If I Were President 1
November 13, 2008 5 Comments
If I were President….
….I would refuse to hire, employ, or appoint anyone to any office called, officially or unofficially, the “[Something] Czar“.
This steadily-growing use of “czars” in our government has always been offensive to me. I know, I know, it’s just a word. Well what if we had a bunch of appointed government posts that were each called the “[such-and-such] Fuhrer”?
See?
I don’t know why, but that made me laugh. I know I should respect it, because there’s a serious point in there. But, the serious point comes dressed in a tutu, angel wings, and a magic wand.
Samizdata did a great post on this, a few years back. Type ‘tzar’ in their search window.
Pastorius: Yeah, it kinda does
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For the record, I do not agree with the appointing of Czars.
I don’t know why, but the post just struck me as funny that day.
At this point, with Van Jones, Mark Lloyd and Cass Sunstein in office, I do not find it funny at all.
Sorry about that.