Government Does Very Few Things Well

It is almost axiomatic that if something can be done efficiently by the private sector, local government will try to restrict it, tax it, regulate it or take it over. If local government somehow manages to do something well, state officials will do their best to make sure responsibility for that thing is transferred to them. And if, by some miracle, state government is in charge of a thing that is functioning properly and economically, you can rest assured the feds will conclude that, against all logic and historical evidence, they are the entity that can best serve the public in that area.
That is almost never the case, and yet, gallingly, as Ronald Reagan once said, the closest thing we have to eternal life on this earth is a federal government program.
Which is precisely why the excesses of unfettered Democrat rule from January 2009 to January 2011 was an economic disaster that dwarfed the reckless spending of the Bush administration by a measure unimaginable, pre-Obama. Take Obamacare (please!). If the U.S. Supreme Court does not strike down this monstrosity, in a generation it will become the untouchable bureaucratic monster of the 21st century — not unlike Social Security and Medicare — a massive entitlement program that will attach itself to our body politic like a barnacle to the bottom of a decrepit, sinking ship.

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