geomar's Journal

VIRGINIA IS ABOUT TO FIND OUT JUST HOW MUCH POLITICAL APPLE POLISHING HAS COST THE STATES BUDGET.

THEY ARE LOOKING INTO EXISTING LAWS TO FIND WHAT CAN BE CUT THAT HAS BEEN TOO EXPENSIVE.

IN THE PAST 10 OR SO YEARS IT HAS BEEN IN VOGUE AND POPULAR AMONG POLITITIANS AND LAWMAKERS TO CREATE LAWS THAT MAKE THEM LOOK GOOD BUT EITHER COST TOO MUCH TO ENFORCE OR REALLY DON'T DO ANYTHING TO BENEFIT ANYONE.

MOST OF THESE LAWS ARE “GET TOUGH ON CRIME” BILLS AND GOVERNMENT REGULATION OF BUSINESSES.

ANY SHERIFFS OR STATE TROOPER ORGANIZATION WILL TELL YOU THAT MONITORING EX-FELONS HAS NOT PREVENTED MANY CRIMES!!!  AND ANYONE IN BUSINESS FOR THEMSELVES WILL TELL YOU THAT THE MORE THEY ARE REGULATED BY GOVERNMENT THE LESS PROFIT AND THE HIGHER THE PRICES.

AS VIRGINIA CLOSES PRISONS AND CHOPS LAWS WE NEED TO SEE IF THIS IS GOING TO BECOME A NATIONAL TREND.  KEEPING PRISONS FROM FALLING INTO MASS RIOTS AND ANARCHY COST MONEY, ARE WE WILLING TO SINK INTO THAT HORROR AND LOOSE OUR CIVILITY AS A SOCIETY AGAIN?

MICRO MANAGING THE FREE ENTERPRISE SYSTEM WITH INTRUSIVE GOVERNMENT REGULATIONS, INHIBITS CREATIVITY AND GROWTH AND REVERSES ECONOMIC PROSPERITY.  ARE WE WILLING TO BE PLUNGED INTO AN ECONOMIC DARK AGES BECAUSE SOME POLITITIAN MADE HIMSELF LOOK GOOD BY INSTITUTING USLESS BILLS AND LAWS?

I CERTAINLY HOPE WE CAN SURVIVE THIS EVENT SAFELY.  IF WE CAN LEARN ANYTHING FROM HISTORY, LET US LEARN FROM THE DEADLY PRISION RIOTS OF THE 1970’S.  THE HUMILIATION OF DISCOVERING OUR BROAD SOCIAL IN-HUMANENESS WAS ONE OF THIS COUNTY’S MOST SHAMEFULL LESSONS.  AS WE TREAT THE PRISONER SO WE TREAT OURSELVES, BECAUSE SOMEDAY MOST OF THEM WILL RETURN TO SOCIETY AND MOVE IN NEXT DOOR.  WHAT MORAL, ETHICAL AND MENTAL CONDITION DO WE WANT THOSE NEW NEIGHBORS TO BE IN?

THE SAME FOLLOWS FOR BUSINESS OWNERS AND CORPORATE HEADS, THEY HAVE FORGOTTEN GOOD MORALS INORDER TO SURVIVE THE INTRUSION OF MASSIVE GOVERNMENT REGULATION.  THE RESULT IS THAT WE HAVE BRED A CLASS OF BUSINESS LEADERS THAT HAVE NO SHAME OR MORAL CONSIOUS.  BIG GOVERNMENT HISTORICALLY PRODUCES BIG CORRUPTION.  IT ALWAYS HAS AND ALWAYS WILL.

INSTEAD OF MORE INCARCERATION AND REGULATION HOW ABOUT MORE HONESTY AND MORAL COMMITMENT.  IT’S NOT ABOUT GETTING RELIGIOUS, THOUGH RELIGION TEACHES US GOOD MORALS, IT IS ABOUT COMMITTING TO THOSE MORALS EVEN TO OUR OWN PERSONAL HURT.  HOW ABOUT THE MORAL OF PAYING PERSONALLY FOR A WRONG INSTEAD OF HIGH PRICED INSURANCE POLICIES, AND LAWSUITS?

THE PURPOSE OF ANY REFORM IS NOT JUST A REVIVAL OF RELIGION, BUT A RETURN TO BASIC MORAL PRINCIPALS.  THESE PRINCIPALS THEN BECOME THE FURTILE SEED BED OF SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC PROSPERITY.  IN OTHER WORDS, NO GOOD MORALS, NO GOOD FORTUNE.