Learn to Swagger: Do-It-Yourself Government

[Kelvin Mace]

Note: This piece is by the same fellow who penned the infamous Tsunami article.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/09/business/mutfund/09essay.html

AS a reader of the Mutual Funds Report, you may well know that the Bush administration is making Social Security reform a cornerstone of domestic policy. After all, you're most likely an investor - someone who knows a thing or two about long-term goals and risk and the importance of prudent financial management. Which is why you may think that proponents of the new system are out of their gourds.

These critics may have the facts on their side, but if we've learned anything over the last four years, it's that facts aren't everything, and calculations that don't add up are just fuzzy math. The administration is appealing to deeper American values than prudence. This is the call of adventure. An invitation to swagger.

In fact, this management idea of taking the big decisions away from the so-called experts could move well beyond Social Security. From here on, for example, Americans could be running the military directly; after all, we could protect ourselves better than those tired government "experts." Here's your M-16, citizen soldier. Your fantasy baseball club is now running the Third Armored Cavalry Regiment.

David Allen
www.thoughtcrimes.org

The taste of Republican butt does not improve with age.

"The NeoCons can't be bargained with. They can't be reasoned with. They do not feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And they absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead.