We all know we saw this one coming.
This is one of the many examples of how this administration has been ridiculously expanding the size of the government. At Wednesday's townhall meeting, Obama mentioned how the military is "overburned" by our current wars and how a civilian force is needed.This is nothing new. Obama himself mentioned this when we was campaigning two years ago:
"We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded," Obama said in July 2, 2008.
According to President Obama, this civilian force could also be used as another tool for our blessed nation-building efforts from abroad. The administration has been talking about efforts to drastically increase the bugdet of the State Department as well. Oh, and this civilian force will be funded on roughly the same scale as the military.
Instead of doing the wise thing -- limiting government, and stopping all forms of nation-building and interventionism -- this administration is doing the exact opposite. But with the health care bill , TARP and the finance reform bill passed, the PATRIOT act renewed, etc., should we really expect any sensible limitations from our wise overlords?
Because we're getting the money to basically double the military's budget (not to mention the constitutional authority) for this where, exactly?
Helicopter Ben? For the money at least.
Charles is right. Remember what Ben Bernanke once wrote: America has an amazing technology called the printing press, which allows us to create money at "no cost."
Then again, I'm as or more worried about our civil liberties here, than I am about the plan's economic feasibility.
What baffles me is that Obama taught Constitutional Law at the University of Chicago. But who am I to say?
I guess if you turn your brain off then you'll understand him.
If you read Alinksy, then you'll understand him. You'll be able to read him like a book.
You're right. I'm putting Rules for Radicals on my reading list. =P
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