Have you ever been to a public restroom where the toilet was left a disaster?
Can
you imagine toilets that NEVER needed plunging? Or that NEVER needed a
second flush? Did you know that's how they were invented to begin
with, but due to the government creating laws just to hear the clicking
sound of their pens, toilets can only legally use 1.6 gallons to
flush? Originally they used 3.5 to 5 gallons. Preserving water?
Clearly, no one is saving water when they must flush several times per
visit to the porcelain throne. As a consequence of this law, toilets
and bathrooms across America are far more disgusting and unhealthy than
they need to be.
This is a perfect example of how the
government creates laws supposedly to make something more efficient,
but actually accomplishes the exact opposite. In fact, (this is an open
challenge to any of my friends/stalkers to educate me) I
cannot think of anything the government has involved themselves in and
ultimately improved.
Can you imagine how great it would
feel knowing that education in this country is getting better? That
compared to the rest of the industrialized world the United States were
gaining ground, rather than losing it?
Back in 2005,
among adults age 25 to 34, the U.S. was ninth among industrialized
nations in the share of its population that has at least a high school
degree. In the same age group, the United States ranked seventh, with
Belgium, in the share of people who hold a college degree. By both
measures, the United States was first in the world as recently as 26
years ago. The Department of Education was formed in 1979. Our
world-class education system managed to stay on top for only 4 or 5
more years and it's been in a free-fall ever since. Coincidence? How
much longer are we going to lie to ourselves before we succumb to the
truth?
People who speak against government interfering in
our lives, in these circumstances, would ironically be labeled
anti-environment, or anti-education. They'd be ridiculed mercilessly,
if they couldn't be ignored. Absurdly enough, politicians campaign get elected on the premise that they will solve the problem by
perpetuating it. Is that not the definition of crazy? When there's a
direct unrelenting correlation between the scope of government
interference, and the plummeting efficiency of whatever it is they've
gotten their hands into, wouldn't the reasonable (ahem, sorry, don't
want to offend anyone, let's say logical... no wait... umm,
intelligent? Fuck it, BEST) thing to do is to abolish the cancer that
is that particular government program?
The way we create
and "solve" problems in this country makes about as much sense to me as
a doctor prescribing cigarettes to a person dying of cancer. "Smoke
two packs a day to make cancer go away."
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Trying to educate my cat how to poop in a toilette was a complete failure.
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