Monday, June 05, 2006
"If You Can’t Run Your Own House, How Can You Run a Nation?"
This is so true.
I've just become a fan of J.B. Williams...
I've just become a fan of J.B. Williams...
In the San Francisco Chronicle, J.B. Williams writes, "If You Can’t Run Your Own House, How Can You Run a Nation?":
"Likewise, would we hand our personal finances over to someone who has gone bankrupt numerous times? Would we ask the local television repairman to perform our much-needed brain surgery? Should we seek marriage counseling from people divorced three or more times, or people who have never been married at all? People all over the world, who have never known freedom, liberty, or self-governance, have all kinds of strange opinions about how America should function. Do any of these un-American opinions count for anything in America?"
"We have a right to do all of these things, but would we, and should we do them? We even have the right to commit complete national suicide though poor decisions made on the basis of poor information, but why would we do that on purpose?"
"Do we really expect people personally economically dependent upon our federal government for their every meal, to ever vote for anything other than a better free meal? Why do we want convicted felons to have a vote? Have they not demonstrated the very worst of decision making abilities? These ideas might be nice, in a politically correct but nationally suicidal sort of way. But are they wise?"
