One Liner

Altruism belongs in church, not the ballot box.

The Government Needs Major Surgery

See http://www.cbo.gov/doc.cfm?index=3521&type=0 . This report by the CBO in 2002 shows the growth of the federal government and its expenses as a percent of GDP. Near the beginning of the 20^th century the federal government was about three percent of GDP in 1925. Today it is about 20 percent and is projected to be about 40 percent of GDP by 2075. This raises a couple of questions: (1) What happened to cause this drastic lurch in size? (2) What could be done to halt the growth of the federal government and reverse this troublesome trend?

What happened is easy enough to understand. The liberals-progressives-socialists took sway around the beginning of the 20^th century. Democrats and Republicans alike abused the constitution’s limitations of the federal government. One of the earliest abusers was Teddy Roosevelt who vowed to take all of the power he could.

What can be done follows – bring the federal government into agreement with the constitution. Article I, Section 8 lists the 18 or so general responsibilities of the federal government such as minting the coinage. Note that nowhere does the constitution mention education, yet there is a whole cabinet level department of education, so abolish it. A similar abolishment is called for such departments as agriculture; eliminate it along with the subsidies it passes out. Really, paying a farmer to not grow cranberries in Nebraska is too much!

On the Casey Anthony Verdict

There have been many pundits on TV and radio lamenting the Casey Anthony verdict, saying she was guilty of murder, even though the jury found otherwise. What the folks overlook (at the potential peril of our society itself) is Blackstone's ratio -- "better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer."