Old Hippie

czar - noun

1.	an emperor or king.

2.	(often initial capital letter) the former emperor of Russia.

3.	an autocratic ruler or leader.

4.	any person exercising great authority or power in a particular field: a czar of industry.

Obviously the term "czar" in the United States fits definition 4 above and I would like to know just how many czars is enough for this new, transparent president? We may never know because he keeps creating new ones all the time.

It seems to me that creating a position of czar of anything is simply a left-handed attempt to circumvent the Constitutional duties of the president and Congress. There is not one czar position whose authority did not already fall under a constitutional or congressional mandated department in the first place. It just smacks of a president usurping powers from where they currently reside so that he who rules from the White House can exert greater control without getting it from the Constitution or Congress.

Our government is not supposed to work this way. I never liked the idea of a drug czar since the official appointment of a drug czar in the late 60s or early 70s. It seems Richard Nixon coined the phrase "War on Drugs" in 1969 and what better time to create a czar than to handle this idiotic, useless "War". Nixon felt emboldened to create this term since Lyndon Johnson coined the phrase "War on Poverty" to gin up support for his incredibly naive "Great Society".

I see no point in creating more bureaucracy and pushing our country closer and closer to socialism or fascism or communism or statism or marxism or whatever term trips your trigger. America is a Capitalistic country and needs to stay that way. No country has ever created more wealth and knowledge and good than this country foistered by a climate of free enterprise and hard work. Why are we trying to change that?

Here a czar, there a czar, everywhere a czar czar. Hey, that's what we need now, a "czar czar". Someone needs to control and oversee all the other czars. God knows Obama doesn't have the time to do so. I wait patiently for that announcement.

Will the 4th Estate in this country ever wake up and stand up for our Constitution? Doubtful, in the near future anyway. Maybe Obama needs to appoint a Media Czar to oversee what is being reported on in this country and take control of information. I wonder how the media would react if their chosen one did something like that? Perhaps then they would wake up and start to question authority instead of abetting it. Or would they cower in fear of their signal caller?

I am sometimes a dreamer, I know. But I'm not the only one. John Lennon roll over in your grave. I just used one of your lines but not in the way you meant it.

OK, how about Dream On, sing for the years, sing for the laughter, sing for the tears. Sing with me, if it's just for today, maybe tomorrow the good Lord will take you away. Sorry, Aerosmith.

Alright, I'm just getting kinda punchy right now. I've been working long hours and lots of days and I'm really, really tired. I'm so Tired, I haven't slept a wink. Oops. Slipped into a Beatles tune. Sorry.

I'm going to quit now. Hey Peter, do you like this one? Leave a comment.

Bye Bye Love. Was that a song by the Cars or the car czar? Lol.

TTFN,
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