The high rate of unemployment among teenagers, and especially black teenagers, is both a scandal and a serious source of social unrest. Yet it is largely a result of minimum wage laws. We regard the minimum wage law as one of the most, if not the most, anti-black laws on the statute books. – Milton Friedman, Nobel Prize-winning economist
"There ain't a dime's worth of difference between em, Hoss" --Waylon Jennings, quoting George Wallace.
So now the GOP house is passing laws in order to kill them. Swell. They are sounding and acting like Democrats more with each passing day. Okay, so the Democrats are hopelessly conflicted and rudderless. This doesn't really matter with the Republicans doing all your heavy lifting for you. What still puzzles me is why putting all our young people out of work is considered a good way to end the death tax....or maybe not because we can count on the senate to kill it. Sheesh.
Meanwhile, the media is pointing over to the middle east, and saying "Look! Fireworks!" Yeah, like that hasn't happened before. It's not that I'm unsympathetic, it's just that Isreal vs. Iran already sounds like a fair fight. Let them go at it for a while, and give me monthly status reports. I really don't see what interests are at stake for us. We already went the extra mile on Al Qaeda. That should demonstrate to the third world that we are not pussy-footing around. To have us get sucked in to every mortar shelling going on around the world is truly mindless and dissipative.
Hello, media, the action is right here! The government is doing more damage to us than Hezbollah's wildest dreams! How about defending the constitution for a change? How about picking on a few national tragedies that truly create division, poverty, strife, and dependence?
The saddest thing about 9/11 is that we gave up so much freedom in exchange for a security that does not and can not ever exist. By defeating Al Qaeda we did all that was possible and necessary. Every time a new provision of the Patriot Act is implemented we give the enemies of freedom another sign that they are having an effect. Let's get off this hellbound train before it consumes us all.
Meanwhile, all we are getting from our representation is warmed over socialism as a mechanism to fool the people. Hard to be a political junkie in this environment.
I'm sure I'll find more to remark upon soon, but pobably not before election season. Even the thought of that is a little demoralizing right now. I predict the GOP in a yawner followed by more of the same. As I've said before, the only thing worse would be a Democrat win, but now more than ever, I don't see a dime's worth of difference to be had.
