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Boehner Clings To The New Deal

Posted on | June 29, 2010 | 6 Comments

by Smitty (via Hot Air)

My headline is slightly unfair. I should credit Boehner for courageously opening the discussion on managing the sacred cow, rather than having it meander through our future, spreading cowflop in all directions.

However, let’s talk butchery. As the bovine flop of FDR’s New Deal, combined with LBJ’s (not so) Great Society, and BHO’s chainsaw-prostate-check of a healthcare plan continue to threaten the economic vitality of a nation near you, maybe it’s time to greet Leftie radicalism, and its herd of sacred brahman bureaucracies, with a trip to the slaughterhouse.

It’s the Information Age. FDR, LBJ, and BHO belong to a legacy bureaucratic tradition that involves lots of people pushing paper. I’d like to see the next President elected on a platform to unload Federal tasking on the states according to a multi-year timetable. Here, Virginia: here are your residents, their records, the services they’re used to receiving (10th Amendment be damned) from DC. If the voters deem it important, fund it. Otherwise, grind that sacred cow down for hamburger.

That’s vision. That’s what we need. Oh, here comes a politician to explain:

Category: Progressivism

Comments

6 Responses to “Boehner Clings To The New Deal”

  1. Estragon
    June 30th, 2010 @ 5:38 am

    Nothing would please me more – or potentially be better for the long-term economic health of the country – than to repeal and unload most of the FDR/LBJ/BHO nanny-state programs.

    The Libertarian Party has been running on exactly that idea (well, those nuts claim it’s all “unconstitutional,” which is just stupid since the Constitution itself prescribes how “disputes arising from this Constitution” are to be resolved, but the LP doesn’t recognize that authority) for the last 8 or 9 Presidential elections, and they peaked at 1% support in 1980, never actually cracking 0.5% since.

    We didn’t build a welfare state of mooches with their hands out overnight: it took fully half a century or more. Neither can it be reversed overnight. FDR could never have passed Social Security if the people in the 1930s knew what the fiscal situation would be in the future. LBJ could never convinced Congress to enact Medicare if there had been a clue of the cost explosion it would cause.

    Advocating eliminating those and other programs immediately (or over a short time frame) is like that in reverse. The voters have no appetite for it.

  2. Estragon
    June 30th, 2010 @ 1:38 am

    Nothing would please me more – or potentially be better for the long-term economic health of the country – than to repeal and unload most of the FDR/LBJ/BHO nanny-state programs.

    The Libertarian Party has been running on exactly that idea (well, those nuts claim it’s all “unconstitutional,” which is just stupid since the Constitution itself prescribes how “disputes arising from this Constitution” are to be resolved, but the LP doesn’t recognize that authority) for the last 8 or 9 Presidential elections, and they peaked at 1% support in 1980, never actually cracking 0.5% since.

    We didn’t build a welfare state of mooches with their hands out overnight: it took fully half a century or more. Neither can it be reversed overnight. FDR could never have passed Social Security if the people in the 1930s knew what the fiscal situation would be in the future. LBJ could never convinced Congress to enact Medicare if there had been a clue of the cost explosion it would cause.

    Advocating eliminating those and other programs immediately (or over a short time frame) is like that in reverse. The voters have no appetite for it.

  3. Joe
    June 30th, 2010 @ 6:30 am

    I agree entitlements have to be taken on, but if you do it you cannot be a pussy about it.

    If you are going to grab the cobra by the head, you better not miss and you better hold on tight.

  4. Joe
    June 30th, 2010 @ 2:30 am

    I agree entitlements have to be taken on, but if you do it you cannot be a pussy about it.

    If you are going to grab the cobra by the head, you better not miss and you better hold on tight.

  5. Lance
    June 30th, 2010 @ 2:45 pm

    My father in law gave me a butcher set a couple Christmases ago. I’ve only used it on deer so far, but I’ll bring it out for a cow.

  6. Lance
    June 30th, 2010 @ 10:45 am

    My father in law gave me a butcher set a couple Christmases ago. I’ve only used it on deer so far, but I’ll bring it out for a cow.