Conservative Rumblings

Charming.

FRANK:  I’ve had people come to us and complain, “Well, if you do that, I can’t make any money.”  The answer is that’s not my job.  We’re not here to help you make money.  We are here to help have a system in which you will make money as an incident of your providing funds to those who will use it productively.

That’s a little tough to digest because Bawney Fwank speaks in bleeble-blabble 95% of the time, but essentially the gist of it is that he is telling businesses to shut up with their complaints about the government taxing them to death and levying insane restrictions on them.

What he suggests, of course, is that businesses only exist to give their tax money to Washington, where people will “use it productively.”

This is absurd. The government exists to defend the country, regulate trade and regulate currency. That’s what the Constitution says. It says nothing about them being the most productive organization, nor does it say that they should be picking winners and losers (as they did with the auto and bank bailouts). Obviously they are well beyond the Constitution in a lot of places these days.

Businesses should be given an open field with fences on the outside to reign in only grossly inappropriate issues (for example, I don’t think workers should be allowed to be beat with clubs on the job). Instead of a fenced in field, the governments wants to give businesses a cattle chute. They’re trying to stuff businesses in a narrow path and force them along a pre-determined route instead of letting them flourish. They’ve obviously forgotten who pays their bills and who is responsible for America being as powerful as it is, and it ain’t the Federal government.

This is an amazing insight into the Far Left mindset. We’ve known this is their idea of the proper place for private enterprise for years, but it’s gut-wrenching to hear them blatantly admit it, knowing that a) no one is ever going to hear about it and b) the country is STILL under the spell of the Obamessiah and most of the zombies will just believe him if he says things like he’s “not a socialist” or that he “doesn’t want to redistribute wealth.”

Ok, to be fair, he’s never actually said that last part…he said in 2001 he DOES want the Constitution TO redistribute wealth. But I digress.

The government is not fiscally responsible, obviously. If you are given the choice of having a private firm do something, or having the government do it, most people will choose the private firm. Rasmussen’s polls even show it.

For Fwank to just throw out there the fact that he believes businesses don’t exist to make a profit but instead exist to serve The State is sickening, it’s anti-capitalist and quite frankly something I’d expect to hear from a maniac communist standing in a park handing out leaflets and protesting The Man that won’t let him get ahead in life.

Instead, it’s a sitting member of the United States Congress.

The last frontier of trans-fat, McDonalds fries, have now become trans-fat free.

McDonald’s french fries are now trans-fat-free in all its restaurants in the United States and Canada, the fast-food restaurant chain said Thursday.

McDonald’s has lagged other restaurant operators in switching over to a zero-trans-fat cooking oil out of worries it would compromise the taste of its trademark fries. It has been under increasing pressure from consumer advocates and some public officials to make the change.

The new oil is canola-based and includes corn and soy oils.

I don’t want to eat canola oil and soy oil when I order McDonalds fries. The point of fast food fries is that they are NOT healthy! You don’t go to a fast food restaurant looking for healthy foods. You go there to get greasy, artery-clogging delights like the Big Mac and the Whopper.

McDonalds was the last one standing against the anti-trans-fat nannies, and now they have fallen. The end of days is upon us. Our society has grown so pathetic that now we are not even trusted to eat the correct foods, and we have to be artificially forced to consume foods that are “good for us.”

I’m sorry, but those of us who CAN eat bad foods and get away with it easily (fast metabolism, yeah) should be allowed to. I’m so sick of this nanny-style government and industry taking over everything in our lives. How about a little personal freedom? Yes? Maybe?

Obviously this isn’t completely political, but it deserves mentioning anyway in a decidedly personal digression.

I am an avid Netflix subscriber, and late last night I received this email from them:

We’re Sorry Your DVD Was Delayed

Dear Ian,

As you may have heard, our shipping system was unexpectedly down for most of Monday. We should have shipped you a DVD but were unable to. Your DVD was shipped today, Tuesday, March 25th, instead.

We are sorry for any inconvenience this has caused. We will issue a 5% credit to your account in the next few days. You don’t need to do anything. The credit will be automatically applied to your next billing statement.

Again, we apologize for the delay and thank you for your understanding. If you need further assistance, please call us at 1 (888) 638-3549.

-The Netflix Team

Now, the movie is only going to be delayed one day, and I probably would not have had time to watch it today anyway. However, unlikes many businesses of today, Netflix not only acknowledged fault and apologized, but then, unbidden, gave me a discount on this month’s bill. Obviously $0.80 is not going to make or break me, but the sheer fact that they did it is the important thing, and it is one of the most impressive things I have seen a company do for a customer in long time.

It would be have supremely easy for them to say nothing; I probably would have just assumed the USPS botched the shipping and didn’t get it to me on time. But they didn’t, and that’s what counts.