As I See It

John Stossel has hit the nail on the head, and it wasn’t a roofing nail, it was a railroad stake that most Americans with half a brain have realized over the past few months.  Congress thinks it can devise and make work whatever they can imagine, yet they could not even devise and successfully bring to market a simple pencil.  What audacity.  What presumptuousness.  What conceit.  What a bunch of mindless boneheads who think the country is great because of them and their predecessors.

As an American, I am embarrassed that the U.S. House of Representatives has 220 members who actually believe the government can successfully centrally plan the medical and insurance industries.

I’m embarrassed that my representatives think that government can subsidize the consumption of medical care without increasing the budget deficit or interfering with free choice.

It’s a triumph of mindless wishful thinking over logic and experience.

The 1,990-page bill is breathtaking in its bone-headed audacity. The notion that a small group of politicians can know enough to design something so complex and so personal is astounding.

There’s an essay you should read titled “I Pencil” on the numerous intricacies of the various market forces required to successfully design and bring to market a simple wooden pencil that millions of school children, and adults use everyday.   Read it. 

Pick me up and look me over. What do you see? Not much meets the eye—there’s some wood, lacquer, the printed labeling, graphite lead, a bit of metal, and an eraser.

Simple? Yet, not a single person on the face of this earth knows how to make me.

I Pencil By Leonard E. Read

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