A Liberal Wants the GOP Back

I hope the GOP wins enough to make government good again for business. Not because the GOP stands for anything other than noise making, like a bunch of petulant fogies, women and men. It doesn’t make any difference, in the short term. But then, you see, once they do get back into government will I get to pick on them just because they are there. Right now it is like hunting in a baited field.

Besides, our government works best when the power is balanced between the parties. Independents do not count in this arrangement, Independents are opportunists. I do not like an executive and legislative branch to be of the same ilk because that is bad for business, the real kind.

The real kind of business is about making profit and protecting your people, not one or the other. At the conclusion of the Bush administration came that good old division of labor about which I wax. All it could do was to figure out where the brake pedal was and how to get the government’s foot to it. That is why the Clinton administration produced a surplus of money. There was legislative opposition that meant something other than sound bites.

OK, forget what you never really learned.

There are 5 branches of government in our world, according to me. Judicial, Executive and Legislative are the first three – the ones they taught in high school while you were busy being hormone driven, hungry and bored. Those branches would be the ones that Tommy J wrote down and his buds legislated two centuries ago. Never mind all of that other crap you kind of learned. It’s wrong. The Constitution says what it is, but I digress.

There are two other branches of government, according to me.  The fourth branch is bureaucracy. Bureaucracy’s job is to protect the soft underbelly of the government and to spend all of the money it is budgeted. Never mind what it is supposed to do, its job is to spend all of the money in its budget so it can request more next year, and the year after that. It is like the begetting in the Bible and all of those pyramid-shaped organization charts. Congress is elected. Bureaucrats are forever. Congress funds bureaucracies. Bureaucrats are appointed public servants with staff. That is Biblical.

The fifth branch is media. We have a noble calling to keep an eye on the other four branches of government and report their findings to the public, which indirectly supports it by advertising, a creature of media. Thus media is represented by unelected, non-appointed public officials with staff and no congressional budget. Media is a protected species under law. We are unprotected commodities under business practice.  If it’s in print, it must be true. If you didn’t hear it on radio, it’s bull. Twitter is bird shit. The birds are healthy and so is the bull upon which these birds feed.

Article Author: Tommy Mack

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