The EPA is also behind those fraudulent “estimated city/highway MPG” ratings.

For an analogy, if the household was struggling financially due to the breadwinner(s) having to take lower pay, etc, in the government way of thinking, the household would borrow against their assets (house, cars, etc) and dig a deeper hole, expecting the family to help them out if they got stuck. Or, when faced with little Timmy needing braces, they would go ahead and get them put in, not knowing how to pay for them.

Although this seems fundamentally insane, it is how our government works with the lobbyists and special interests and those who squawk the loudest getting their way.

At least in one respect, the one good thing about going socialist (if there is such a thing) is that the lefties just want to cut out the middle man and rather than have the government debate over who gets the money…just have the government control everything.

All great in theory. But..then….Werner Von Braun had a lot of things that worked great “in theory” but it took several hundred design permutations to get to a rocket that worked all the time.

My point is that our society isn’t based on letting the government control ANYTHING but for using our legal system to allow the PEOPLE to police ourselves. The government, in its current iteration, has lost sight of the separation of the branches of government and are all blurring it together to form one cohesive and ILLEGAL operation that doesn’t make a move without checking with the executive branch first.

It has crept in over the years and it has been pervasive and neither party is immune. But the system only works if you follow the directions. Of course, S&L readers know this and I’m not saying anything new here. But it frustrates me that the intent and ideal of our system is perverted into an organized crime syndicate, pay-for-play and nobody unable to have the stones to resist temptation.

The only difference I would’ve made to the Constitution is that anyone seeking public office had to have been EMPLOYED for at least 10 years before being eligible. And that that employment had to consist of being an order-taker as well as an order-giver. A job where they had to manage their own money, pay bills, and see where it went.

But then, that’s my version of “utopia”.

An agency that has never produced a btu’s worth of energy and can not implement a simple program.

Raining money down upon failure – it is the democrat way.

I had a computer screen once that was Energy Star compliant, back when I had a desktop. It fried within a few months of purchase.

Makes perfect why it did now.

Who could have imagined that our benevolent government could make a mistake like failing to check whether an esteemed badge of honor like the “Energy Star” was indeed merited.

Why it’s almost as if we had military heroes, with say 3 Purple Hearts and 2 Silver Stars, who had made up their exploits from whole cloth. Thank God THAT can’t happen.

And thank God that every claim made for Universal Health Care will be rigorously enforced by our government, which works so intensely to protect the citizens from all evils.

Why, just look at Medicare for proof of that.

This is why we need the government to control every detail of our lives.

We need something we can trust to take care of us.