Some workers always know more than the boss. If they were in charge, nirvana would ensue; the workplace would be more pleasant and everybody would be happy. And better paid.

Don't know one of those? Lucky you. Or perhaps you're the boss. Not everyone wants to be in charge, but it is a common affliction. The '"I should be in charge" disease is especially prevalent in those we've elected to govern, not rule, this great nation. They don't want to do what the people who are supposed to be in charge want; they want to be completely in control. After all, what do the common people know? Nothing, to hear many in the elected class tell it.

What, we're a classless society? Open your eyes. Too many of those folks and their myrmidons are out to save the world by eliminating non-existent threats. Oft quoted journalist and satirist H.L. Mencken, 1880-1956, said it well, "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule it."

How true. Think climate change as espoused religiously by Al Gore and the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Cap and Trade and health care reform. And don't forget political pay-back disguised as "stimulus acts" to "create or save" jobs. Can't prove or disprove that one. Wonder why?
The IPCC and Mr. Gore saw their religion exposed as fraudulent by e-mails that prove how scientific data was hidden, manipulated and changed to show disastrous climate change no matter the truth. Climatologist Patrick J. Michaels said of the exposure of climate change lies and fraud, "This is not a smoking gun, this is a mushroom cloud."

On the lighter side, visit the Web site www.frozengore.com to see a two-ton ice sculpture of Mr. Gore emitting hot air, what else. The hot air comes from the exhaust of a pickup truck. You can win a nice prize by guessing how long the truck must run to equal the carbon footprint of the jet Mr. Gore rode to the failed climate change conference in Copenhagen. Global warming, an ice sculpture, hot air, a carbon footprint and a prize. Some real, some false.

Proposed Cap and Trade laws have one purpose, to raise taxes to finance power for a more centralized government, can you say socialist, and that of "those in charge?"
Health Care Reform is much needed but what is offered now is not reform but is for taking charge of a noble calling for the same reasons as Cap and Trade.

Oh, pardon me, I misspoke. For the current proposals on health are not being "offered." Instead those in charge plan to simply tell us, the common class, what we must do and what we must pay. And what we must do without.

For they are working out the details in secret even though they solemnly promised that all would be done openly, on TV no less, so that all could take part. Now even the minority side of the ruling class is being denied access to meetings to decide how to purloin one-fifth of the U.S. economy. Those in charge will not be subject to the new laws. For they are the ruling class, you know, and they are working for themselves and not for the common class.

Yes, our current ruling class is spending multiples more than any who governed before them, using other's money, on solutions to non-existent problems. I guess it makes 'em feel good to be in charge of saving the world.

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