Limited Government
The oil spill in the Gulf is a perfect example of how big government is unable to function effectively in some, if not most, instances of disaster whether natural or human caused. In this respect the Gulf disaster is similar to hurricane Katrina.
The lesson to be learned from this should be that government is comprised of, well, humans. And humans, either individually or collectively aggregated as big government, are not gods or super heroes no matter what Progressives and other advocates of command and control top down statist government fervently believe.
This lesson is ignored by statists on both sides of the political aisle. And, in the fog of political war, those in favor of a smaller government have not opened discussion on this or have been ignored, by the state run media, or drowned out by cross talk from the far left.
So what to do about future oil spills and other such disasters? A good start, as some suggest, would be for Obama to appoint an oil spill czar who, unlike the gaggle of spurious czars and czarinas already in place within the regime, would for each specific disaster be delegated absolute power to cut through red tape (e.g. EPA vs. Corp of Engineers). This idea of appointing an "incident manager" to coordinate all aspects of a particular emergency up to and including writing a post incident summary of lessons learned and recommendations is a best practice accepted by those involved in disaster mitigation and recovery.
The problem with this is Presidents, especially this one, don't like to follow best practices spawned in the evil private sector. More importantly their egos do not permit them to share the spotlight much less power.
The lesson to be learned from this should be that government is comprised of, well, humans. And humans, either individually or collectively aggregated as big government, are not gods or super heroes no matter what Progressives and other advocates of command and control top down statist government fervently believe.
This lesson is ignored by statists on both sides of the political aisle. And, in the fog of political war, those in favor of a smaller government have not opened discussion on this or have been ignored, by the state run media, or drowned out by cross talk from the far left.
So what to do about future oil spills and other such disasters? A good start, as some suggest, would be for Obama to appoint an oil spill czar who, unlike the gaggle of spurious czars and czarinas already in place within the regime, would for each specific disaster be delegated absolute power to cut through red tape (e.g. EPA vs. Corp of Engineers). This idea of appointing an "incident manager" to coordinate all aspects of a particular emergency up to and including writing a post incident summary of lessons learned and recommendations is a best practice accepted by those involved in disaster mitigation and recovery.
The problem with this is Presidents, especially this one, don't like to follow best practices spawned in the evil private sector. More importantly their egos do not permit them to share the spotlight much less power.
posted by tovarich at 12:29 PM
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