What Do The Following Have In Common?

Inflation, The Great Lakes, climate, cyber space, cars, Federal Tech, energy, Iran, bank bailouts, urban areas, borders, drugs and compensation? Give up? They all have a Federal Czar! What’s more there are eight others I couldn’t immediately identify.

If you changed Washington, D.C. to St. Petersburg and Pennsylvania Ave. to Nevski the Romanoff’s might feel right at home. At least one of them might.

Nicholas II, unlike his father, ruled with an iron hand and would brook no deviance by his standard bearers.

Hmm, didn’t we just hear about an Inspector General who was asked to resign by the White House and when he refused he was fired? And for what, a personal affront to one of the President’s friends and an impending investigation?

When Nichols II was informed that the rope had broken during the attempted execution of one of his enemies, his response? “Take a new rope and finish the execution”. Wow, have we come a long way or what?

Fast forward a couple hundred years. This administration and its czars are attempting to do something they are uniquely unqualified to do, have the Federal Government run private companies, their executives, executives salary, the internet and even automobile companies.

Never, in the history of our country has government fixed a problem within the private sector. The private sector fixes these problems itself. If a car company cannot sustain itself, it either goes bankrupt or gets rearranged (in layman's terms), or it goes out of business. It’s time they were left to their own devices. They’re in this mess because the unions have counted on the Federal Government to step in.

If the unions knew the Government wasn’t going to intervene, do you think they would allow companies to cease to exist? Or, do you believe they would renegotiate terms. If they didn’t, the company could either file Chapter 11 or cease to exist. Either way the union is kaput.

The same applies to the banks. There is a tremendous hue and cry about banks not following the rules and ‘look what they’ve done and look how they’ve ruined people’. Who told them to abandon established rules of lending under threat of Federal intervention (make that trumped up discriminatory lending charges)? Look no further than......drum rolls please, Barney Frank and Chris Dodd.

These same folks NOW tell us they’re outraged, I mean they’re livid and they’re going to do something about it. Hopefully the voters will beat them to the punch in the mid-terms.

Czars are proliferating in Washington as if the Administration and Congress were on Czaragra. If they pop any more of that brand of little blue pill, the czar’s salaries will necessitate another tax just to cover it.

You’re the doctor. Say no to any refills on this prescription in 2010.