I had the idea for this big government cartoon after I heard about some state or city…..I think it was New York but not certain……talking about regulating table salt. That combined with the recent passage of the Health Care Bill made me think of a couple of things. It is my opinion that government will never be efficient because there really has never been any type of catalyst to require them to be efficient. If fact I would say that they are designed to be the exact opposite. The departments are given a budget based on political winds and if they don’t spend that budget in some manner they generally get less the next year so in order to look competent in this atmosphere a department needs to make sure that budget is spent in order to get that budget the next year and depending on the political winds possibly more. My point is this….Health care is important but given the inefficiency of the government system and the natural course of bloating that happens I can see this big government cartoon happening over time for nothing else than the need to spend a budget. Enjoy and have a great day.
“When George Washington threw the dollar across the Rappahannock River, he didn't realize he was establishing a precedent for government spending.”
-Harold Coffin, "The San Francisco Examiner"
I did this cartoon as a result of a conversation with someone where the basic result was that in a lot of ways the world seems upside down right now. Lot’s of things going on and to some, things seem a little over the top or out of hand weather it be the spending spree or current and past administrations have been on or the term “to big to fail”, “spend our way out of debt” or just a general feeling in the gut that something is not right and a finger can’t be placed on it. Anyway, I did this little guy as a result of that conversation and thought I would through him up on the Blog as a representative for smaller government. Enjoy and have a great day.