Central Planning has been Brainwashed into the American Psyche

"Do you know why Papa Smurf wears a red hat?" Mr. Bill Jeffries looked for the answer in the Strafford Junior High history class. Clint Maples, a funny guy and friend, exclaimed "because he's a communist." That'....

Here we are in another presidential election trying to figure which man GOP or Democrat will best take care of us--babysit us. This isn't how it was supposed to be. This much power was never to be assumed by one man according to the founding fathers.

Remember this Smurfette from 2008 named Peggy Joseph hoping to find her Papa Smurf to help her get through life?



Look around, everywhere in American society from TV focuses on one person to lead the rest. That's what we have turned our president into. In all reality, he has become an elected king handing out executive orders like a tyrant when he doesn't get his way. Oh the people, they look up to him like a king. He is the only man in the country that is supposed to have answers about everything that effects this country. The truth is, it just wasn't supposed to be this way.



George Washington served honorably as president noting it was a boring job. There just isn't much responsibility the Constitution gives the president. Yet, look how much power the presidency has gained with through #44. The president lays out budgets now and begs Congress to approve them, but the Constitution says that's the job of Congress. The President no longer looks to Congress to declare wars before he drops bombs on foreign lands. When Congress is on recess, the president takes on himself to create new positions without Congressional approval.

The presidency has centralized power it was never meant to have. Then you look at the people, all eager to elect a new president every four to eight years all eager to hear things like Newt Gingrich unconstitutionally plan to create a colony on the moon. Article Two doesn't give the president this power or any powers similar to it. A president is responsible for executing the laws of the land, being the commander and chief of the military, and keeping Congress in check from growing to powerful. The details of the job are much more limited than what we expect from the president today.



I have to say Americans have been brainwashed in society in believing there can only be one leader and the rest must follow. Look around, that's how we are taught. We see it in TV shows--and the best example of that was Mr. Jeffrie's in Papa Smurf.

Americans have forgotten that states really have the power through the 10th Amendment. The federal government has limited power. The power is supposed to be spread out between the three branches of government and the 50 individual states.

Here we are in another election, and this time we have Republican forms of Peggy Joseph begging Newt and Mitt to take care of them in one way or another, just like the NASA crowd in Florida. There is no difference. Just like Peggy Joseph, the Florida NASA crowd begs Newt to tell them how government is going to put fuel in their cars and help pay for their mortgage by rolling out more federal programs. NASA for these Floridians is nothing more than another federal program that throws big federal dollars into the Sunshine State for an unconstitutional act of space travel--you won't find that authority in the Constitution. While these Floridians may not be the lazy slob that Joseph is, they still have their hands out looking for federal dollars. Few states really benefit from NASA in the ways Florida, Alabama, Texas, and California. What Newt says is he is willing to redistribute wealth from the other 46 to keep these people's fuel tanks full and their mortgages paid even though NASA has proven to be another over hyped, inefficient, expensive government program that would operate better in the private sector. Of course the federal government will never allow a truly free market in space travel. It will always be over regulated.

So like Democrats cheered four years ago as Obama promised more federal central planning, Republicans do the same thing this year. The American people have been brainwashed into believing central planning is the American way, and we must elect the right manager to ensure proper central planning.

Isn't that sad!