Best Choice for Senate Seat? None of the Above

[muzzled dogg]

Best Choice for Senate Seat? None of the Above
Published: Thursday, May 20, 2010



By JANE-HOWARD HAMMERSTEIN

Insofar as our state is concerned, and our state should be the prime focus of our concern right now: Stop The Madness. Stop regarding and referring to The Government as if it were an abstract ogre, a thing we bitch about that is separate from us. They are us. Not one of them got where he/she is without the most votes. They are us.

“Big Government” is catch phrase, a slogan. Those who shout or write it never use the phrase “Small Government” as a remedy. Why no banners for “Good Government” that, were we to have it, would work on our behalf and the world’s? It appears people who think our country has come to a happy pass via “Big Business” are content or even thrilled having such expensive smoke blown up their nether regions.

Richard Blumenthal, to whom I have given support money, is neither as honest as I hoped (“when I served in Vietnam”) nor as smart as I thought (“when I served in Vietnam” out loud); Linda McMahon’s ads sneer at “career politicians” while asking us to support her attempts to become one; Peter Schiff wants “government off our backs and out of our pocketbooks” so the plutocrats/oligarchs can get on and into both—easy for them to say with private schools and private roads and private garbage pick-up.

For me, being a Progressive (a/k/a Liberal) is being who I am and have always been. I hope the same for those with alternate positions. I do not accept that I must be an enemy of them in order to live the political part of my life. Who started all the mud wrestling? No reference to Ms McMahon intended.

Who started the very successful ploy of getting votes by flattering individual groups and clutches to the detriment of others? Which candidate of the several in one candidate do you vote for? It’s loony. Goofy. Silly. Embarrassing. Make the candidates give you/me the same answers they give others; don’t let our representatives slither by this again; and hold each to those positions. They are each what we each demand of them. They always have been. Our Bad Guys are our fault.

Unless you have informed yourself and are entirely sold, in every way small and large, with any one of the Connecticut candidates for Senate, hand write “None Of The Above” as your vote. We cannot sent the merely acceptable or the lesser of other evils to Washington to manage our country. It hasn’t worked thus far and there’s no reason to assume it will begin to work.



—Jane-Howard Hammerstein lives in Washington Depot.

http://www.countytimes.com/articles/2010/05/20/opinion/doc4bf54da6e3d3c672256066.txt

 

[Epic]

She falls for the we=government fallacy.

"But why worry about the weakness of limits on governmental power? Especially in a "democracy," in the phrase so often used by American liberals in their heyday before the mid-1960s when doubts began to creep into the liberal Utopia "Are we not the government?" In the phrase "we are the government," the useful collective term "we" has enabled an ideological camouflage to be thrown over the naked exploitative reality of political life For if we truly are the government, then anything a government does to an individual is not only just and not tyrannical, it is also "voluntary" on the part of the individual concerned If the government has incurred a huge public debt which must be paid by taxing one group on behalf of another, this reality of burden is conveniently obscured by blithely saying that "we owe it to ourselves" (but who are the "we" and who the "ourselves"?) If the government drafts a man, or even throws him into jail for dissident opinions, then he is only "doing it to himself" and therefore nothing improper has occurred Under this reasoning, then, Jews murdered by the Nazi government were not murdered, they must have "committed suicide," since they were the government (which was democratically chosen), and therefore anything the government did to them was only voluntary on their part But there is no way out of such grotesqueries for those supporters of government who see the State merely as a benevolent and voluntary agent of the public."

Read more: For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto - Murray N. Rothbard http://mises.org/rothbard/newlibertywhole.asp#ixzz0oULOExuY

 

[K466]

That's too bad, I'm surprised she is not supporting Merrick Alpert.

Can someone get her to watch the mortgage bankers speech?

 

[sb10]

She sounds bitter and envious and is of the "government knows what's best for us" school.

 

[7402]

Her objection to Schiff is that she doesn't want to pay for garbage pick-up? This country is hopeless. Oh noes, without government, there would be no roads! We would be charged a million dollars to take out our trash! Tax tax tax! Give me a break.

 

[aspiringconstitutionalist]

Her objection to Schiff is that she doesn't want to pay for garbage pick-up? This country is hopeless. Oh noes, without government, there would be no roads! We would be charged a million dollars to take out our trash! Tax tax tax! Give me a break.

She already pays for garbage pickup through taxes. She just gets crappier service. But she just can't countenance the idea of leaving other people and their wallets alone.