Thursday, October 10, 2013

The Washington Monument Syndrome

Jewish World Review ^ | October 9, 2013 | Ron Hart

We are over a week into the government shutdown; shouldn't we be looting Target for a flat screen TV by now? Why haven't you joined a marauding street gang?
Two things have become apparent: how little we need most of government, and how spiteful public servants can be when they do not get their funding.
A turning point in this game of government shutdown brinksmanship happened last week when "our" petulant government went to great lengths to shut down open air memorials in order to intimidate us from ever cutting its funding.
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This is a vengeful regime. It has no problem bullying and extorting from the people it was elected to serve.
The privately-funded World War II Veterans Memorial was blocked with barricades; it took more effort to barricade it than to staff it. When a busload of "greatest generation" veterans from Mississippi and Iowa showed up, the barricades didn't stop them. They did the right thing -- again. The World War II vets, self-reliant and with little tolerance for petty politics, came in anyway. They made the administration in D.C. look like exactly what it is: a bunch of heavy-handed, union-like goons.
This government tactic is called the "Washington Monument Syndrome," and is a well-worn ploy. It got its name in 1969 when the then-director of the National Park Service contrived a plot to pressure Congress into not cutting its funding by being defiant.
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In an interview this past weekend, Nancy Pelosi said that the government cannot cut any more. Pelosi also said she will not rest until Obamacare is fully implemented or until she captures all 101 Dalmatians.
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