The Great Vice

One of the major reasons Azazel retreated to the abyss of blogging lurkerdom temporarily was that he re-discovered his rage. Rage was the reason for Boils My Blood in the first place and I realised in December last year that I’d lost the rage.

I’d become what I hate most. A sycophantic, unquestioning defender of the Howard Government. Well no more.

That’s not to say I’d rather see a Labor Prime Minister. Heaven Forbid!

Rather I want to know where the voice of small government has gone. Where is the push for tax cuts? Where is the push for less regulation, not more? Where are the Liberals in Parliament demanding the government stay out of their bedrooms? Where are the Liberals defending the constitution, the division and separation of powers? Where are the Liberals fighting to radically overhaul social welfare and get the governments hand out of our wallets?

I’ll tell you where they all are. They’re sitting in the Parliamentary Party Room providing anilingus to John Howard, the biggest spending prime minister in history, and hoping for a Junior Ministry in the next reshuffle.

It makes me sick.

Let me quote something that really made me mad today.

“The great vice of democracy - a vice which is exacting a bitter retribution from it at this moment - is that for a generation we have been busy getting ourselves on to the list of beneficiaries and removing ourselves from the list of contributors, as if somewhere there was somebody else’s wealth and somebody else’s effort on which we could thrive.”

Why did that make Azazel mad I hear you say. I’ll tell you why it made me mad: because it was spoken 60 years ago by the Liberal Party’s founder: Robert Menzies.

60 years ago he put his finger on the problem succinctly and brilliantly. 60 years on and nothing has changed.

For those sixty years the Coalition has been in power for 45 of them…

45 years the Liberal party has had to mould the government in our own visage and what do we have today? A bigger, more bloated, far more instrusive behemoth full of blank faced bureacraps with nothing better to do than dream up new ways to torture you with regulation and legislation, bamboozle you with overly complicated forms and burden you with nonsensical, archaic processes.

More people than ever receive government assistance than at any other time in our nations history.

Governments Australia wide now collect more taxes than at any other time in our history.
The inevitable drum of Statism beats on and the men and women in Canberra who’s job it is to beat the bureaucratic beast back are too busy felching the prime minister to give a damn.