Showing posts with label common sense. Show all posts
Showing posts with label common sense. Show all posts

Monday, January 3, 2011

Death of Common Sense is Killing America

Why is common sense so uncommon in government?

Candy Crowly, one of the few serious jouralists left in America besides Jake Tapper, pressed Janet Napoleonitano about the naked porn scanners in a recent interview.  Big Sis admitted that they have no idea what impact the contraptions have on potential terrorists.
“What we know is that you can’t measure [how] the devices … are deterring [terrorists] from going on a plane,” Napolitano said.
“Just people who just are discouraged, thinking they’d be found out,” said Crowley.
“Exactly,” said Napolitano. (Politico)
How convenient. A multimillion dollar scheme whose effectiveness cannot be measured.  How can I get a job like that?  No way to tell if I'm doing my job, so you just have to keep paying me!  This borders on criminal.  Roger Simon at politico puts the icing on the cake…
In which case, we do not need machines that cost upward of $130,000 each.
All we need are archways made out of $30 or $40 worth of sheet metal that are labeled: “Official Destructo Machine — If You Are a Terrorist, This Machine Will Not Only Zap You, but Put a Picture of Your Private Parts on YouTube.”
That ought to do it. (Politico)
You know the government stench is growing foul when even the press begins making remarks about it.

Union Leaches Kept NY City Buried in Snow


The NY Post says the New York City Sanitation Department’s slow cleanup was a budget protest. Businesses lost millions and people died as a result.

The solution to this one is easy. Fire every last one of those selfish bastards and contract it out.

Write into the contract that if the incumbent company tries this crap they will be immediately terminated and replaced by a company that actually wants to do the work.

Saturday, November 6, 2010

Common Sense as Rocket Science

I was enjoying a discussion with fellow Bloggers about irresponsible kids and their stupid parents when Ben Sutherland asked a simple question:

When did common sense become brain surgery?

Papa Silverfiddle has said as much to me on various occasions. I was talking to him enthusiastically about one of Dave Ramsey's financial advice books and my dad could not believe somebody was making money selling common sense. This was information he learned on on my Grand Pappy's knee. Nothing against Dave Ramsey, he is doing the Lord's work for those willing to heed his sound advice, but this is stuff we used to know and take for granted:

Don't spend more than you have

Don't buy more house than you can afford

Live below your means if you want to save money

If you don't understand it, don't put your money in it

Save money for a rainy day

If it looks too good to be true, it probably is

There's no such thing as a free lunch

You can't cheat an honest man

Horace Greeley was right: Common sense is very uncommon.