Insights Into Round Squares
By: Doug Busselman, Executive Vice President
In his novel 1984, George Orwell drew our attention to government double-speak where language was turned inside-out and upside-down. Phrases describing various ideas actually explained exact opposites of what was said.
While the Orwell novel described a make-believe world, today’s events are eerily playing themselves out with dramatic examples of how what 1984 suggested, today’s Washington, D.C. is delivering. Thanks to this piece in the Las Vegas Review Journal by Thomas Mitchell we can better understand the concepts on something known as “Round Squares.” This is described as…
Or in more political terms of thinking as played out in the initiative known as Obamacare…
Un-election is the best way to demonstrate that we’re not fooled by the “just listen to what we tell you and pay no attention to actual legislative actions”. This should be our approach to deal with state legislators as well as those who have spent us into the fiscal mess that we’re experiencing at the national level. Unless we make these changes, we’re going to keep getting more of what we’ve been getting…more taxes, greater levels of government spending and expansion of command and control regulations.
In his novel 1984, George Orwell drew our attention to government double-speak where language was turned inside-out and upside-down. Phrases describing various ideas actually explained exact opposites of what was said.
While the Orwell novel described a make-believe world, today’s events are eerily playing themselves out with dramatic examples of how what 1984 suggested, today’s Washington, D.C. is delivering. Thanks to this piece in the Las Vegas Review Journal by Thomas Mitchell we can better understand the concepts on something known as “Round Squares.” This is described as…
“A round square is a geometrical, equal sided, equiangular, rectangle, every point on the perimeter of which is equidistant from its center.”
Or in more political terms of thinking as played out in the initiative known as Obamacare…
“They propose a law that will make it illegal for insurance companies to deny coverage because of a pre-existing condition or to drop coverage for just about any reason. Insurers may not cap the amount of coverage in a year or a lifetime. The law would put a limit on out-of-pocket expenses. Insurance companies would be required to cover, at no extra charge, routine checkups and preventive care. And in its latest iteration, the law would require an insurer to spend 90 percent of its premiums on actual health care -- as opposed to profits, administration, advertising or salaries.We also see this model of portraying one impression while actually performing in an exactly opposite manner in the case of our state’s freshman Congresswoman trying to make it appear as having responsible fiscal tendencies while having voted for every tax increase and expansion of government to come before the House this year. Opposing an increase to the debt-limit but supporting and participating with “yea” votes in the most excessively rampant spending session Congress has ever seen – okay, that’s supposed to make us think you believe in fiscal integrity?
And all of this will be done while reducing the federal deficit through elimination of waste and fraud, Obama promises.”
Un-election is the best way to demonstrate that we’re not fooled by the “just listen to what we tell you and pay no attention to actual legislative actions”. This should be our approach to deal with state legislators as well as those who have spent us into the fiscal mess that we’re experiencing at the national level. Unless we make these changes, we’re going to keep getting more of what we’ve been getting…more taxes, greater levels of government spending and expansion of command and control regulations.
Posted by Doug Busselman at 12/21/2009 6:35 AM 
Categories: Government
Tags: Spending Nationalized Health Care 2010 Election Taxes Growth Of Government
Categories: Government
Tags: Spending Nationalized Health Care 2010 Election Taxes Growth Of Government
We are amused.
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