Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Congresswoman Bass Taking on Big Tobacco

Her constituents in Culver City and South Los Angeles are looking for stable employment.

The local economy is hemorrhaging, public education is abysmal, and the states cannot discharge their massive debt, insisting that they can pay large pensions to government employees who never did much to begin with, and now wish to get paid into their declining years for doing nothing.

In the midst of these pressing issues, Congresswoman Karen Bass is taking on. . .Big Tobacco?

The corporation that pushed a deadly habit has been an easy target of the federal government of a number of years. Granted, we all appreciate whatever advances can be funded to research a cure for cancer.

However, governments throughout the United States are not able to tame and neutralize a far more insidious cancer: the unregulated growth of government in the private sector, controlling how much taxpayers earn, how much more they have to spend, yet refusing to limit their expenditures to the constitutional limitations of government.

The growth in spending, the growth in government dependence, the growth of the entitlement mentality -- these are the cancers that must be eradicated in the body politic.

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