I’ve always enjoyed Ann Coulter’s humor though, at times, I’ve had to back away from it because my head was full.
Human Events Online (HE) had good opinion on her flirtation with John Edwards in which she used “faggot” as an inference to his habits. Oh, the uproar.
Her latest column deals with the Democrats’ justifiable yet sanctimonious outrage over conditions at Walter Reed and other military hospitals.
It’s a good article.
In it she points to a source that is at least equally culpable in the collective blame for the situation.
Coulter says, “…the problems at Walter Reed are further proof of the Democrats’ failed domestic policies – to wit, the civil service rules that prevent government employees from ever being fired….
Thanks to the Democrats, government employees have the world’s most complicated set of job protection rules outside of the old East Germany. Oddly enough, this has not led to a dynamic workforce in the nation’s capital.”
How true. Even at the state level, try spending some time in the DMV. Ever feel a slow rumble building in your gut as the orgins of the word “smug” gain clarity in your mind?
“…the problems at Walter Reed are not with the doctors or medical care,” Coulter continues, “The problems are with basic maintenance at the facility.
“Unless U.S. Army generals are supposed to be spraying fungicide on the walls and crawling under beds to set rattraps, the slovenly conditions at Walter Reed are not their fault. The military is nominally in charge of Walter Reed, but—because of civil service rules put into place by Democrats—the maintenance crew can’t be fired.
“If the general ‘in charge’ can’t fire the people not doing their jobs,” she writes, “I don’t know why he is being held responsible for them not doing their jobs.
“You will find the exact same problems anyplace market forces have been artificially removed by the government and there is a total absence of incentives, competition, effective oversight, cost controls and so on.
“It’s almost like a cause-and-effect thing.” Get it?
ara
