Sipping the jitter juice really got the Crackpot worked up when California governor Meg Whitman talked out of both sides of her mouth about the illegal immigrant law in Arizona after parts of it were blocked by a federal judge.
“You know, I’m running for the governor of California, so I had to make a decision,” Whitman said. “Does the Arizona law make sense for California? And I have said no, I don’t think the Arizona law makes sense for California because we have a much bigger state with much bigger geography.”
What kind of bullshit answer is that? The Crackpot can’t seem to quite understand this. Granted, Arizona covers 114,006 square miles, compared to California’s 163,707 square miles, but what Whitman says is that the issue is too big for California law enforcement to handle because of the state’s geography?
Well, just a sweep through the flat Central Valley would really knock down a huge part of the problem in California. That could be a start, Meg. Then move down through Southern California and near the border. Then conduct a few sweeps in Northern California. I don’t it’s that hard of a problem to tackle.
But this comes from the candidate who says she can fix California government but really doesn’t have a plan. This comes from the candidate who makes statements similar to Arnold Schwarzenegger’s when he originally ran for governor. She says that difference between her and Schwarzenegger is that she has business experience. Hmmm. How is that going to help in government when she has to work with people across the aisle? She doesn’t go into any detail there. Unlike a CEO, she can’t say, “You’re fired!” and be queen for a day.
If she becomes the state’s next governor, and she goes in with the attitude that she can fix the state’s issues because has business experience, she’s going to fail just like Schwarzenegger did.
The sad part is that people are going to take her doublespeak, elect her, and wonder what they hell they did and then replace her after four years with someone else who will do the same to them.
On the illegal immigration issue, it doesn’t matter if a person is brown, white, red, yellow or whatever. What is so hard about following the law and doing the things the legal way? I don’t understand. . .
Friday, July 30, 2010
Monday, July 19, 2010
The count matters; the tactics suck
While sipping on a cup of morning gasoline, the Crackpot noticed this story from the AP, wherein a U.S. Census worker decides to trespass onto a private citizen's property and insists on not leaving the property owner alone after being told to leave.
The Crackpot understands that every ten years, the federal government is required to conduct a census under the law, but at the same time where is the line drawn between what the ever-intruding-in-your-life government wants and the privacy from the government the people want to enjoy, especially in a time where there is an anti-government sentiment in the nation.
According to the story, census worker Russell Haas said he was trained to be persistent by the census bureau. Do they train you to trespass and badger? Is that where your tax dollars are going?
"Dude, you have to be in the Census," Haas said, to the property owner, an off-duty police officer, who presented his badge to Haas.
Haas' claim to the property owner is so Atlas Shrugged, and it seems that he should told him, "It's your patriotic duty to comply. It's for the good of the people."
Celeste Jimenez, of the Los Angeles Regional Census Center, said it's important for residents to participate.
"It affects how over $400 billion of federal funding are allocated each year to states for infrastructure and services such as hospitals, job training centers, schools, emergency services," she said.
Well, that's good and all, but the the larger question is how much government needs to be in our lives? Why does it feel that it needs to keep expanding by giving money to these matters? That sounds bad, but everything is underfunded as it is, and no matter how much money is thrown at something, people are going to claim that more is needed for it to work. The government certainly can't manage very effectively the things that are on it's plate, and there redundancies in departments and redundancies between agencies; wars drag on; nonsense spending at our expense.
The Crackpot seems to have digressed here and strayed from the topic. To get back on track, the Crackpot hopes the judge throws the book at Haas to make an example of him. The federal government can't do as it pleases "in the name of the public good." This country's founders gave its citizens the right to privacy from the government.
Now, the Census Bureau showed up with a court order and the resident comply, that would be different, and that's another discussion all together. But in this case, the government overstepped its bounds.
The Crackpot understands that every ten years, the federal government is required to conduct a census under the law, but at the same time where is the line drawn between what the ever-intruding-in-your-life government wants and the privacy from the government the people want to enjoy, especially in a time where there is an anti-government sentiment in the nation.
According to the story, census worker Russell Haas said he was trained to be persistent by the census bureau. Do they train you to trespass and badger? Is that where your tax dollars are going?
"Dude, you have to be in the Census," Haas said, to the property owner, an off-duty police officer, who presented his badge to Haas.
Haas' claim to the property owner is so Atlas Shrugged, and it seems that he should told him, "It's your patriotic duty to comply. It's for the good of the people."
Celeste Jimenez, of the Los Angeles Regional Census Center, said it's important for residents to participate.
"It affects how over $400 billion of federal funding are allocated each year to states for infrastructure and services such as hospitals, job training centers, schools, emergency services," she said.
Well, that's good and all, but the the larger question is how much government needs to be in our lives? Why does it feel that it needs to keep expanding by giving money to these matters? That sounds bad, but everything is underfunded as it is, and no matter how much money is thrown at something, people are going to claim that more is needed for it to work. The government certainly can't manage very effectively the things that are on it's plate, and there redundancies in departments and redundancies between agencies; wars drag on; nonsense spending at our expense.
The Crackpot seems to have digressed here and strayed from the topic. To get back on track, the Crackpot hopes the judge throws the book at Haas to make an example of him. The federal government can't do as it pleases "in the name of the public good." This country's founders gave its citizens the right to privacy from the government.
Now, the Census Bureau showed up with a court order and the resident comply, that would be different, and that's another discussion all together. But in this case, the government overstepped its bounds.
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