More reasons why I was right about the bailout...

I was reading some interesting commentary on Obama's speech to the Muslim world by an Arab woman here. After I was done with the article, I fished around israpundit.com a little and came upon this video. This was filmed back in early May and is a fascinating look into your government in action. The video mostly speaks for itself, but this wouldn't be much of a blog if I didn't comment, so I will.

This is not about Bush. This is not about Obama. It's not about Left or Right. This is about the inherent dangers of a governing body moving too quickly. 

Thomas Paine said,  "Government, even in it's best state, is but a necessary evil; in it's worst state, an intolerable one." Man has always had a ruled/ruling mentality. It's is part of our dichotomous nature to want power and to want to let others take that power. This video shows us a small part of the large cost that that nature exacts on us.

 An unfettered government will always move toward the enslavement of it's people. Whether it's through might and arms or (as in this case) through economic misdeed or mishandling. Both Bush and Obama, the Right and the Left, have severely unfettered a government and we move ever closer to enslavement as a result.

The numbers in this video are staggering. Trillions of dollars ($30,000 for every man, woman, and child in America?) have been printed and spent and this General Inspector could not even give the barest of details as to where it is. Our economy has been devalued by a trillion dollars, and we don't know where it went?!?!? 

Further, I watch this exchange and I am struck at how terribly common and low these people seem to me. Inspector Coleman is on the hot-seat and is doing her level best to evade the questions posed to her by Representative Grayson. These people control tons of our money and run large chunks of our infrastructure and they can't even have the decency to just talk straight. The whole 5 minutes and 42 seconds should have been handled like this...

Grayson: "You know all that cash we had printed last year. Um...where is it?"

Coleman: "I don't know."

Grayson: "It's kind of your job to know, right?"

Coleman: "Yes."

Grayson: "Then, what's say you run on out and find out for America, where it's money is, eh?"

Coleman: "Ok"

Grayson: "Cool. And if you could do it kind of quickly, because we're in this recession and all, that would be great!"

Coleman: "Ok, I'll try and have that on your desk by Monday morning."

Grayson: "Super-great. I'm done."

Instead, these people have to dance around each other coming no closer to the truth then when they started, on our dime. People wonder why I am so mistrustful of government...

...it's because government is run by those that I wouldn't trust my cats with. And I don't really like cats.