Waiting for November...

My brain is in a holding pattern.

It's difficult to "live in the now", right now. I don't find it thearapeutic to recall and/or dwell upon;

the bailouts, which were an undeniable debacle...

followed by the ham-fisted mishandling of the Chrysler/GM bankruptcies...

followed by the astonomically expensive, yet infinitesimally effective 'stimulus' package...

and capped by the mother of ham-fisted, expensive, government debacles; the passing of ObamaCare.

This current political funk is further exasperated by the general misunderstanding and/or misrepresentations of Rand Paul's statements in regards to a specific aspect of the Civil Rights Act. (Essentially, the question is, 'Should the Federal Government prohibit private businesses from discriminating against customers on the basis of race?')

Rand Paul and the libertarian's contention is, no. The government should not intervene to that degree into private business's business.

Paul is in a camp that views the question as broken down into a more general ideology of, "Should the Federal Government prohibit private businesses from doing something?"

Whereas the other side views the question as, "Shouldn't the Federal government do as much as it can to stop bad things from happening?"

The media and seemingly the general public's general characterization of some of the basic tenents of libertarianism demonstrate how far the pendulum has swung in the direction of government intervention.

Which is disheartening.

Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you should do according to your country.

The British government is investigating the possibility of taxing people according to the weight of the trash they put to the curb.  They have secretly put microchips in people trash bins without their knowledge in preparation to pass the extremely unpopular tax.

"...yesterday, research by the Big Brother Watch campaign group showed that the use of chipped bins has quietly spread over the past year." .... "According to the responses from town halls, 2,629,052 homes have now been given bins with chips"

This is yet another example of how our governments have progressed from a representation of the people to a decision maker for the people.  It is embarrassing that we as a people have idly sat by while our rights are slowly eroded away one decision at a time.