Wednesday, April 16, 2008

A Real Pain in the Neck

Anti-Positivist: A Real Pain in the Neck

Columbus resident Jim Fedako has a posting on his weblog Anti-Positivist, via the Von Mises Institute, mocking his congressman, Pat Tiberi (R-OH), and his latest effort to expand the size and scope of the federal government.

In the latest version of Tiberi's Capitol Notebook, our hero notes that, during a recent audience with one of his serfs, he learned about the trials and tribulation of those suffering chronic pain. Since a man of action does not sit idle, Tiberi researched the issue and soon found two other lords who also have serfs in the same predicament. Luckily, these masters were a little ahead of the issue, having co-introduced the National Pain Care Policy Act to "address the lack of education, access to care and research surrounding chronic pain." Relief is just around the corner.

Missing from this solution is any help for the serf whose pain started this whole mess. Missing is any recognition that government committees and panels, whether blues ribbon or otherwise, produce nothing; nothing save waste.

In the end, our serf will have to work a little longer and a little harder in order to pay for the increased misallocation of resources; resources that moved away from the entrepreneurs in the market to bureaucrats sitting in conference rooms, feasting on policies, regulations and catered meals.

Read the whole posting here.

Comment: Until we start developing a new crop of politicians within the Ohio Republican Party (ORP) we will continue to mirror the Ohio Democrat Party, and further push this nation and state deeper and deeper into government debt and tyranny.

But every time you donate time and support to the ORP you continue to prop up this broken organization. The best thing we can do in Ohio is boycott the ORP, and then get involved with our county republican party to find and support potential candidates that could bring true republican ideals back to the ORP. Until that day comes, we will continue to see similar actions like those of Mr. Tiberi.

Not One Red Cent until change comes!

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