How snow removal tells us about our Government

That is an odd title I know but bare with me... After plowing for 20 straight hours I became a bit fuzzy in the head and started trying to correlate things together like apples and oranges for instance!
Open your imagination and consider this for me. Plowing reflects our government in so many ways, metaphorically speaking. Let me tell you how I came upon this nugget of incite. I had been out for about 5 hours when I noticed a guy struggling to get his Mercedes out of the snow on the side of the road. Now, driving a Mercedes we can safely assume that the man has a good deal of money. He had lost control of his car and ended up on the shoulder. Mind you this was the 3rd time I saw him on 27, within a 5 mile span. It seemed that he was going to leave his car for dead and take a cab or call someone with a truck or try and flag me down. At that moment I realized that no matter how rich he was, the plow tricks were going to swoop right by him and cover his car in snow, making it nearly impssible for him to get out.
And this is where I started thinking. The plow trucks have a job to do. That job is too quickly clear the roads to make them driveable for people. With the amount of traffic that 27 takes every day, stopping to help that one man, or a few men who happened to be stuck could be disastrous for the masses. This would cost everyone more time and money because the road was not properly done or done in time and all of the folks who would typically travel that road would have to suffer by taking a different, longer route or possibly getting stuck as well. Overall costing everyone more money and time! In essence, what is good for the masses, ie. what is going to help out more people in the long run is what needs to be done.
We plow right by his car and if he wants to get it out he will have to either pay someone to do it or... now this might shock and appall some of you... he might have to do the work for himself! Oh My Gosh!
So what about someone who cannot afford to pay someone to get his car out. And now they can't get to work and make money. Well, the plow trucks, in this instance consider the plow trucks to be government officials, cannot stop, spend the extra money to help this person while pleasing the masses. As we have seen, this would disrupt the protocol and more people would suffer for this one man. But who can help? You... Me... Himself. As private citizens we can help this person who is stuck. Really dig into your imagination and pretend that I am super rich. I could have made a call to a friend who has a winch and paid him $100.00 to help this person, or I could have raised money with my neighbors and helped out many people, or I could have driven my truck, at my own expense and personally helped as many people as I could. Of course this person could have helped himself if he were able... He might have to make some sacrifices, I know that should not be expected of individual citizens!
The idea in a nutshell is that many government funded special interests like the imaginary special interest that says if a plow truck sees a stranded motorist he must get out and help him despite the ramifications, are a waste of time and money and harm more people than they help. However, considering that one of the morning news shows did a study and found that Americans are by far the most generous nation in the world, why is it so hard to believe that these people couldn't use their privately held resources to help others?
The government did their job by plowing the roads, and salting the roads... keeping us safe from the evil that snow is...

The Players

Small plow trucks: Government officials, ie. congress
Big Plow Trucks: Presidential Administration
Snow: nukes, terrorists, poverty, general things that hurt the and their livelihood
The People: The People
Private Businesses, communities: Lobbyists, special interest groups
Money or contracts: Favors, re-election votes
Public Roads, Public arenas: Military, Cops, firefighters, teachers, govt employees


I'm not going to go through the explanation here but think about it for awhile. Just think about how horrible your commute would be, how much time and money would be sucked out of you for the many people who think the Big and Small plow trucks should take care of the snow for them instead of doing something for themselves... NO ONE IS ENTITLED!
Aesop's moral to the story: You are responsible for yourself and your family. The more you rely on the government the bigger the government gets... And the bigger the government gets the smaller your individual rights become!

A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves. - Bertrand de Jouvenel

A good government is one "which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread that it has earned. - Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) (inaugural address)

Quickie

I have what could be called blogger's block! What should I write about... How about people who sit on their computer on Saturday afternoons deciding on what to write on a blog that no one reads... Pathetic! I need a latte with no fat and no whip, extra hot in a Grande drinking vessel. I hate Starbucks! Have a nice weekend, your "Guru of Blogs" will be back next week!

Herstory

I love the feminist movement. It started with giving women equal rights to vote and own land and work and now it has turned into a colossal mess. Yes, all "men" were created equal in the eyes of God and therefore should be given the same rights as the next man. Should that sentence read, "...all men and women were created equal in the eyes of God and therefore should be given the same rights as the next man or women.?"

It has been harder for women to move up the corporate ladder than it has for men. And I think that women are generally stronger than men emotionally and spiritually! But for God's sake isn't changing the word history to herstory taking it a bit too far? Isn't having to add the word "women" or the word "she" or the word "woman" to every sentence getting a bit redundant. People knew what Neil Armstrong meant when he said "One giant leap for man." He meant all of humanity. I mean the guy just walked on the moon (allegedly) and he has to worry about some feminist group suing him for not including women in his speech! That is completely ruidiculous!

So I am proposing something new and I think that all men in the world and most women could care less either way. Let's change it to herstory and she and her and womankind! I don't give a damn. There are far more important things going on in this world to worry about, and offending a small population of women who think that I, as a male am somehow exerting my dominance over women by peeing standing up or saying mankind or opening a door for them is not one of them.

Men and women are different in many ways and that should be celebrated. I mean thank God that women don't look like men or the human race would quickly die out! I for one am a big fan of women! For me chivalry is not dead... far from it! I will continue to open doors for women, treat my future wife, sisters, mother, mother-in-law and all other women with the respect and dignity they well deserve. Not because I feel dominant over them or wish to exert my power over them but that they deserve to be pampered. Women rule!

Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult. -Charlotte Whitton

Women's liberation will not be achieved until a woman can become paunchy and bald and still think that she's attractive to the opposite sex.- Earl Wilson

In the Spirit of Television

In my inaugural blog debut I would like to discuss a topic that has been brought up by my fellow blogger Chris at You're Wasting Your Time. As of late I have been forced to watch certain television programs that I find to be the epitomy of the dumbing down of America... Unfortunately once they are on I not only cannot turn away I have to watch the full episode... Sure I check the guide when the commercials are on to give the illusion that I am disinterested in the show but as sure as I will have hemorrhoids one day as soon as the program returns from commercial break I am wrapped up again. I hate to throw myself to the dogs, all 5 who might read this but I feel I must name a few of these episodes... First and foremost is the White Rapper Show... Give me a break, do people really talk like that in real life? And I see no talent whatsoever in any of these folks, maybe because I am not a fan of free-style rap, but once it is on I will surely be sucked in by it's tractor beam... Another one is any of the road rules shows or, well I guess the common denominator would be MTV shows! I can't stand the thought of these shows yet I find them strangely attractive, like Episode LXII of Star Trek when the female Klingon whose forehead looks like a woman's hoo-ha... sorry, I made that up, I've always wanted to quote an episode of Star Trek but I'm not that much of a Trekky! Anyways, I could go on about all of these shows that I hate to love but Sweet Sixteen is on and I think that Angela is going to get a Mercedes for her gift... like an extravagant party with 250 people and Hoobistank playing is not enough of a present!


I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. - Voltaire