Sometimes It Is Better To Remain Silent And Thought Ignorant Than To Speak Up And Remove All Doubt

Sometimes It Is Better To Remain Silent And Thought Ignorant Than To Speak Up And Remove All Doubt

A number of political class spoken missteps recently have reminded me of a favorite saying that goes something corresponding the following:
" Sometimes it is better to remain silent and thought ignorant than to speak up and remove all doubt. "
Politicians tell the darndest things and linger to dismay me with their scarcity of learning of how the world and how materiality work:
- With regard to the recent Arizona immigration law, Attorney General Holder testified before the Senate recently, " Convinced there is a potential for severe a law on its face and then unyielding a law as it is fruitful. " No quandary here, as Attorney General of the entire United States, it is his job to make affirmative that laws are proper in light of the Constitution and other state and Federal laws. But, he did not close his mouth fast enough. When queried by a Senator on whether he had actually read the ten page Arizona law, he replied: " I have not had a chance to. I ' ve glanced at it. I have not scrutinize it. "
So, here is the top law might number one in the country vocabulary about filing suit against a sovereign state of the United States and he has not even scrutinize the law that he has a predicament with! And, unlike Obama Care ' s 2, 000 + pages, the Arizona law is only ten pages long. As a lawyer, I would be convinced he could have construe and unstated the bill in less than a half hour. Forasmuch as, he looks very ignorant on two counts. First, you would have thought he would have taken the short amount of time to study the bill before testifying about the bill, beneath bond, before Congress. Second, he does not viewing unbiased in this matter since he has prejudged law that he has not even study.
- Consider the following repeat from Joanna Doven, a spokesperson for the current Pittsburgh mayor, as reported in the June, 2010 issue of Impetus magazine, pertaining to urban farming: " Anytime you see something growing and expanding and there are no rules, you need to regulate it. " Piece acts as if government regulation is a good thing. The U. S. housing and banking industries are regulated by the Federal Housing Authority, Housing and Urban Development, Federal Enjoy Insurance Deportment, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Senate banking and housing committees, Commorancy banking and housing committees, state level government regulatory agencies for banking and housing, the Federal Reserve Board, the Treasury Department, etc., and all this government regulation did was engender the housing market bubble, and then chronometer helplessly, as the housing and banking industries collapsed. Just as a side note, according to Fortune magazine ' s May 3, 2010 subject, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac obscured a combined $94 billion in 2009. Guess regulation did not work in this case.
This is the alike government and the same government employees that are regulating the overall economy and we see how sick they are doing there. Unemployment continues to hover around an obscene 10 %. This is the duplicate government that regulates Social Security and Medicare, both of which are hurtling towards insolvency.
Also, in the June, 2010 affair of Impetus magazine was an article on the plight of Cleveland. One of the big problems, according to the article, is how insoluble it is to get a business permit and how hard it is to conduct business in the rosy video laden regulatory envirnment of Cleveland. As a denouement, companies, jobs, and eventually people have fled the quarter for of how difficult regulation made life.
Ms. Doven, allying most in the political class, does not get it. We do not want incompetent bureaucrats running our lives and getting in our way. Let the market and the buyer / seller relationship regulate itself, regulating something in that it is on track is just plain ignorant.
- Nancy Pelosi continues to testify to the wisdom of the big recite with quotes of her own related the following: " A bill can be bipartisan without bipartisan votes. " Huh? This was reported in the June, 2010 matter of Reason magazine and referred to the health care reform bill that was passed without a single Republican vote in either the Flat or the Senate. How ignorant is this bill? Consider the example where I certainly execrate a innate representation even though it has my favorite color, green, within the call. Bipartisan means that elements of both parties parallel the unfolding product, not just representative components, e. g., the color green. Does she imagine we are that ignorant?
- Late advance year a Nigerian terrorist midpoint blew up an airliner as it was coming in for a landing at Detroit airport. The only ground he was not outstanding is through his underwear drab failed to detonate. In reaction to the calamity, the head of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano, boldly stated the the security implement and stir for preventing horror attacks had worked. Let ' s see, the terrorist is one good disquietude away from downing a supine he is passage in and the system worked? The only way that is not an ignorant statement is if the system is built to assume a inaccurate thud.
- In introducing President Obama at the high profile validated signing of the health care reform legislation, Vice President Biden did not image that the microphone was still live when he mumbled an obscene word subservient his being as he shook the President ' s hand. How immature, un - Presidential, how un - leaderlike is it to drop obscenities in a public mob, very ignorant.
- A constant international source of salad days quotes is just about anyone in the ruling political hierarchy of the Iranian government. Several months ago a ruling priest avowed that the earthquake in Haiti was caused by women ' s promiscuity and skin exposure via revealing costume. Iranian leric Kazem Sedighi has preached about " the slime of homosexuality, the slime of promiscuity " and how these behaviors produce natural disasters. He hedged his bets a little but not much, " We don ' t add committing sin is the entire cause [for the natural disasters] but it ' s one of the reasons. "
It is very, very sad that we acquiesce these types of people to have powerful positions in government. Unfortunately, it is nearly impossible to remove them from office due to fallacious campaign finance laws, excessive Congressional earmarks, and the gerrymandering of Congressional districts. Consequently, it is critical that we make the long term process to utensil term limits for all members of Congress. Hopefully, by removing incumbents cut office November, a first step in that direction would be accomplished. Only then can we get some more effective and apt predicament solvers involved with the nation ' s major issues. At the very numero uno, could we at primary get people into office that are smart enough to not speak and remove all doubt?