Why Leonid Brezhnev Still Matters

As all wisdom in the former Soviet Union resided in the Communist Party Central Committee - managing every facet of inhumane life across the eleven time zones of this vast Empire from inside the crumbling Kremlin walls - Party Chair Leonid Brezhnev was one powerful top dog.  From the wheat harvest quota in the Ukraine every five years, to the number of shoes manufactured in Kiev annually and to the length of women skirts nationally, no economic activity escaped the purview of the Dictatorship's central planners.  So then, how did all this government, all the time, everywhere work for the 200 plus million serfs?  Well, not so well actually - millions died of starvation, while the rest of the Empire's population suffered through the shortest life expectancy of any western nation, largely due to rampant alcoholism, social dependency and shameful loss of individual dignity.

Of course, President Obama is no Leonid- lite.  He doesn't think that only the Executive Office of the President should set the interest rate on every single student loan in America.  Oops, yes he does.  He doesn't think only the Executive Office of the President should decide what barnyard chores parents can allow their children to perform on every single family farm in America.  Oops, yes he does.  He doesn't think that only the Executive Office of the President should decide what health insurance coverage should apply to every single private business (including free contraception and abortion pills for every single church employee) in America.  Oops, yes he does.

Oh, did I mention that all the central planners in the Executive Office of the President work in Washington, DC, a separate time/space reality than all of us in the "real" world of business budgets, limited by actual cash flow, and debts that must really be paid.  Two examples of DC-mania - no local police could ever dare try to pull off the Secret Service trick of Guys and Paid Dolls.  To find government employees who feel no accountability to anyone, you need to issue them a federal credit card w/. no credit limit, a free plane ticket and a free week in Cartehegna, Columbia to get what America got last week.  Oh, did I mention that the unanimous response from the DC Establishment - Executive, Congress, Media - is that the Secret Service training programs may need to be tightened up a bit.  Are these inside the Beltway dolts serious?  The Secret Service agent who disgraced our Nation in Cartehegna, Columbia, who is unaware of this conduct's total unacceptability, does not exist.  Yet, the central Powers-that-Be either are so removed from reality that they don't know this obvious truth, or they think that we Americans are just too stupid to know this truth.

Well Leonid-wanta be's in DC - We are not Stupid. So, let me ask this - Do any of us wise Americans think it is a good idea to transfer more and more power to the DC Overseers, who just gave us the GSA Gone Wild in Vegas and Secret Service Gone Wild in Columbia?  I don't;  so give me back my personal health care responsibilities, while you'se guys clean up that cesspool of excess in DC.