CONSTITUTIONAL CONVERSATIONS
You Cannot Fix Stupid
by
M. E. Boyd, Esq., “Miss Constitution”
Like many of you, Miss Constitution received a letter from the IRS noting that Congress fast-tracked (no hearings) 2.2 trillion as a response to the Wuhan virus — a financial burden of unimaginable magnitude within sixty days of recognition of the virus’s potential. We then find out that the Payroll Protection Plan, as part of this sum, intended to assist very small businesses keep their employees, was scooped up by those businesses that had no need for it but had a first-rate accounting department.
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) for whom we have spent untold amounts of tax dollars, was caught off-guard and unprepared to provide test kits for hospitals and health care providers. A Task Force was assembled and two scientists, brought out before the television cameras as “experts”, provided fictional projections intended to obtain voluntary cooperation by citizens in their own potential financial demise and loss of Constitutional rights. Americans are now conditioned by schools and politicians that when the word “science” or “scientist” is used they must believe and submit regardless of the rubbish announced and the unexamined source of the data. Ivan Petrovitch Pavlov (1849-1936) would be proud.
Someone finally told the President that in our Constitutional system Governors and Mayors are responsible for the health, safety, welfare, and morals of their citizens. He handed the problem off to them. One Governor became so intoxicated with power that it would not have surprised Miss Constitution if she had dressed her aides in matching uniforms and she herself in black leather. Her husband was only joking, she said, when he tried to skirt her draconian orders. Another Governor sent the most vulnerable regarding the effects of the virus to their deaths by Executive Order while the beds he had shrilly demanded, and a special hospital ship graciously sent to him, remained mostly empty. Bodies piled up outside nursing homes in refrigerated and unrefrigerated trucks while this Governor paraded himself on television as a responsible public servant. When a reporter asked meekly about losses of jobs and income, he replied sarcastically that anyone interested could “go get an essential job if they want to work.”
Finally, miraculously, a brave female hair salon owner stood up to the insanity and was promptly jailed. For all this loss of Liberty, and other rights, Miss Constitution got a nice letter from the IRS, signed by the President, that stated she should be proud. I repeat, you cannot fix stupid. If it were not for the much-maligned private sector this whole thing would be a disaster of unparalleled proportions. We are now facing another such crisis to our social order and Miss Constitution is afraid that the same people who handled the Wuhan virus debacle are now making decisions regarding what may be the most difficult and delicate problem we have faced in a very long time. Miss Constitution is talking about the unrest following the killing of George Floyd by an arm of the state in Minnesota. The whole country is angry and demanding action. Miss Constitution would like to suggest what actions will not be helpful and what actions might be helpful. While no one can predict certain success in a time frame demanded by the public, following logical steps can lessen the mistakes.
WHAT NOT TO DO:
- First, do no harm. Take no action that is not completely thought through over time.
- Pass no hurried legislation, whether bi-partisan or not, as it is guaranteed to be the wrong solution. GUARANTEED TO BE THE WRONG SOLUTION.
- Do not keep injuring the injured by public pronouncements from persons who have no clue what they are talking about. This group includes politicians of all stripes, bureaucrats, lawyers, commentators in any media, ministers, academics, podcasters, social media fanatics, “experts” who if they were expert would have solved this issue long ago. Harsh and negative comments do not help. Half-baked knowledge is dangerous.
WHAT TO DO:
- First, get all the facts on the immediate case. Trust that we have investigators with the integrity to simply uncover all the facts. Finding facts takes time. Give those responsible in state and national government the time to uncover all the facts and then let the legal system move forward from there. Assumptions are often wrong.
- The larger issue is the impact of this tragedy on our society. There is almost unanimous agreement that this incident exposed a wound of great sorrow and great pain to a critically important community of our nation. That there is unanimous agreement on this point is a victory of great magnitude. We do not want to spoil this victory with bad policy. You cannot fix stupid. Start putting together #3 immediately.
- Bring together those in the private sector, not the public sector, both black and white, who have lifetime histories of interest and knowledge of both the black and white communities and who have absolutely no financial conflict of interest regarding the solution. This Commission should consist of representatives of the highest caliber and quality who care deeply about the country and who are calm, clear-eyed, non-blaming, and do not have a political agenda. They need to look at, among other things, what past policies, if any, thought to help have actually hurt. They will also look at how each community feels about certain behaviors and patterns in the other so there is a real sense of understanding on both sides that strengthens any proposed solution. The Commission will then make its recommendations having heard from the best, the brightest, and the most even.
When public sector policy makers are then brought to the table, Miss Constitution would hope they would remember that the building block of our social order is the family. It is the strong family that guides our precious children and to whom we look for leadership of this Constitutional Republic in the future.
Copyright©2020 by M.E. Boyd, Esq., “Miss Constitution”
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