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One of the big objectives of "Love My Country, Loathe My Government" is to reduce the size of government so that politicians can focus on a much smaller set of problems and hopefully, finally accomplish something. Although I need no convincing that this is a noble objective, it is nice when a member of the political class comes along and proves again that they have no clue on how to fix the problems confronting the country.

Anna Eshoo, a Democratic Congresswoman from California's 14th district, has written legislation that would force advertisers to reduce the sound of commercials during television broadcasts. I'll let that sink in for a few seconds..... Let's see, we have wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, failing public schools, unemployment going through the roof, skyrocketing deficits, illegal immigrants all over the place, Social Security and Medicare heading for bankruptcy, no national energy program, Iran getting ready to nuke somebody, no victory in sight in the war on drugs and the Congresswoman decides she should use staff time and resources to draft a law to get TV advertisers to reduce the sound of their commercials. Never mind that many people ignore commercials, leave the room during commercials or TIVO through commercials, she thinks it is an important enough issue for Congress to address. If Gallup ran a poll on Americans' top worries, where do we think that the sound of TV commercials would fall? Would it make the top 200 issues?

It is unbelievable we are even talking about this. It is like being on the Titanic. The political class does not know how to save the ship from sinking so they worry about the deck chairs (or the sound volume of TV commercials). It is similar to the Congress that was in session in 2003, as referenced in the book, a Congress that passed 260 laws and 28% of them had to do with renaming Post Office locations. Bottom line: politicians today do not know how to solve anything and need have their responsibilities and budgets significantly reduced to reflect this incompetence, returning our tax dollars back to us.