The teat of dependency

 

 

"Life is good when everything is decided and done for you. It is like being a baby all over again!"

This morning's newspaper said it all. It explained in great detail the Governor's budget. How he wants to spend OUR money. Who he wants to reward, and who he wants to punish. For those he wants to punish, he is ready to take away their drug of choice. Which drug is that? Money. Our tax money in which we entrust to the government.

The government uses our money to reward or punish. Most of all however, the government uses our money to enslave. To make us dependent. As we know dependency leads to obedience, to votes, and then to more dependency. And the government is very good at this.

The Governor, as the arbiter of our tax money, is going to take it to the Minneapolis Park Board. They have committed a mortal sin against the "machine". What have they done? Since they are entrusted with the preservation of the city parks, they balked at how the Met Council wants to construct the SWLRT line. Consequently, the Governor did not like the Park Board spending some of their own budget to look at alternate paths for this choo-choo train. A different path to protect the parks. Because any light rail line is looked upon as sacrosanct by the statists, the Governor looked at the Park Board as committing bureaucratic blasphemy. To punish the Park Board, the Governor is going to withhold their funding.

The MNSCU system is also getting spanked. The Governor does not like the fact the vision going forward is not unified. Rather than sitting down with them and deciding what is best for the state of Minnesota, he threatened to (gasp!) not increase their funding. Wait a minute! I thought we were in a "tuition freeze". What do we need an increase for?

Rather than worry about the fact that many of our kids graduate ill-equipped for college, tech school or life, the Governor wants to bathe the Pre-K system will all kinds of money. It is funny - us "Baby Boomers" did not have Pre-K. We did however, have a good and normal curriculum to learn from. And many of us lived in households which were not dependent on the "system". Most of us seemed to turn out okay. Much can be said for not being raised with the teat of dependency in our mouths. And who put the teat there to start with? For the most part, we can thank Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society Program from the 60's.

So the battle is now joined. We shall see how the Republican's react to this bloated budget. If they will stand strong on principle, or if they will cave like a bunch of wounded and scared RINOs. Based on behavior from the past, I am not very hopeful about the future. Move over, there might soon be another empty teat available...