<<<<Indeed, what foreigners envy us most for is precisely the city Mr. Bush loves to bash: Washington. That is, they envy us for our alphabet soup of regulatory agencies: the S.E.C., the Federal Reserve, the F.A.A., the F.D.A., the F.B.I., the E.P.A., the I.R.S., the I.N.S. Do you know what a luxury it is to be able to start a business or get a license without having to pay off some official?
Sure, we have our bad apples, but most of our bureaucrats are pretty decent. In fact, our federal bureaucrats are to capitalism what the New York Police and Fire Departments were to 9/11 — the unsung guardians of America's civic religion, the religion that says if you work hard and play by the rules, you'll get rewarded and you won't get ripped off.>>>>
This almost made me puke my breakfast. An apologist for the IRS and our bureaucratic sinkhole of exasperation. They are saving freedom, capitalism and the American Way? The author an extremely talented spinmeister, no wonder he won a Pulitzer. I would bet he's a member of the CFR if I was a conspiracy theorist.-gg- |
