Is It An Emergency?

I keep a jar and a postcard in the mudroom for spiders. I can plop the jar over the little guy, slide the postcard under him, and carry him outside. If I let him stay in the house he might get stepped on.

I appreciate Representative Randy Feenstra’s postcards. This being soon before tax season, I note that the postcard was “Paid for by official funds authorized by the House of Representatives.” The funds went through an approval process, unlike the Covid-19 mRNA “vaccines”.

We get these postcards about once a week. I imagine they help with his campaign for governor. For now he should be focused on federal issues. But an election is basically about philosophy.

The biggest letters on the postcard read: “AMERICA’S TAXPAYERS DESERVE BETTER.” In recent years when we discovered that there were college graduates with enormous debt serving coffee for a living, trade schools were promoted as the alternative to college, ignoring the blasphemous idea of taxpayers using their own money as they saw fit. After all these years we are still put on a list for electrical or plumbing work unless it is “urgent”.

Is this a failure of the free market? No. It's a distortion of a market. A friend of ours was invited to speak at his alma mater and found posters beside each classroom door espousing the benefits of a college education. You’d think after hearing his parents wishing endlessly that they could get their garage rewired he would make the connection. But no, a continuation of a regimented lifestyle (student) looked so much easier than finding a job doing something and starting at the bottom of the ladder in an organic progression to a solid career.

I hear that without college the kids wouldn’t meet new people and discover new ideas. That is an insult to any young person. Does “education” limit outside-the-box thinking that can lead to people being happy in a place where society needs them most?

I applaud Randy Feenstra’s stated goal of conserving taxpayer dollars. I mention the career choice topic because it is part of a holistic problem of misdirected energy crippling our country. It is misdirected because of the inordinate power of people like Feenstra. A student who financed school with funds borrowed from a bank would be more likely to explore all options and either bide his time with other jobs while waiting for a more passionate interest, or make better use of the schooling. Federal student loans distort a student’s natural path in life.

The school narrative illustrates the disastrous practice of arrogant officials’ frivolous spending habits without market discipline. Foreign policy is mistakenly segregated from domestic policy. The money comes from the same place. Charles Grassley was the only politician who responded to my letter notifying them that they are violating the Constitution they swore to uphold by handing war powers over to the President.

Feenstra, using my taxpayer dollars, prints campaign literature justifying his socialistic agenda much the same way as NGOs (non-governmental organizations) use government grants to acquire yet more taxpayer funding. Vote for me. I’ll spend your money.

Feenstra’s postcard states: “CONGRESSMAN FEENSTRA SUPPORTS BILL TO KEEP WELFARE FUNDS FROM LEAVING THE U.S.”   

We gotta protect those welfare funds, eh?

I hear conservatives falling for this nonsense a lot. Drug testing to qualify for welfare. Not allowing welfare to be sent home to migrants’ families. Working to benefit one’s family should be encouraged. It’s campaign chicanery sidestepping the real issue which is taking peoples’ earnings in the first place.

At least the domestic fraud stems from an intention to help people here. US taxpayers give Israel enough money every day to finance 4,200 electrician startups. Think of that when you call to get some work done and he says, “Is it an emergency?”

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