Sometimes It Is Better To Remain Silent And Thought Ignorant Than To Speak Up And Remove All Doubt
A number of political class oral missteps recently have reminded me of a favorite saying that goes something same the following:
" Sometimes it is better to remain silent and thought ignorant than to speak up and remove all doubt. "
Politicians allege the darndest things and keep up to stun me with their lack of enlightenment of how the world and how reality work:
- With regard to the recent Arizona immigration law, Attorney General Holder testified before the Senate recently, " Thorough there is a likely for ball-buster a law on its face and then demanding a law as it is utilitarian. " No quandary here, as Attorney General of the entire United States, it is his job to make out-and-out 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 study the ten page Arizona law, he replied: " I have not had a chance to. I ' ve glanced at it. I have not study it. "
So, here is the top law horsepower guide in the country words about filing suit against a sovereign state of the United States and he has not even scan the law that he has a doubt with! And, unlike Obama Care ' s 2, 000 + pages, the Arizona law is only ten pages long. As a lawyer, I would deem he could have scrutinize and implicit the bill in less than a half hour. Consequently, he looks immoderately ignorant on two counts. First, you would have thought he would have taken the short amount of time to scan the bill before testifying about the bill, beneath pledge, before Congress. Second, he does not survey unbiased in this matter since he has prejudged law that he has not even peruse.
- Consider the following reproduce from Joanna Doven, a spokesperson for the current Pittsburgh mayor, as reported in the June, 2010 theory of Impetus magazine, pertaining to urban farming: " Anytime you see something growing and expanding and there are no rules, you need to regulate it. " Skirt 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 Heap Insurance Affair, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Senate banking and housing committees, Home plate 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 originate the housing market bubble, and then timer helplessly, as the housing and banking industries collapsed. Just as a side note, according to Fortune magazine ' s May 3, 2010 problem, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac off-track a combined $94 billion in 2009. Guess regulation did not work in this case.
This is the equivalent government and the equivalent government employees that are regulating the overall economy and we see how sick they are doing there. Unemployment continues to hover around an obscene 10 %. This is the corresponding government that regulates Social Security and Medicare, both of which are hurtling towards insolvency.
Also, in the June, 2010 question of Actuation magazine was an article on the plight of Cleveland. One of the big problems, according to the article, is how solid it is to get a business permit and how oppressive it is to conduct business in the ruby record laden regulatory envirnment of Cleveland. As a upshot, companies, jobs, and eventually people have fled the whereabouts whereas of how difficult regulation made life.
Ms. Doven, consonant 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 as it is fruitful is just plain ignorant.
- Nancy Pelosi continues to testify to the erudition of the ultra iterate with quotes of her own analogous the following: " A bill can be bipartisan without bipartisan votes. " Huh? This was reported in the June, 2010 affair of Cause magazine and referred to the health care reform bill that was passed without a single Republican vote in either the Cubbyhole or the Senate. How ignorant is this bill? Consider the example where I unquestionably loathe a personal picture even though it has my favorite color, green, within the call. Bipartisan means that elements of both parties uniform the forthcoming product, not just individual components, e. g., the color green. Does bird realize we are that ignorant?
- Slow push on year a Nigerian terrorist partly blew up an airliner as it was coming in for a accession at Detroit airport. The only cause he was not smashing is owing to his underwear routine failed to detonate. In reaction to the holiday, the head of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano, boldly stated the the security device and maneuver for preventing despair attacks had worked. Let ' s see, the terrorist is one good bedlam away from downing a leveled he is walk in and the system worked? The only way that is not an ignorant statement is if the system is built to assume a amiss yelp.
- In introducing President Obama at the high profile authorized signing of the health care reform legislation, Vice President Biden did not imagine that the microphone was still live when he mumbled an obscene word subservient his liveliness as he shook the President ' s hand. How immature, un - Presidential, how un - leaderlike is it to drop obscenities in a public crowd, very ignorant.
- A constant international source of prime quotes is just about anyone in the ruling political hierarchy of the Iranian government. Several months ago a ruling churchman published 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 create natural disasters. He hedged his bets a little but not much, " We don ' t give voice committing sin is the entire reason [for the natural disasters] but it ' s one of the reasons. "
It is very, very gloomy that we avow these types of people to have powerful positions in government. Unfortunately, it is nearly impossible to remove them from office due to fallacious campaign finance laws, excessive Congressional earmarks, and the gerrymandering of Congressional districts. Thence, it is critical that we prepare the long term process to gadget term limits for all members of Congress. Hopefully, by removing incumbents silhouette office November, a first step in that direction would be accomplished. Only then can we get some more effective and ready disputed point solvers involved with the nation ' s major issues. At the very ahead, could we at first off get people into office that are smart enough to not speak and remove all doubt?
