Aug

4

Louie Gohmert, Connie Mack and Mike Lee are no more heroic for voting what their constituencies want than the City Council of San Francisco is heroic for deciding that orthodox Judaism is the one religion not entitled to the protections of the 1st Amendment (of all the health issues confronting our formerly free city the question of circumcision has somehow become the burning issue). Clearly, the voters of the United States have chosen to have the country follow a course that will allow most of the recipients of government money to keep getting their checks. What else could have been expected? The only question was whether or not even lip service would be paid to the notion of a balanced budget. Until now, under both Republicans and Democrats, Congress has worshiped at the altar of the Keynesian religion; as Nixon said, everyone agreed that somehow money printed and circulated in the proper digital form would increase actual wealth.

The present legislation at least questions the God of free money; it does not do much to end the abomination, but it is a beginning - just as the Northwest Ordinance was towards the abolition of slavery. The vice of all government - the taking of property in the name of the law - was not going to magically end in the United States because Rick Santelli had an inspired rant on CNBC and the Democrats once again tried to nationalize health care. Those of us who voted to have lip service paid to the ideas of economic liberty will take what we have gotten and then, as Samuel Gompers advised, ask for much more.

P.S. It always delighted me that Gompers and Andrew Carnegie were buried nearly side by side in Sleepy Hollow cemetery.


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