Oh, the Tragedy

SAM WATERSTON, of Law and Order television fame, is featured on a radio commerical paid for by the federal government, i.e., you and i. Sam makes a lengthy, passionate, and well performed plea for donations to the national park service, which is in danger of totally crumbling, according to sam. Park employees are being laid off, historic sites are not being maintained, buildings and other structures are in need of repair, all due to lack of money. This raises a few questions. Should the government be buying air time on the radio asking people for money, or for anything? Doesn't it already confiscate enough of our money, in the form of taxes? Shouldn't the maintanance of our national parks already be part of the budget, without having to ask for more from the public? The government is always on the radio and television, giving us advice, telling us what to do, or not do, like a big brother. Don't smoke. Get a colonoscopy. Get your breasts examined. Don't do this. Do that. On and on. Should it (the federal government) be doing any of this? (with our money). Maybe the thing to do would be to just print however much money is needed for the national parks, get it where it needs to go, and add it to the never ending always growing national debt - isn't that how everything else is done? We know that big brother is reading our emails, listening to our phone calls, and ripping open our snail mail. We know that they put metal strands inside ten and twenty dollar bills so federal agents can tell who has cash by using a radar gun. And we know that all over our media, big brother is exhorting us to do this, that, or the other, constantly. Had enough? then maybe its time to become a tea party libertarian! But are tea partiers libs (libertarians) across the board? Are they down with legal pot? Most of us tend to pick and choose which freedoms we would magnanimously,condescendingly bestow upon others. That leaves the problem of figuring out a way to pay for repairing the crumbling infrastructure, which must be done before we even think about sprucing up parks.Oh, the tragedy of national bankruptcy!