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One of the other members of PeacockWatch just sent this to me. It is the beginning of an article in the Wall St. Journal by Peter Sanders.

“In another twist to the ongoing saga to replace the Air Force’s aging fleet of aerial refueling tankers, United Aircraft Corp. of Russia is planning to bid on the $40 billion contract, according to a person familiar with its plans.

“United Aircraft, an aerospace consortium owned by the Russian government, will seek to offer a tanker version of its Ilyushin Il-96 wide-body jetliner, dubbed the Il-98, this person said. The planes would be largely built in Russia, and assembled in the U.S., …”

My first reaction was an outraged “Has someone lost their minds to even begin to engage even one brain cell for a microsecond of time to entertain this suicidal thought?”

Then I remembered that I shouldn’t be surprised that Washington would think about going down this trail. After all, whatever political party is in charge it is clear that they have been selling the citizens down the river for decades just so they can cement their own positions of power during what remains of their miserable lifetimes. Past that self-serving thought it is clear that they don’t give a damn about what our founders stood for or what the majority of this country believes. Because of their decisions national defense in a protracted conventional war is already a lost cause anyway. Our manufacturing infrastructure is almost non-existent. The talent that would turn raw materials into finished product if a manufacturing infrastructure did exist is disappearing with a generating that is now old and dying. We have tax laws that chase business overseas. We are developing a socialist mentality in Washington that demonizes successful entrepreneurs who make money for themselves and create jobs.

The list goes on.

Since Washington is doing so many things to destroy our infrastructure and turn our fabric of life socialist why shouldn’t we start building our major weapons of war overseas. That would finish the job in grand fashion. When our country decides to take a political or moral stand that our creditors, suppliers and builders don’t like they can simply shut us down until we succumb to their will.

I no longer wonder where the real loyalty of our leadership in Washington lies. And it is not with you and me or our country.

During an unanticipated absence from our blog several questions churned through Peacock’s mind. We would appreciate your thoughts on these questions. We will include your comments in future blogs and also provide what we believe are some of the answers to these questions.

Why does the government demand an increasing amount of taxes from us as time goes on? Even those who pay no income tax pay tax. Go here, http://www.allamericanblogger.com/2242/how-much-tax-do-you-pay/, to see the various categories of taxes.

Why does the government demand that citizens register their firearms?

Why does the Democratic Party insist on government-managed health care?

Why does the federal government collect taxes from residents and businesses in states only to give it back to the states as part of federal programs?

Why are governments in some states pushing to outlaw home schooling and private schooling?

Why does the federal government demand that soldiers read Miranda rights to people on the battlefield who have been trying to kill them?

Why does the President not have line item veto power?

Why do members of Congress decry the practice of adding riders to bills but then put their own pork in the next bill?

Why are so many members of Congress much richer and much better paid than the people they represent?

Why aren’t members of Congress subject to the law to the same extent as the people they represent?

Why do members of Congress receive a massively generous retirement program that is much better than the social security program that the people they represent pay into but Congress is exempted from?

Why is the constant failure of government agencies and programs rewarded with: more government?

Why are our children held hostage to teacher’s unions?

Why, faced with the most severe financial crisis of our generation, are we talking about increasing taxes while there is no talk of deep cuts in government?

Peacock believes there are three common threads running through all the potential answers to these questions.

First. Money is power. But some who have had outrageous amounts of money have admitted that the power eventually becomes more important to them than the money. The actions that Congress and the Presidents have put into place over a long period of time show that money is very important to them. However, like the feudal lords of old, it is clear that power over their “serfs” is even more important.

The Second is an extension of the First. Power is an addiction. Those who have it want more and those who don’t have it may be obsessed by a desire for it. The “old boys club” in the highest ranks of the Executive and Legislative branches of our government are engaged in an incestuous relationship of power and shared privilege. The more they have the more they want no matter what the cost to the “serfs”.

The Third is the permission by the “serfs” for the “lords to indulge in the first two. Americans want their elected leaders to lead. They willingly give their trust and power to those they elect to office. Americans clearly will do this almost to a fault. However, when the “lords” get used to the power that has been transferred to them by the “serfs” it requires a major efforts to make the elected “lords” remember and understand that they are really supposed to be the “serfs”.

What do you think?

We have been living in the age of the computer for some years now, and one thing we have learned is that a computer, like many man made creations, can get…what’s the technical term, “All hosed up”.  The longer the computer has been running, the more its operating system gets confused and clogged-up, until the only remedy is to restore the operating system to its original state. In the old days of mainframe computing this was called an I.P.L. (Initial Program Loading).  In the age of the personal computer, it is the same problem and the same solution, but it is called a re-boot.

Our government to date has been running for some 234 years, and is at an age where, in the political history of the world, governments begin to get “all hosed up” and break down.  As if right on schedule, our political system is now on the verge of a catastrophic break down, and we must soon decide if we shall just let it die a natural death (as is the history of most democracies) or whether we re-boot the thing and let it continue for another couple of hundred years.
How did we arrive here?  Well, it has been a long and assorted affair, but a simplified explanation is that government, in any form, is a bureaucracy, and all such organizations invariably exhibit the same life cycle.

All bureaucracies set out to solve a problem and thereby intend to do good by serving their constituency.  By and by, they all end up serving only themselves.  Further, they not only do not solve the problem, they usually exacerbate it.  Power, greed and corruption grow like cancers on the organism, ultimately rendering it immobilized, ineffective, and dead.

Over the life of our country all three branches of our government have shredded and hosed-up our original operating system, not in one fell swoop, but over many years.  Like the steady drip, drip, drip of water on a rock, our once fault tolerant operating system has now been eroded, and the machine, while not yet crashing, is in a very confused state, and is not able to take rational actions on behalf of the country.

Our Congress passes legislation that contorts, confuses, and ultimately fails.  It then steps back in with more legislation designed to fix the problem it caused.  After failing at everything it has touched, it exhibits an inexhaustible appetite to take on more, more, while all of the while eroding the liberties of the people it is designed to serve.  It has set itself above the people it purports to serves, and does not, by and large, live under the laws it imposes upon the governed.  Too often, it is bought by the highest bidder, legally or otherwise.  It is never held accountable.  The long train of abuses and usurpations of Congress would fill a large book.  Sadly, we just write it off as politics.

Our Judiciary, the self-professed ultimate guardian of our operating system, has become both political and ideological, and has read into the operating system code that was never there, nor meant to be there.  In the absence of finding original code, it has constructed its own instructions into the operating system, and in dong so has encroached upon the role of the legislature, and ultimately the people.

The Executive may be the only branch of government that is fairly true to the original operating system, only because it has been kept in check by the other two branches.  Yet, even here, more and more is done with executive fiat designed to evade the Legislature.

Our operating system is called “The Constitution of the United States of America”.  It was programmed by an outstanding array of men who miraculously happened to be at the same place and at the same time in the most critical moment of our history.  If our operating system needs to be changed, it needs to be done by the proscribed processes, not by judges, politicians, political operatives, and other rubes.

Meanwhile, the supposed master of the machine, the U.S. Taxpayer, has instead become a slave to the machine.  Instead of the machine serving them, they are spending on the average of 40% of their productive time working for the machine.  The machine is destroying their liberties, re-distributing their wealth, and conferring rights to people that were never mentioned or intended by the original operating system.  The majority is mad and in a very ugly mood indeed.

It is time to restore the original operating system.  It is time to restore our constitution and take back our country.

It is time to re-boot.