Tidings Of Joy

For starters, even if DC’s sociopaths and Keynesians don’t shut themselves down on Tuesday, one of their most dictatorial and inept agencies has already "partial[ly]" closed. "[A]fter lawmakers failed to reach a last-minute agreement on a stopgap funding measure for … the FAA [, it] will be unable to collect federal taxes on airline tickets." Alas, it is thereby "losing" $30 million daily (as if our money ever belonged to it in the first place) and "must furlough 4,000 federal workers [sic for ‘leeches’] … without pay[!!!!!!!!]." What’d I tell you? Happy dance!

Of course, temporarily ridding us of 4000 parasites is barely a beginning: the monstrous, murderous FAA with its "requested" budget of $9.8 billion made "work" for 47,456 sponges in FY10. And their incompetence, irresponsibility, and sheer cussedness are legendary: recall that they loudly and frequently asserted their exclusive authority to safeguard aviation’s passengers – until their hidebound orders to cooperate with hijackers killed almost 3000 people one tragic morning ten years ago. And so Congress created a second but equally incompetent, irresponsible, and utterly cussed agency to "protect" passengers via sexual assault: the Transportation Security Administration.

My blissful gyrations at the FAA’s cutbacks left me nigh dizzy. Then I stumbled across another joyous revelation: a state representative in Georgia "introduced House Bill 875 in November 2009. The first two sentences of that proposed legislation, better known as the ‘Right to Travel Act,’ summarize what the bill is about: ‘Free people have a common law and constitutional right to travel on the roads and highways that are provided by their government for that purpose. Licensing of drivers cannot be required of free people because taking on the restrictions of a license requires the surrender of an inalienable right.’" Whoa!

Incredibly, it gets better: "other groups around the country are pushing to introduce similar bills to their state legislatures…," according to the National Motorists Association, Yeehaw! Imagine life without the tyranny of driver’s licenses and all the costs, hassles and silly demands for ID concomitant with them! Plus, one of Leviathan’s most cherished and perpetual schemes, that of turning licenses into a national ID, would immediately crash and burn.

Unfortunately, licenses are one of the chains the slaves most closely clutch: virtually everyone swallows the State’s baloney that its permits "protect" us rather than enrich itself (if you don’t believe me, check out the readers’ comments here, or simply announce at your next barbeque that we should eliminate licensing – and then take cover). Apparently these wingnuts have never driven in New York City, Boston or Florida, nor lost anyone to the horrific carnage of government-licensed drivers on government-managed roads.

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