The World Anti-Doing Agency

Somewhere deep in the hearts of Monty Python they must surely have a skit that looks like this comment from a USA Today story about the latest, that is Sept 13, Guccifer DNC Hack release.

Really, just the fact that this is still going on is sort of hilarious.  For the life of me, I cannot understand why these political entities don’t have their servers and computer stuff locked down.  The cost of not doing so is being written about all over the media.

But in this latest story by William Cummings there is a striking typographical error, or at least I think it’s a typo, that identifies a “the World Anti-Doing Agency."  I suspect that the typist merely slipped when writing the Anti-Doping Agency, but sometimes typos are a slip of the lip, so to speak.  It certainly makes sense when talking about these political bodies, i.e. the RNC and the DNC as anti-doing. Look at the past 30-years of the American political process and it’s not hard to make the jump to anti-doing.

There should be a huge list of bullet points for the Anti-Doing Agency, starting with immigration and ending who knows where.

Immigration-We as a country need to come to grips with this problem.  Back in the old Ellis Island days, people who were “undocumented” were nicknamed WOPs (without papers).  It is the main thing behind the term applied to Italian immigration at the time.  The name continues to stick, although the original sense of the term is lost and the pejorative term remains. Personally, I am not so sure we can deport 11 million people, but I am pretty sure that the American public has had enough of those criminal elements that keep coming into our country creating havoc.

Affordable Care Act-it’s interesting that this behemoth appears to be dying under its own weight.  What is to become of President Obama’s signature effort?  It pretty much looks like it won’t stand the way it was designed.  Personally, I think some kind of national health care plan is in order, but to create national health care and not include the insurance companies, doctors, and hospitals in wringing out a way to do it that makes sense doesn’t make any sense at all.  We can’t expect to dictate how those plans will work without considering the effects it has on those institutions.  In creating this, they need to talk to the subject matter experts who are involved in every facet of healthcare.

Conflicts of Interest-Most people would like to think that our politicians are capable of taking the moral and ethical high ground.  It would be very nice to think that’s possible. But the reality is that power corrupts.  Is anyone really surprised that the high level politicians figure out ways to bilk the American public?  Just take a quick look at what’s happening now.  Even at the local level, we have City Council people who tout that they have a potential conflict of interest and yet are allowed to vote simply because they say they can do so without being biased.  To me, that’s a lie.  There is no way that those people would vote against something that benefits their spouses.  Just imagine what it might be like to do so and then go home?  Yeah, right, I’m going to vote against a raise action that would benefit my wife and therefore me, too.  As the saying went, “Sorry Charlie” but I can’t believe that any politician would do something like that.

Ben Franklin, 230 years ago, told a crowd outside Constitutional Hall in Philadelphia who wanted to know what kind of a government the US would have, said: “A republic, if you can keep it.”  The history of democracies, and republics for that matter, is that they are very difficult to maintain.  Such is the way of these United States.  And when you take into account where our political system rests in this day, it is looking more and more likely that the second part of Franklin’s comment is beginning to look prophetic.