Pushing back against corruption

The indispensable Powerline blog has produced a post while on board a cruise that gets to the heart of the IRS scandal and indirectly at all the other scandals coming to light.  The woman in this clip, Cleta Mitchell, is a Washington based attorney who represents conservative organizations seeking tax exempt status under the various statutes that allow this.  There is a follow up article in The National Review online that provides background information about how the case involving the Englebrecht family came to Mitchell's attention, and by the way, why it should now go viral and come to the attention of all Americans.  One cannot imagine how even liberals, as far gone most of them appear to have gone, would want to see the kind of abuses now being wrought on innocent American citizens by instrumentalities of the federal government.  The corruption now rampant throughout politics, think Pigford I&II among many more examples.  In this Englebreht example an hones public spirited minded citizen, who happened to be a conservative, is harassed beyondthepale, by not one but several Federal agencies after applying for 401(c) status to allow her fledgling organization, True the Vote, to acquire tax exempt status in an effort to train citizens in volunteer work at the polls during voting to ensure that voter fraud is minimized and that each vote is a legal vote.  If there could be a more benign and public spirited cause than this one, show me.  And yet the Englebrecht family business and personal lives were turned upside down by government agencies harassment.  Regrettably it always seems to come down to  indifference on the part of Americans, often for good cause such as earning an living, but in the end we are now, with the advent of a totally unscrupulous administration, all vulnerable.  There must be push back otherwise the corruption gets worse and the consequences more dire.  A good way to start pushing back might be to join True the Vote.

The spiked punchbowl

It looks as though debt will be the overriding concern and problem for individuals, local governments, states and national as well reference generations to come.  Of particular interest in this article is the reference to the huge debt load wracked up during the "boom" decade of the '20's, which of course was the predicate cause of the bust of the '30's and the Great Depression.  Here we are 90 years later wracking up state, local and national debt at at least a comparable rate to the '20's and our good buddies at the FSR keep us funded by buying in all the debt the feral government keeps incurring.  Why isn't this a cause for concern?  It perhaps is in some circles but since there are so many governments involved in the debt creation business, all pumping out new debt at record levels, no one wants to contemplate the consequences,  It's the old spiked punchbowl metaphor -- the party's going full blast, everyone's having such good fun, no one wants to take the punchbowl away.