I've also been amazed at some of the comments I see out in cyberspace whenever folks comment on the news stories. Here's one comment from an LA Times reader of an opinion piece entitled "Hey, Curiosity, don't forget to look for a rusted-out Martian Beetle"
nockamixon at 5:17 PM August 07, 2012The real waste -- the travesty -- is the amount the US spends on military. Imagine what kind of progress and breakthroughs we could accomplish if we diverted even a fraction of the money we put into war toward more humane pursuits?
This is an easy statement to make and makes one feel as though moral high ground is taken. At the bottom of this house of cards is the faulty assumption that the money has to be spent. Whose money is it? From where did it come?
When it's not your money, morality and accountability soon vanish, as evidenced by the recent GSA, Secret Service, and NOAA scandals.
The founding fathers realized this, but along the way we've unlearned the notion that no one can be trusted to spend someone else's money.
Morality is preserved when individuals are allowed to spend money at their choosing. Local community efforts are better served if individuals are allowed to spend their earnings on charities that are near to them, instead of sending the money to Washington and have the money "trickle down" to the charities and programs picked by government bureaucrats.
Allowing the government to choose winners and losers--be it charities, corporate bailouts, loan programs, or science programs is immoral, and always leads to ultimate corruption, as properly warned by the founding fathers. Regulation is not the answer, because the enormity of the regulatory bureaucracies overwhelms the good intentions after they take over.
We have over 200,000 pages of US Code. How much more do we need? How much more can we afford?
I'm Roy Obadiah and these are my rants.
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