Oh Noooo Mr. Bill! Its a Federal Agency!!!
While none of us really believed that the Federal Government could do anything worthwhile, we were still a little astonished by what has escaped that large compost heap in our nation’s Capital in the last few months.
Last week, the Drug Enforcement Agency raided a home in my neighborhood in San Diego, rounded up about a dozen teenagers and made several arrests. One college student was taken in, locked up in a steel closet and left there for five days. The boy dehydrated in spite of drinking his own urine, hallucinated enough to try and eat his eye glasses, and attempted to write his mother a farewell note on his forearm with the shards of glass that were once his lenses. And so another Governmental agency has had to apologize for it inadequacy, inefficiency and its absolutely ineptitude. The DEA will be sued by the young man for millions of dollars and the tax payers who entrust idiots like this to run our government deserve to pay the price. It is almost as though we should call Roget to tell him to add as synonyms all of the words listed above for “Government Agency”.
A month ago it was the General Services Agency debauching in Las Vegas at our expense. I am working and living paycheck to paycheck, and these Cretins spent close to a $1 million on a Las Vegas weekend. The agency does not employ the very bright because they had the stupidity to put all this on YouTube and expose it to the wide and scoffing multitude. This is either rank stupidity or the very summit of audacity.
Two weeks ago the Secret Service, which guards our President, was exposed, pardon the pun, by a prostitute in Colombia who one agent refused to pay, while they were they making security preparation for the arrival of Our Chief Executive. Once again excuses were given. It is a high stress job and these agents need to have some release or they would lose their minds. Everyone, expect a budget item, if and when the Senate gets down to it, detailing an expense for sexual release for the secret service.
Last week, “Inside Edition” exposed 82 Congressmen who lease automobiles. These cars run the gamut from high end Lexus sedans to monstrous Yukons made by GM. The highest lease amount was $1900 a month. The lowest was $800. The average was $1500 a month. Congressmen get paid $154,703.00 a year. For the fifth year in a row, lawmakers voted not to reject their automatic “cost of living” raise that will increase the annual salary of members by $3,400 to a total of $158,103 per year. Why does this huge amount of money not cover an auto lease of $22,800 a year? Why does a Congressman have to drive a high end Lexus? Or an Infinity? Why are they not all driving GM cars, given that President Obama credits himself for GM’s success? Most of these recalcitrant lawmakers are Democrats. Yet they won’t drive American cars. Could it be that they do not trust the UAW?
We constantly see TSA agents frisking people in wheelchairs, little babies in baby-carriers, and paraplegics on gurneys. I watched a little boy, no more than three years old being wrestled away from his Dad, to be frisked. The Dad kept shouting calming things to him from fifteen yards away, but one could see this little guy getting more and more upset as time went by. In the meantime ten Arabs dressed in that sheet they wear probably slipped by with enough weaponry to bring down the Empire State Building. Listen carefully: I am not apologizing for saying what I just said. Let us profile just as Israel does. If I were a frequent traveler, I would be willing submit to vetting. Call my neighbors, call my pastor, and call my fellow employees. Ask questions about my religion. If I frequent a church where the preachers frequently spout anti-American jargon, question me about my loyalaty. If I look like a twenty something Arab, I profess to be a Muslim, and I am wearing one of those funny garbs, ask me to swear allegiance to the United States of America and its people above all else make me take a lie detector test and then issue me a card which says I am trustworthy. Henceforward all I would have to do is produce my trusted citizen card to walk past security. I’ll willingly do it for America.
Now ask yourself: Do we want another agency handling our health care? Do we want another Federal Agency making decisions about whether or not we need Chemotherapy? Isn’t it bad enough that they are attempting to educate our children, police the environment and handle our money and doing a shoddy job of it?
My hero Ronald Reagan used to say that the scariest words ever heard were: “We’re the Government and we’re here to help.” Good Grief, is that ever true now, more than ever?
