Pay the Piper
Chief Justice John Roberts shows good sense in upholding Congressional authority to compel law schools to allow military recruitment on campus. If you want to dance you have to pay the piper; these schools are eager to accept taxpayer funds but don`t want to allow the military to seek volunteers because of the ``don`t ask, don`t tell`` policy towards homosexuals.
This should be a lesson to everyone; government money comes with strings attached. By what right does government boss everyone around? By right of finance. Taxpayer dollars are funding everything these days, and, as a result, government is micromanaging our lives. This will continue until we kick the government addiction. If you want to be free, you cannot take government largesse.
Oh, I know; it ultimately is OUR money we are getting back. Still, we have built a leviathan, and have accepted the yoke imposed by that leviathan because of our own greedy desire to get into somebody else`s back pocket. Don`t want to save for retirement? Create Social Security and make someone else pay for it. Don`t want to buy your own health-care? How about creating Medicare, or a single-payer (socialized) system. Don`t want to pay for your own education? Create a government grant program. Americans have bought into this idea, the concept of a free lunch. Nothing is free in this life, and every penny accepted from the government will be payed back in other, often devious ways. College tuition aid has given us ridiculously priced higher education (by artificially increasing demand) and leftist education (because educrats, to be successful, have to advocate Big Government to continue feeding at the trough.) Social Security has destroyed the idea of financing your own retirement in many people`s minds; why have I been paying for SSN all these years if I have to save for my own retirement? Of course, the elderly all advocate Big Government, because they want that check to keep coming. They have to kneel at the alter, or go hungry. Government owns them. Ditto Medicare.
That`s why I find this ruling an example of eminent good sense; it applies the standard set by those same law professors who created it for OTHERS. Liberals hate it when the rules they set are applied to them. They believe that they-the anointed-should be exempt because of their superior intelligence and wisdom. Roberts just reminded them who is boss. They chose to create that boss, and now they are crying foul.
Furthermore, I find more soldiers far preferable to more lawyers; I think the wrong guys are getting shot at! (Sorry, Jack)
Roberts makes it plain to the plaintiffs that they are free to bar recruiters provided they stop taking money from the government. These are words of wisdom for us all.
This should be a lesson to everyone; government money comes with strings attached. By what right does government boss everyone around? By right of finance. Taxpayer dollars are funding everything these days, and, as a result, government is micromanaging our lives. This will continue until we kick the government addiction. If you want to be free, you cannot take government largesse.
Oh, I know; it ultimately is OUR money we are getting back. Still, we have built a leviathan, and have accepted the yoke imposed by that leviathan because of our own greedy desire to get into somebody else`s back pocket. Don`t want to save for retirement? Create Social Security and make someone else pay for it. Don`t want to buy your own health-care? How about creating Medicare, or a single-payer (socialized) system. Don`t want to pay for your own education? Create a government grant program. Americans have bought into this idea, the concept of a free lunch. Nothing is free in this life, and every penny accepted from the government will be payed back in other, often devious ways. College tuition aid has given us ridiculously priced higher education (by artificially increasing demand) and leftist education (because educrats, to be successful, have to advocate Big Government to continue feeding at the trough.) Social Security has destroyed the idea of financing your own retirement in many people`s minds; why have I been paying for SSN all these years if I have to save for my own retirement? Of course, the elderly all advocate Big Government, because they want that check to keep coming. They have to kneel at the alter, or go hungry. Government owns them. Ditto Medicare.
That`s why I find this ruling an example of eminent good sense; it applies the standard set by those same law professors who created it for OTHERS. Liberals hate it when the rules they set are applied to them. They believe that they-the anointed-should be exempt because of their superior intelligence and wisdom. Roberts just reminded them who is boss. They chose to create that boss, and now they are crying foul.
Furthermore, I find more soldiers far preferable to more lawyers; I think the wrong guys are getting shot at! (Sorry, Jack)
Roberts makes it plain to the plaintiffs that they are free to bar recruiters provided they stop taking money from the government. These are words of wisdom for us all.
posted by Timothy Birdnow | 6:43 AM
3 Comments:
Someone somewhere commented on this topic, "He who pays the piper, calls the tune." That is so true when you're dealing with any program where a nexus to federal funds can be shown. If federal money is involved in any way, shape, or form, the federal government takes control. All one has to do is look at No Child Left Behind to see how invasive government can be. In this case, I read where federal contributions may have only added up to 10 percent of a school system's annual budget, but the federal government got 100 percent control. The courts are making the same claim here: If you accept federal funds, you accept federal control.
Makes one wonder what else the fed has control over...?
Another remnant of the Clinton administration would be a prime example, highway funding. The release of interstate highway funds was tied to a contingency that each state pass legislation setting a blood alcohol limit for legal intoxication at .08% within a certain number of years. Many states (like my own) resisted as long as possible but the loss of billions in highway repair and construction dollars would have crippled the infrastructure of our state. The legislature and Governor reading the writing on the wall finally knuckled under to their Federal masters in order to get their turn at the trough.
I hope this is a sign of things to come from the high court. Old fashion common sense will be so refreshing to see coming from that corner of our government.
Finally, a good ruling from SCOTUS!
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