11-07-2009, 02:59 AM
Quote:Most of them are feel good positions, where the President or his cabinet departments appoint a special person to lead a project, and they are mostly harmless like the safe sex czar, faith based initiatives czar or the abstinence czar.If you are under the impression that an "abstinence czar" is harmless, then all I can say is that we see things very, very differently.
Quote:Obama's are tending to be more domestically focused and like the pay czar, are starting to bite into what I view to be unconstitutional territory.I think this must be about the tenth time we've been over this, but once again: If you take a *government bailout*, you no longer get to tell the government to screw off. Either you embrace your rugged capitalistic individualism and live or die on your own money, or you don't.
Quote:Imagine if the abstinence czar was given the power to actually enforce limits to coupling.Imagination is a wonderful thing. Once we're in the realm of just imagining stuff, why bother talking about what is or isn't true, or even plausible?
Quote:I am fearful of the increasing number of environmental czars, because one persons property is another persons environmental concern.They're called "externalities". And naive theories of private property are ill equipped to deal with them. That doesn't make me fearful - it makes me hopeful, that centuries of ignoring environmental damage to others in the name of "private property" might actually end. However, since the EPA has been authorized to deal with most of this stuff long ago, the "czar" is just a face you can point to. The powers were all there already.
-Jester