Oh ya, because they're doing a bang up job so far.

Oy vey . . .

I had another idea for my next post, but I must address this first: Jambo, you're nuts with this solar panel/wind generating SBA 3.5% loan deal. Not because there is an inherent flaw in that plan, on paper, but there is a huge, gaping, gigantic flaw in any such program as administered by the US federal government, especially THIS federal government. There would be "exceptions" for low income households to get them free; the maintenance , not to mention installation for public housing would be as big a financial calamity as say, public housing; and of course given it would be sold by Democrats as a "necessity" to save the planet they would opt to price control the actual panels, the labor, the generator, the engine itself ALL adding up to the private sector companies that would presumably turn them out saying: "thanks but no thanks, we'll make pencils." So then the feds would stress test it, need to "invest" in it, and presto the nationalization of private energy units. SBA loans may work fine & dandy in other areas of industry, but the feds involved in an industry which carries with it a HUGE political hot potatoe (my homage to Quail) of global warming, or climate change, or whatever these energy fascists want to call it now - NO WAY. I've got 2 names for you: Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac.

The feds need to be doing less and less with less and less NOT MORE! What is this nonsensical knee jerk New Deal carry over reaction to EVERY problem that GOVERNMENT and ONLY government should could and would need to step in as the only solution? THAT is not what this country is about. Less those silly founding fathers had it all wrong. I've got one message for the feds: get the hell off my back & out of my way, WE will handle our own problems. Especially since the government's involvement will only make any given problem more acute! Sorry pal, but with these guys you go in for a vasectomy & end up getting neutered.

And I might add, if the government wasn't so overly and overtly involved with curtailing domestic energy recovery and distribution via asinine regulations in the first place, WE WOULDN'T NEED PRIVATE WIND MILLS! I don't want them doing more, I want them doing less, THEN if after the government pushes back from their artificially created added costs and crippling regulation, and the market still demands private alternative energy sources, FINE, the private sector will go crazy with them without government intervention, but during the interim I don't need the cause of the problem being tapped as providing the solution!

And while we're at it I am growing ever concerned, and quite frankly flat out tired, of peoples whom by every indication are "conservatives" whether it be on television, radio or this site, whom continuously produce plans too clever by half, i.e. coming up with a "conservative version" of New Deal style policies (and again, it's not just you). That THEY somehow someway will be the ones to invent a plan that makes government more efficient BY GROWING IT. It is inefficient by definition. So you guys, people whom are self identified "conservatives" need to think long & hard about what your true personal political philosophy is, because above all a CONSERVATIVE, in the modern political context, should be advocating LIMITED GOVERNMENT. That is the GOP's chief problem right now, our leaders have compromised themselves right out of any core principles, thus out of any power. We can not win by defining "conservatism" as the Democrats wanting to grow government X + Y, and we saying we only want to grow it by X.

I love ya man, but I'm burnt out on so called fiscal hawks that attempt to show how clever they are by growing government "conservatively." You want to impress me? Show me a plan that slashes federal spending, regulation, intrusion, and encumbrance on the very people it is there to serve. Otherwise call yourself a progressive and be done with it.

Sheeeeesh.