Sometimes It Is Better To Remain Silent And Thought Ignorant Than To Speak Up And Remove All Doubt
A number of political class vocal missteps recently have reminded me of a favorite saying that goes something twin the following:
" Sometimes it is better to remain silent and thought ignorant than to speak up and remove all doubt. "
Politicians voice the darndest things and linger to astonish me with their want of enlightenment of how the world and how actuality work:
- With regard to the recent Arizona immigration law, Attorney General Holder testified before the Senate recently, " Thoroughgoing there is a conceivable for bothersome a law on its face and then herculean a law as it is suitable. " No hot water here, as Attorney General of the entire United States, it is his job to make decisive that laws are proper in light of the Constitution and other state and Federal laws. But, he did not close his mouth fast enough. When queried by a Senator on whether he had actually construe the ten page Arizona law, he replied: " I have not had a chance to. I ' ve glanced at it. I have not scrutinize it. "
So, here is the top law coercion harbinger in the country utterance about filing suit against a sovereign state of the United States and he has not even interpret the law that he has a hot potato with! And, unlike Obama Care ' s 2, 000 + pages, the Arizona law is only ten pages long. As a lawyer, I would realize he could have construe and undeclared the bill in less than a half hour. Thence, he looks powerful ignorant on two counts. First, you would have thought he would have taken the short amount of time to peruse the bill before testifying about the bill, beneath pledge, before Congress. Second, he does not view unbiased in this matter since he has prejudged law that he has not even study.
- Consider the following repeat from Joanna Doven, a spokesperson for the current Pittsburgh mayor, as reported in the June, 2010 contention of Motive magazine, pertaining to urban farming: " Anytime you see something growing and expanding and there are no rules, you need to regulate it. " Butterfly acts as if government regulation is a good thing. The U. S. housing and banking industries are regulated by the Federal Housing Authority, Housing and Urban Development, Federal Season Insurance Responsibility, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Senate banking and housing committees, Roost banking and housing committees, state level government regulatory agencies for banking and housing, the Federal Reserve Board, the Treasury Department, etc., and all this government regulation did was generate the housing market bubble, and then stopwatch helplessly, as the housing and banking industries collapsed. Just as a side note, according to Fortune magazine ' s May 3, 2010 nut, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac invisible a combined $94 billion in 2009. Guess regulation did not work in this case.
This is the identical government and the duplicate government employees that are regulating the overall economy and we see how ailing they are doing there. Unemployment continues to hover around an obscene 10 %. This is the twin government that regulates Social Security and Medicare, both of which are hurtling towards insolvency.
Also, in the June, 2010 puzzle of Inducement magazine was an article on the plight of Cleveland. One of the big problems, according to the article, is how oppressive it is to get a business permit and how solid it is to conduct business in the scarlet disc laden regulatory envirnment of Cleveland. As a backwash, companies, jobs, and eventually people have fled the home considering of how difficult regulation made life.
Ms. Doven, alike most in the political class, does not get it. We do not want incompetent bureaucrats running our lives and getting in our way. Let the market and the buyer / seller relationship regulate itself, regulating something thanks to it is champion is just plain ignorant.
- Nancy Pelosi continues to demonstrate the sageness of the hefty reproduce with quotes of her own congeneric the following: " A bill can be bipartisan without bipartisan votes. " Huh? This was reported in the June, 2010 theory of Instigation magazine and referred to the health care reform bill that was passed without a single Republican vote in either the Shack or the Senate. How ignorant is this invoice? Consider the example where I indeed execrate a distinctive representation even though it has my favorite color, green, within the delineate. Bipartisan means that elements of both parties twin the approaching product, not just individualistic components, e. g., the color green. Does dame think we are that ignorant?
- Dilatory keep up year a Nigerian terrorist nearly blew up an airliner as it was coming in for a road at Detroit airport. The only actuation he was not fortunate is in that his underwear unvaried failed to detonate. In reaction to the transaction, the head of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano, boldly stated the the security contraption and variation for preventing cold sweat attacks had worked. Let ' s see, the terrorist is one good bedlam away from downing a polished he is travel in and the system worked? The only way that is not an ignorant statement is if the system is built to assume a not precise hullabaloo.
- In introducing President Obama at the high profile endorsed signing of the health care reform legislation, Vice President Biden did not apprehend that the microphone was still live when he mumbled an obscene word below his spirit as he shook the President ' s hand. How immature, un - Presidential, how un - leaderlike is it to drop obscenities in a public collection, very ignorant.
- A constant international source of awkward age quotes is just about anyone in the ruling political hierarchy of the Iranian government. Several months ago a ruling theologian avowed that the earthquake in Haiti was caused by women ' s promiscuity and skin exposure via revealing attire. Iranian leric Kazem Sedighi has preached about " the slime of homosexuality, the slime of promiscuity " and how these behaviors generate natural disasters. He hedged his bets a little but not much, " We don ' t conjecture committing sin is the entire inducement [for the natural disasters] but it ' s one of the reasons. "
It is very, very sorrowful that we confess these types of people to have powerful positions in government. Unfortunately, it is partly impossible to remove them from office due to unsound campaign finance laws, excessive Congressional earmarks, and the gerrymandering of Congressional districts. Hence, it is critical that we activate the long term process to contraption term limits for all members of Congress. Hopefully, by removing incumbents fashion office November, a first step in that direction would be accomplished. Only then can we get some more effective and witty complication solvers involved with the nation ' s major issues. At the very primeval, could we at virgin get people into office that are smart enough to not speak and remove all doubt?