Posted by
Andrews on Saturday, June 28, 2008 8:50:52 PM
I have held my tongue long enough! It is time I was heard! I have been subject to villification and abuse, but I will not be silenced by them any longer! We must free ourselves from the grasp of big porcelain now!
Look in your bathroom, what do you see? Porcelain! And who makes it? Probably a one of a cabal of three or four companies. For years this cabal of big porcelain has controlled the market, making supply and demand a joke! And it is time that we broke this death grip they have on the American bathroom!
Sound silly?
Well, replace porcelain with oil and I bet half my readers would be nodding in agreement. So why is it silly when talking about bathroom fixtures and sane when talking about oil? What is the difference?
If the free market works, then it works for oil as well as for toilets. And I just don't see how anyone arguing against it can call themselves conservative. Yet time after time I hear "conservatives" telling me we need to seal the borders to foreign goods, or control the "big oil companies" or string up speculators.
Perhaps it is me. Should I find another movement? Is Pat Buchanan really the voice of conservative thought? Is it now the party not of small government and free markets but of... whatever else is left? Sort of a Mike Huckabee/George Bush Frankenstien's monster of big government, social handouts, and business regulation mixed with anti abortion, pro-gun, mandatory prayer policies?
If that is the case, maybe it is time to find another party. I joined for federalism and free markets, limited government and individual freedom. And I am afraid bashing speculators and oil companies is just not a good fit with that. I thought that was the province of liberals and the Democrats, but perhaps I am mistaken.
Well, I will see what replies I get. Until then...
DEATH TO BIG PORCELAIN!!!