What's the worst that could happen?

John McCain recently quoted Tony Blair who said that “If we're wrong about global warming the worst thing that could happen is that we leave our children with a cleaner planet".

Well Senator McCain, let me tell you what the worst thing that could happen is.

The worst thing that could happen is that we leave our children a world filled more and more bureaucrats and politicians spending more and more of our money and wondering why we’re unable to save money. Those same politicians also believe they know what’s better for our children than we do.

I’m here to tell you that they don’t have a clue and the best thing that you can do for us Senator is to reduce the size of our government.

The explosive growth of government over the past 100 years has been unprecedented. Our government now spends more than 36% of our GNP/GDP.

In the manufacturing sector, we’ve been able to reduce costs and increase productivity dramatically over the same time frame. Government however, continues to grow. You would think with the advent of computers and other technologies our government would become more efficient. Certainly you don’t need as many bureaucrats as you did in the past?

But that’s not how it works. Bureaucrats don’t try to reduce costs and they don’t try to eliminate jobs. Not at all, they are all about protecting their own little jobs and their own little fiefdoms.

If politicians and bureaucrats were any good at predicting what the next great business would be, they wouldn't be in politics trying to spend our money. They would be in business making money.

Let’s take a look at some of their accomplishments:

Sport Utility Vehicles - This is a direct result of congress imposing "CAFE" standards on to the American Public. This eliminated the family sedan. So people who had never ever had any desire to ever go off road or to go four wheeling bought vehicles that would hold their entire family and keep them safe.

Ethanol – Congress passed laws subsidizing Ethanol in an effort to get our country away from oil. Well this doesn’t work. The latest reports show that we actually spend about a gallon’s worth of fuel to create a gallon of Ethanol and the ethanol only produces about 80% of the energy of a gallon of gasoline.

Air Bags – or do people forget that because of government regulations air bags were made much more powerful than they needed to be. The government required that airbags had to be able to protect an unrestrained 200 lb male. That little plan started killing small women and children in low speed crashes who unfortunately were sitting too close to these air bags that were exploding in front of them at 200 mph. So, after enough people were killed, the government allowed women to go get a court order to allow them to have their air bags disabled. They would have to go a repair shop and pay about $500.00 to have it disabled. Ironically they still couldn’t order a car without an airbag because that was still against the law.

Unfortunately there are countless more examples of government ineptitude. Remember Hurricane Katrina. I believe that most people failed to learn the true lesson of Katrina.

The liberals would have us believe that conservatives don’t know how to run big governments – as if that were a bad thing. Sorry but they don’t know how to run it either.

But the real lesson from Katrina was that government by definition is inept. They are a monopoly with out any incentive to get better.

President Bush fired some figure head leader of FEMA. But he didn’t deserve to be fired. It’s the equivalent of firing the coach when the team loses but you don’t change any of the players.

So please Senator McCain do not join with the Democrats and try to solve global warming.

Would you be willing to make a pledge that you will work not only to keep government from getting larger, but would you be willing to make a pledge to reduce the size of government every year? I’m thinking 10% a year would be a good start.

The best thing that you can do for the American people is to reduce the cost of government by making it more efficient and then get out of our way and we will solve this crisis just as we have solved all of the other crisis’s that we’ve solved in the past.