Transportation Secretary Says Totalitarianism Works Better

I sense a growing frustration among the American people.  Nothing in Washington seems to work anymore.  Gridlock is holding up everything.  The TEA party is so frustrated that it wants government to only include people who all think exactly alike them.  Liberty to some means taking over control.

And within the Obama administration there is talk that China is better at some things than the USA because it doesn’t have to be bothered with debate, differing opinions or compromise.

Echoing the laments of pundits like Thomas Friedman of the New York Times, U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood argued Saturday that China outpaces the United States in building major transportation infrastructure like high-speed rail because of its authoritarian system and because the Chinese don’t have the Republican Party holding up progress.

“The Chinese are more successful [in building infrastructure] because in their country, only three people make the decision. In our country, 3,000 people do, 3 million,” LaHood said in a short interview with The Cable on the sidelines of the 2012 Aspen Ideas Festival on June 30. “In a country where only three people make the decision, they can decide where to put their rail line, get the money, and do it. We don’t do it that way in America.” [The Cable]

Of course so as to not get himself or his boss in too much trouble he followed up those comments by saying “We have the best system of government anywhere on the planet. It is the best. Because the people have their say,”

Now why would he add this final comment when obviously he was salivating over the idea of a nation run by only a few people?  Maybe he thought better of things when he considered that the three people who might run the country would be Ron Paul, Jan Brewer and Sarah Palin.

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