Think about it. Is there an easier way to do nothing than promise every voter you lust after you’ll do everything for them? 

Well, you don’t actually do nothing. I mean, government has to do something. Like hold a hearing, write a sternly worded letter, throw money at a problem or set up a public relations event to show they’re taking some type of action. Yet, that action is the opposite (or end result) of doing something that caused the problem in the first place. Worse, every action helps the insiders and hurts the everyday people like you and me. 

Look no further than the Biden administration for myriad examples. But I’ll try to keep it to just a few highlights of the most obvious. 

Let’s start with the most vulnerable among us. No, this isn’t about abortion.
It’s about baby formula. This is government at its most obvious at screwing up a problem it created. Regulations have left the United States with only a handful of formula producers. Then the feds shut down the largest plant in the country because a few babies got sick. Seriously. It then took its sweet time “due to COVID” in doing inspections at the plant as it was shut down to get it back up and running — over six months. Yet, the government didn’t foresee a shortage. For the record, the company (which knows a hell of a lot more about safety and making formula than bureaucrats) found no link between its formula and the illnesses. 

So here we are today in the greatest nation ever that’s stepped up to every challenge in its history IMPORTING formula from Europe (yes, the same continent we’ve saved multiple times and continue to provide protection for) on Air Force cargo planes. By the way, that formula doesn’t meet our standards —standards set, ironically, by the feds. Now that same plant is closed due to real contamination from flooding, and the problem goes on. What do the feds want to do? Look into the “monopoly” of formula makers so it has even more control over creating formula shortages. Why do you think the supply chain is still broken?
It affects this as much as anything. 

If one contrasts the formula emergency with the tens of thousands of illnesses and Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System claims from vaccines versus the mandate monopolies of our governments, one can only conclude it’s exactly how they want it and it’s not about health. Plus, we know how most Democrats feel about babies. 

Can we talk about inflation and gasoline prices? You know they’re NOT temporary because Ol’ Joe said so and promised to fix it. No, not by using America’s might and work ethic and history of meeting challenges. Rather, by begging enemies for more oil and enriching bad people as well as spending more money than government ever has in history, in spite of history showing overspending is a root cause of inflation. Worse, they’re lying to us about it and blaming the oil companies — and soon will blame corporate greed for all of it if they haven’t begun in some areas already.  

Inflation isn’t increasing 8 percent or so. That’s not even close. On the things we need to survive it’s closer to 30 percent. And that’s without gas for the car, which is worse. A bunch of arrogant orifices who never go to the store or fill up their cars are the only people on the planet who can claim such a lie without a bolt from the heavens hitting them. Yet they do this every day because they know two things: Telling you what you want to hear will get your vote, and they never suffer the reality from what they create. Plus, a payoff of $1,200 a year keeps you quiet towards them, yet fighting for them against those of us who know they’re crooked as can be. 

And speaking of telling us what we want to hear, you’re going to hear a lot about student loan forgiveness as we approach the coming election. At this point, it’s just words because even President Biden-my-time knows giving up that kind of slave-level leverage over people in exchange for votes is a bad idea. That is, until it’s the last arrow in the quiver, which student loans still could become. For now, it’s just a teaser on a program which never should have been implemented in the first place. 

Only government could come up with a ploy to get unqualified citizens to take out loans they have no chance of paying back for an item not worth the paper it’s printed on. And then use taxpayers as guarantors. All student loans did was make universities richer while making the products of universities lose value — through, of course, more government promises for more factions of voters. 

If this sounds eerily familiar, it’s because you don’t have to go too far back in history to see the mortgage mess brought to you by government. It’s about to occur again, just with different causes — unless you count government involvement, which is always the main one. 

Everything above is still going on to this day with plans to continue. Worse, it’s because that’s how government wants it. 

Doing “everything” accomplishes only government goals. Even when doing nothing.

Craig Hall is owner and publisher of the Business Times. Reach him at 424-5133 or publisher@thebusinesstimes.com.