The Legislator Virus - Fatal to Local Control

I received a letter from Dana Hanley (PrincipledDiscovery.com) regarding an effort in Nebraska to force a change for apparently no good reason... (Nebraska LB-1157)

"This bill changes Nebraska's current testing model which is the last one in the nation truly exemplifying local control of education in favor of the same rigid standardized testing adopted in other states."

Click here to read Dana's full article

Thank you Dana, for the heads up. Is this yet another example of legislators, driven to fiddle and twiddle with our laws and our lives for no good reason? You know... other than to feel a sense of justification for their presence.

This phenomenon is real, and it is the reason our law books have swelled beyond the ability of common men and women to deal with one another according to common sense. It is the reason that our tax code cannot be consistently interpreted even by those charged with enforcing it.

This self-justifying urge to legislate is the antithesis of common sense. It is like a virus that marches from cell to cell, infecting, multiplying, destroying as it spreads into yet uninfected areas. The "Legislator Virus" is related, if not genetically identical, to the liberal scourge. Those left-stumbling zealots who's ideal is to replace our freedom to live under self-determination, with the heavy hand of centralized government. Socialism in capitalist's clothing, no less.

Give it some thought fellow Nebraskans. Let your legislators know (at all levels), that it is often best to just leave well-enough alone, and that a busy legislator is not necessarily a prudent one. When we find that we have elected someone to office that simply cannot resist the urge to legislate for the sake of legislating, then we must recognize the symptoms of the "Legislator Virus", for which the only cure is to un-elect them.

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