Government regulation is the answer. For everything. And the more government, and the bigger the government, the better.
Every fool knows that.
And only fools.
State to mom: Stop baby-sitting neighbors’ kids
By JAMES PRICHARD, Associated Press Writer James Prichard, Associated Press Writer – Tue Sep 29, 9:41 pm ET
IRVING TOWNSHIP, Mich. – Each day before the school bus comes to pick up the neighborhood’s children, Lisa Snyder did a favor for three of her fellow moms, welcoming their children into her home for about an hour before they left for school.
Regulators who oversee child care, however, don’t see it as charity. Days after the start of the new school year, Snyder received a letter from the Michigan Department of Human Services warning her that if she continued, she’d be violating a law aimed at the operators of unlicensed day care centers.
“I was freaked out. I was blown away,” she said. “I got on the phone immediately, called my husband, then I called all the girls” — that is, the mothers whose kids she watches — “every one of them.”
Snyder’s predicament has led to a debate in Michigan about whether a law that says no one may care for unrelated children in their home for more than four weeks each calendar year unless they are licensed day-care providers needs to be changed. It also has irked parents who say they depend on such friendly offers to help them balance work and family.
Fortunately – due to an immediate avalanche of horrible press that left the bureaucrats feeling like cockroaches caught in the middle of a room when the light gets turned on – the Department of Human Services did a quick tap dance backward. They said they only threatened her because a neighbor had complained (I mean, the NERVE of that awful Snyder woman who takes those kids into her home to help other working parents keep their children safe!). And the Department of Human Services is really the bastion of common sense – and not at ALL the kind of agency that would go psycho on a terrific neighborhood saint.
That’s the thing about government regulations. Bernie Madoff gets away undetected for years while he steals $65 billion, and Lisa Snyder gets nailed for keeping kids safe in her home until school opens.
We’re the government, and we’re here to help.
Let’s have about 50,000 more regulations that make even LESS sense than that one. Let’s put the government in charge of the health care system.
Vote for ObamaCare, and you’ll get all the bureaucracies, committees (and don’t forget all the various types of committees, such as special committees and standing committees; and whatever you do, don’t forget the myriad, subcommittees), panels, working groups, etc. etc. ad infinitum, that you could ever hope for.
I mean, if you want to make an appointment with your doctor, this is clearly the process you should want to follow, isn’t it?:
There’s a line from a Chuck Schwab commercial: the stock broker says to win your confidence: “Trust me. I make money when you make money.” And that’s true. But of course, what he almost always fails to tell you is that he also makes money when you LOSE money, withdraw money, or when your money just sits in his portfolio not doing anything. And that clarification changes the whole picture: he’s not on YOUR side, benefiting only when YOU benefit; he’s on HIS side, structuring the game so that he wins no matter WHAT happens to you.
And don’t think for a nanosecond that that isn’t exactly what politicians are doing with your health care.
In the same spirit, when your big government liberal tells you that the “public option” will cover you for life, just remember this one little detail:
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Start Thinking Right 
October 1, 2009 at 5:57 am
This babysitting ‘craziness’ should be enough to wake any reasonably sane person up to the absurdity and danger of ‘government’ takeover control of our everyday lives.
I had a conversation with my doctor yesterday. He was telling me why he thought a government option would be helpful. I listened patiently as he went on and on about all the mess he has to deal with in his practice. I finally got a word in and said if he thought a government plan was going to solve ANY of the problems he had, he need only look at all the examples of ‘big government’ running things to prove they won’t solve the problems, they make them bigger and worse! He did agree with me that the trial lawyers were a problem that needed to be addressed quickly.
I don’t think I got through to him, but I tried.
It was apparant to me that Obama and his media have done a great job of whipping people into a panic that ‘something’ MUST be done NOW or multitudes will be dying in the streets! There is no time to carefully and thoughtfully deal with the problems surrounding health care and insurance and ACTUALLY SOLVE PROBLEMS. NO, the thugs are scaring people into a panic as they attempt to takeover our lives in every way possible. They are despicable beyond words!!!
Michael, I keep getting astounded at how many seemingly intelligent, highly educated people I observe and interact with who lack common sense and connection to REALITY. I always thought they were so much smarter than I was. I am being proved wrong on that point on a daily basis!
Well, thanks for letting me vent, I feel better :)
October 2, 2009 at 2:48 am
HL, there are a lot people who are incredibly intelligent in terms of IQ, but who have a truly false worldview that compel them to be stupid (because they believe in stupid things). As the quickest example I could think of, take a woman who says, “My Barbie doll taught me that the primary goal of life is to be really, really, really thin.” On the level of intelligence she hasn’t failed: it’s a logical inference to draw from Ms. Barbie. But on the level of worldview, it’s pathetic on SO many levels.
We desperately need a “God’s eye view” to begin to understand the world as it really is. If one doesn’t have that, he/she lives in a world of theories that have no connection to reality. Take Marxism: it is probably the biggest economic failure in world history, and has resulted in 100 million plus murdered during peacetime. And yet the left continues to embrace it. It’s like, “We despise the Judeo-Christian worldview, and this is what’s left.”
We don’t need to be afraid of these people. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools.
A tidbit:
If you want to make conservatives angry, tell them a lie. If you want to make liberals angry, tell them the truth.