Children of the Sunrise
POLITICIANS
If God announced the great flood, Congress would call
a special session to debate a law outlawing rain. The bill
would be killed by the farm and recreational boating
lobbies. The President would go on TV and announce the
"Ark Plan" but cost overruns caused by contractor graft and
overregulation would delay the project until it was too
late. Two days before the deluge, mountain peaks would be
declared the eminent domain of our duly elected officials.
The rest of us would be left to tread water for forty days
and forty nights.
Now don't get me wrong. I think Jefferson and the boys
created the finest form of government on the planet. Sure
it doesn't work, but that's no reason to fix it. The old
saying is that "power corrupts and absolute power corrupts
absolutely." The brilliance of our system is that it is so
cumbersome and unworkable that it takes an "act of
Congress" for the politicians to mess with our lives.
That's good. The reason America is so successful is that
Americans can't agree on anything and people who can't
agree on anything never give the powers that be enough rope
to hang them. God Bless America!