Actions by governments frequently endure long after the reasons for them cease to be.
Life Lessons From Babylon Five: The Guarded Flower
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
The guards who guarded the flower for 200 years had great salaries, early retirement and a great pension plan. And that was well guarded.
Governments are great at producing iron rice bowls at great cost.
Miracle: Government Feeds Five Americans With 2.3 trillion loaves and fishes.
China Virus Lockdown Relief Boondoggle Bill: “Biden’s bill would also send $350 billion to bail out states that have mismanaged their budgets for decades. While Democrats bill this measure as a plan to keep police, fire, and other workers on the job, it amounts to a federal bailout rewarding blue-state mismanagement of pension systems. The GOP effort rightly left this out, as it has nothing to do with the COVID-19 pandemic.”
Plus, there are 50 US states and 330 million people. Any money sent to states should be allotted in proportion to state population, not state mismanagement.
Don, my good lady believes strongly that Babylon 5 deserves a treatise pointing out that it’s one of the great epics of our time. Are you game. (We’re each too old to give such an effort the time and energy needed.)
BTW, at the end of the 2nd World War someone found that there was still an office in the French bureaucracy dealing with victims of the Franco-Prussian War (1870 or thereabouts).
I may do something eventually Bob entitled “Ah, Vir!”, Londo Molari’s advice to would be statesmen!