sycophant than to hold a private-sector job. Enrolees learn how to serve the political cause of the day in exchange for money, rather than what a just cause acutally is, and how to stand up for it. They learn how to bully money out of taxpayers, in order to perpetuate a bureaucracy. They learn that it is more important to perpetuate a bureaucracy, than to examine whether that bureaucracy actually contribues anything of worth, and whether those contributions could be done more efficiently by true volunteers, voluntarily volunteering their time, money, and resources to a cause they actually love, but who are instead forced to work extra hours at a job in order to pay the increased taxes to fund the government make-work programs.
I understand that it is easier to be a government leech than to pull yourself up by your bootstraps and actually contribute to the nation. But the American Dream has always been that anyone, anywhere, can start with nothing, and make something. American’s have always been an extremely giving people, with private charity dwarfing the sums “donated” by government to emergencies domestic and foreign. Government is only able to out-give private charity in areas where there is no actual market or demand, such as funding foreign dictators and tyrants or international organizations that want to destroy our national sovereignty.
But I believe true Americans, true patriots, can take America back from the socialist engineers who want to fiddle with the lives of every citizen, and re-mold us into their idea of good government servants. The government should be our servant, not the other way around. Government exists only to protect our rights and freedoms, and those rights and freedoms are already defined in the document that created our government. They do not get to decide what we are allowed to do, we have decided and deliniated what they are allowed to do.
Let us remind Congress and the other President that they have sworn an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States, and that it has not yet been amended to allow Congress or the President to created, fund, or direct national service organizations.
I would like to take a few minutes on this beautiful Sunday to recognize those brave Colonial Minute Men who stood up to the British Army regulars at Lexington and Concord, in Massassachusets, preventing those government agents from confiscating colonial stores of arms and ammunition, and thus fighting the initiatory battle of the American Revolution.
