It’s obviously not just me.
A quick Google search using the phrase “Dictators streamline government” popped with more than 41 million hits. Many of those hits include stories on President Obama’s latest talking point to streamline the federal government.
It’s easy not to trust this President when he says things like this… or at any time for that matter! While a majority of Americans favor cutting the federal government down to a much smaller and manageable size, the skeptic in me sees Obama as nothing more than a dictator on a quest for totalitarian rule under the guise of so-called Republican tenets.
Obama’s true colors and motives were blatantly evident when I heard a sound byte on the radio where he said that he will do this with or without the approval of Congress. Whatever happened to the rule of law and the separation of powers as articulated by the Constitution? Those are the words and premises of a dictator, not an executive who understands his authority and role!
Why wait until now to propose streamlining the government? Wasn’t that implied in the whole “Hope and Change” mantra that he ran upon? Why did he push the massive health care plan that had to be lied about and massaged to purportedly keep under a trillion dollars in cost? With government costs and debt spiraling out of control, why propose streamlining some of the smallest agencies in the federal government when the budgets of agencies such as the EPA have ballooned in size since Obama was elected? At what time in American history has any agency of the government had to do more with less (unless, of course, it’s the repeated call from Liberals to take a hatchet to the Department of Defense)?
The idea to streamline government is noble. It needs to be done if the United States collectively, as well as the individual states, are going to survive economically. But history shows that governments that accumulate power and wealth (the United States is no different) have never been able to vote themselves a smaller piece of the tax pie.
Related articles
- Obama Seeks Greater Power To Shrink The Federal Government (huffingtonpost.com)
- President Obama Seeks Power to Streamline Government: A Slog Poll (slog.thestranger.com)
- Obama seeks more power to merge agencies, streamline government – Washington Post (washingtonpost.com)
- Obama Wants To Shrink The Size Of Federal Government (alan.com)
- Boehner spokesman: Will agency merger help or is it just for show? (thehill.com)
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