Maybe we need a "dead person czar"

Check the link... Dead People Get Stimulus Checks

All the competence and efficiency of the US Government.

I can't wait for the National Health plan!

Who will be executing the health care fly-over?

Barack Obama has a vision. That vision is of an all powerful central government imposing it's will and whims on every aspect of American life. Things like a nationalized health care system and jobs for life at companies primarily owned by our federal government.

Some people think this would be a good thing.

These people would rationalize that since Obama's motives are pure and his intentions only for the sake of Americans who just need a little help, it's all good. On the surface it would seem so. That is, until people get involved.

As these programs are beginning to make their way through our legislative branch unchallenged by any meaningful opposition, let's take a look at some manifestations of this approach.

General Motors has already received several BILLION dollars just to pay it's bills. They need at least $8,000,000,000.00 more. How will this money be used? To create jobs. But not American jobs... Their plan to achieve solvency includes increasing offshore manufacturing from 16% to 23% of it global production. Hey... I'm a small government, fiscal conservative with libertarian tendencies so none of this appeals to me, but even the most dyed-in-the-wool fan of this strategy can't believe that US citizens want their tax money used to build factories and create jobs in third-world countries emerging markets.

But I think the best example of good intentions run amuck is the ill-conceived NYC flyover of Air Force 1.

Think about it. The idea is to have some promotional graphics created using AF1 with a Statue of Liberty backdrop. I have no idea of what such images would be used for, but that doesn't really matter. Whatever the reason, someone makes the suggestion. It's discussed all the way up to at least a couple of organizational levels down from the president, if not higher. These are people with no more than one degree of separation from "The One". They are in direct contact with people that are meeting regularly with the president to get their strategic direction. The president's intentions are good and pure, therefore, these director-level appointments must guide their team to create tactical plans to carry out The Vision.

The plan: First the mission must be covert. (I swear I'm not making this up... a covert mission involving a Boeing 747 buzzing around ~3000' AGL over the largest city in America) Then, we'll just tell the NYPD and someone in the Mayors office.

The point is, this is how someone directly connected to Obama's vision can screw up a simple task. Budget impact, $357,000.00.

What happens when the larger "good intentions" are expanded into multi-TRILLION dollar programs like nationalized health care? Where's the vision? Who will be executing the health care fly-over?

WH Press Corp today... what next?

It has been widely reported that Thomas Lauria, representing Auto Industry Task Force has charged Obama administration officials with threatening to unleash the "dogs of the White House Press Corp" on anyone opposing the Chrysler Bankruptcy plan (which includes, among other distasteful things, making one group of investors holding the same grade of stock more equal than another).

How long might it be before these guys realize that they could inflict true terror by threatening to unleash the "dogs of the IRS" to perform a deep audit on anyone failing to tow the party line.

Heaven help us.