Mover Mike

Two articles today just amaze me at the hubris of the US Government. First I read in arstechnica, Uncle Sam wants you... to explain this $50 cash deposit

...thanks to the PATRIOT act, banks are spending billions on highly sophisticated, government-mandated anti-money laundering (AML) software that will track every last transaction of every last customer in order to build up individual customer profiles and look for "suspicious" activity. And when they find some suspicious activity, they're going to want an explanation out of you, regardless of whether or not you fit any sort of terrorist profile.

Then, in Front Page Magazine, Washington Finally Gets It on Radical Islam by Daniel Pipes. The US Government has decided that there are good Muslims who are part of the "religion of peace" and bad Muslims who are part of the "religion of peace" and dedicated to terrorist activitities. The US Government has decided to spend our money fertilizing the good Muslims and our money dehydrating the bad Muslims. Right now the tab is $21 Billion of our money. Nevermind, that we have a war on drugs, but can't keep drugs out of prisons. Nevermind that we can't keep illegals from crossing our borders. Nevermind, that we can't educate our own kids. Now we have the arrogance to think we can meddle further in mid-east religion.

Now some, like Nouriel Roubini, think one solution to our currency problem is spending controls and tax increases! The solution to all of our problems seems to be less US Government.