Mankind's God Blob......
Believing In The Blob
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The federal behemoth today reminds me of the 1950's sci-fi movie The Blob where the fog-like Creature seeps in under the door, over the roof and through the keyhole. There's no escaping it! Wherever you are, it will eventually get you. And absorb you. And move on to the next victim.
With that mental image in mind, meditate for a moment on today's federal government. Like a gigantic amoeba that first surrounds then ingests its prey through phagocytosis (home schoolers will not need to look that up), the government has oozed into, engulfed and absorbed all jurisdiction in all matters whatsoever, everywhere.
And, unlike The Blob, this scary movie it real! Yes, in our Bloated Land Of Bureaucracy (B.L.O.B.), the government has already seeped into every crack, through every window, across every transom and into every home in America -- into every bedroom, pantry, home office, toilet tank, wallet and medicine chest. There is nowhere it can be escaped. All must be absorbed and assimilated. Resistance is futile.
I spent a couple of hours on the web last night compiling a list of federal government agencies. You'll see that huge list below. And it's just a partial listing -- far from complete.
The reason being that every legislative, executive and judicial branch agency has a mind-boggling proliferation of offices under it to handle personnel management, legal and employment issues, benefits administration, interagency affairs, public relations, Office of the Left Adjutant in Charge of Procurement of Toilet Tissue for the Office of the Right Adjutant, etc., etc. You get the picture. I omitted all of those listings. To have included them all would have required more space than anyone has left on their hard drive.
Interestingly, as old-timers will attest, before the administration of Franklin Delano Roosevelt (a name that will one day live in infamy), most Americans never came into contact with a single representative from the seat of government their entire lives, other than to visit the local post office.
Today, the ever-expanding Empire on the Potomac is pervasive, invasive, epidemic. And, boy, is it costly! But, remember, all governments are, by their very nature, essentially broke. There are only three ways they can get whatever they declare to be money: Plan A -- Tax it; Plan B -- Steal it, and/or; Plan C -- Print it.
If you, Dear Reader, are still a part-time government worker (meaning that you still volunteer for payroll withholdings or contribute self-employment taxes under Plans A and B), remember that your labor is funding a monstrosity so incredibly efficient at plundering your fellow citizens that mere pikers like Alexander the Great and Ghengis Kahn could only marvel.
Yes, the government loveth a cheerful giver, and your donations continue to enable the existence and growth of the largest and most voracious, sovereignty-gobbling Empire in the history of the world -- the finest that fictional debt/credit money can buy (Plan C).
Let's take a look at this Leviathan. Where does it get its teeth? Answer: for the most part, in your mind. Why do I say that? Because many (most?) federal agencies in existence today are entirely unconstitutional. That's right, flat out unconstitutional, no two ways about it.
For example, there is no provision in the entire Constitution for the federal government to be engaged in any way in the education of "We The People" living within the several states. None. Zippo. Try to find it. Time's up. Don't bother looking. It ain't there.
But in spite of that clear fact, every weekday morning millions of yellow government trucks hijack millions of young and highly impressionable future production units and ship them to thousands of government processing centers where trillions of neurons are carefully rearranged to conform to patterns predetermined by benevolent Central Planners.
<Picture>Since "gubmint ejukation" has been a colossally laughable failure (as evidenced by one home-schooled scholar after another sweeping the National Spelling and Geography Bees each year, causing red-faced government educrats to hide under their desks), the only solution I can think of is (insert tongue) smaller classroom sizes combined with greater sincerity and, always of course, more money. Don't forget to vote for the candidate who promises the most.
But, remember, this is only a movie! It's all in your imagination. Since the Constitution is the supreme law of the land -- the highest law -- and since there is no provision in the entire Constitution for the government to take one thin dime (or other base metallic token) from the People and spend it on these Dewey Camp conditioning centers, the Department of Education does not exist, lawfully speaking. It is a legal fiction. A large, bloated and very expensive legal fiction. You see? Of course you do. So the next time you're stuck in traffic behind one of those large, yellow junior troop transports, just remember. It doesn't exist. Isn't this easy?
Ditto the Air Force. That's correct. There is no provision in the Constitution for the Air Force to exist either. An Army and a Navy, but no Air Force. Go look it up for yourself. See if you can find it. Time's up. It's not there. So when you see photos of an attack helicopter firing into upstairs rooms at a church in Waco, Texas, remember -- it's all an illusion.
The Frenchman, Montgolfier, had experimented with lighter-than-air balloons at around the time of the federal convention, but no one to my knowledge had yet attached a 50 caliber, air cooled, fully automatic cannon to one. The Constitution would have to have been amended to allow for the existence of a federal military presence in the air. But it never has been. Therefore, I declare the Air Force a legal fiction. Lawfully speaking, of course.
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