You Have Chosen Poorly, Governor.
My Governor, Robert Ehrlich, has chosen his running mate for the coming election. Her name is Kristen Cox and she currently serves as Maryland’s secretary of disablities.
No, I’ve never heard of her or her Cabinet position until today either.
She’s spent most of her career after college either as a lobbyist or as a bureaucrat. She’s also blind and has spent all of her government career on various disability-related commissions and panels and such.
Beyond that. Not much.
Well, except for this:
“We share the philosophical approach of empowering people,” said Cox, who heads the state Department of Disabilities. “When you give people the right training, the right support, they can live productive lives.”
So does that mean that all the folks who lived in America who weren’t given “the right training” and “the right support” didn’t live productive lives? Thank goodness they managed without being told that if they didn’t have the government “supporting” them, they’d be abject failures.
I’ll probably not be surprised later on to learn that Secretary Cox is quite sure she knows far better than I what the “right” training and support is so I can live my productive life.
She sure seems to be a huge step down from Michael Steele, our current Lt. Governor. And she doesn’t seem to be much different than every other Democrat who’ll be running for the position.
Right now, I’m not impressed at all.
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You don't have children do you?
Ms. Cox's statements were to be encouraging and inspiring. I feel that she intended to give hope and support to those who face challenges due to physical reasons.
What government attempts to do-is what men are expected to do-and that is lead and protect.
Further, the job of government is to teach it's citizens how to fish-not to hand them a fish.
I suspect that you and I have a difference of opinion about what the proper role of government is. I believe, to roughly paraphrase Thomas Jefferson, that government should do for the citiizens what they cannot do for themselves. I don't believe that government is suppose to lead in the traditional sense nor is it to protect anything but our physical safety in a national security and law enforcement sense.
As far as teaching people how to fish, I disagree to an extent also. if people want to learn how to fish, they will seek out people to teach them and set up schools to learn. I have a problem with the government deciding for us what it will teach annd who it will encourage.